Funcom has posted a new developer journal preview for The Secret World over at MMORPG.som. The latest journal takes a trip to the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania for a look at the new Besieged Farmlands, a haunted location filled with all the things you would expect to find in Transylvania – vampires, werewolves and other monsters.

Here there was an understanding between man and the supernatural, but times have violently changed. The players arrive to find the valley a battleground, wreathed in ominous smoke, fields trampled to mud. An army of vampires has descended on Harbaburesti, and the siege has turned to a bitter guerilla war among gutted farms and abandoned Soviet factory towns.

Head over to MMORPG.com to check out the full developer journal for more.

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Source: The Secret World Dev Journals: The Besieged Farmlands