. . . when I played MM6 for the first time, I was exploring the west of Ironfist, and I blundered across the border into Mire of the Damned. I departed a Damned sight faster than I entered, pursued by a horde of ghosts and skeletons. After a long trek back to the Temple to get my characters uncursed and my dead sorcerer Raised, I returned to the west of Ironfist, went north instead of west, and found the cannibals etc. in Bootleg Bay a lot easier to cope with.I should add that I'd also received a severe drubbing in Corlagon's Estate. The only places in Ironfist that I managed to cope with on my first visit were the Temple of Baa and Dragoons' Caverns, and I found neither of those easy.