Creepy abandoned farms? More likely then you think!

One of the first "area/dungeon/adventure place things" in the game is the farms that feed most of the province. Just south of major trading city was a lot of fertile land and a major river ran through the area. Settlers clear cut some of the trees to make more room to set up farms. Now since the undead have swept through, these farms are now empty, collapsing buildings. With the lives and memories of those who lived here scattered about.