Upper Hungary & Nyatria

Here we have a comparative backwater, though there were overarching conflicts taking place all around the area during the Thirty Years War and the Ottoman encroachment.  I was able to find a reference that much of this area was a big forested area in the time period, surrounding the Cerova Highlands, but that was only one sentence.  There is some trade through the area, and some mining of silver and copper, so obviously a campaign could be built around cleaning out some secret goblin-kobald mine west of Dobsina, discovering they were digging a rich vein of silver and then allowing the party to take steps to continue exploiting it.

Still, life here consists of a mix of rural agriculture, minor commercial activity, a staunch religious tradition (a mix of Catholic and Lutheran), with an outlying threat that wouldn't be likely to materialise.

West, then, into the heart of the modern day Banska Bystrica province.