falwood

The clatter of wheels and groan of overloaded axles quite easily drowned out the sounds of nature, the dirt kicked up obscuring the sharp scents of the wilderness. All around trees towered over the narrow road that the half dozen carts rattled down with more than twice that number in men and...

A symphony of howls and barks resounded all around the Falwood. A dozen or more hounds were chasing after one prey, their parted jaws easily picking up their prey’s scent as they bounded through the verdant green of the forest. Bloodhounds and elkhounds and retrievers were leading the hunt...

FALWOOD, THE WAR CAMP The surviving Guardsmen of the first wave coming up out of the Valley were a ragged company, a woeful sight, having lost all sense of that grandeur so often inspired by the Anirian military. In a battered and bloodied procession, by scattered ones and twos and threes, did...

[art cred] Lately, it seemed Vel Anir was trying to show off how there was no issues between the Kingdom and the Falwood. Now, anyone with more than three brain cells knew better. From the Brotherhood to the skirmishes along the border, it seemed Vel Anir and Falwood were still giving one...

"There is no place on this world for a being like me" Wild amusement. That's what danced and trotted its way through his mind every time that little thought shot up to his brain for a fraction of a second. Why was that something he constantly felt a need to remind what was left of himself? It...

OUTSKIRTS OF ALYR'SYLINA Soleil couldn't be more excited. She had thought that with the coming of the Republic, missions like this would be no more. And this was a mission like the ones of old. No rules. No compromise. No mercy. Butchery. Two Initiates, of which Soleil was one, had been...

The wagon train had come to rest along a woodland road. Caravanners made ready the camp, and Garrod hopped off the wagon, armored up as he was. He stretched, this way and that, and his cuirass rattled with his movement. "Think I saw a beach down the eastern side of the trail," he said as he...

7 Years Ago The Cat's Cradle Inn, In the town of Lesilan, Betwixt Alliria and the Falwood It pounded in his head. The green flame and its long teeth. A feeling he felt mirrored in his right arm. A feeling he felt digging into the flesh beneath the bone white gauntlet he wore. Yet he dare...

Falwood Gilram's Hidden Fortress Though no longer confined by the physical walls of the living realm, Chasmine still held herself to the virtues of propriety and manners she'd been taught long before she'd ever arrived at the Dreadlord Academy. So when Gilram requested her presence, the specter...

Soleil Verdane was trapped. The young Dreadlord Initiate, as could be imagined, was having a bad day. This bad day had its seeds planted three days prior. A mission gone wrong, enemy forces of the elven Fellowship stronger than expected, many Anirian Guardsmen dead or routed. Dreadlords and...

Lucis crouched low near the water's edge. With elbows on knees, and balancing on the balls of his booted feet, he peered up through tendrils of silver-white hair that fell across his forehead and over his eyes. But there was little to see. The misty exterior of the dense forest didn’t give away...

Aberresai Savannah - Northern Entrance to Falwood. Splintered wood. Broken wheels. Had to be more than wolves. Much more. Something giant, like a troll. Why would a troll be in the Falwood? It didn’t matter. Something of that size was the only real answer. Spilled goods. Smashed fruit...

From the east, a violent wind gusts at the frontier of the great Republic of Vel Anir Edge of Falwood Easter Vel Anir Frontier He had done what no other Siruk Warlord ever dared of. Riding east of Allir Reach, further until they crossed Falwood and intrude territories of elven scum. Even after...

The Falwood was everything everyone always said it was. Verdant and full of life. A sea of green as far as the eye could see. Ferns and moss among the trees, large white or red mushrooms growing between roots far older than Izara herself. It was the exact opposite of home, or what she used to...

The first thing Everleigh had noticed when traveling up this part of the border was that there were no trees. Even though there should have been plenty, they all had been uprooted and shipped off for buildings in Vel Anir. Everleigh looked up to the sky, throughout the expanse of blue there...

Eastern Entrance of the Falwood - Half Moon Flowers wasn’t sure what the creature was. And he thought for sure he’d seen someone else in these woods. Someone running from the beast. He felt empathy for the creature, then. It was something with greying skin. It had limbs like he did but was...

The night was cool, and calm. The sky was clear, and the land was washed in the pale light of Arethil's moons, full in their beauty. Beneath them, in the midst of sparse trees and great fields of grass, a lone figure sat silently by a gently burning flame, just near a softly running stream. And...

Village of Jarendale, Falwood "Most peculiar thing, you see, Slayer. All the milk, all the crops, withering away! Milk soured, juice tart, berries rotten, all at once!" The man said, as Arnor looked down at the meal he had ordered inside the village. Indeed he was right, the beer tasted like...

Dewdrops gleamed in the early morning sunlight, evanescent as dreams. Elinyra watched and listened to the unfolding symphony of a new day; insects stirring from plants in search of nectar, birds stirring from the trees in search of insects. A snuffling hedgehog was returning to its den, late for...

"Take this amulet. Find my daughter, do whatever it takes! Make those knife-ears pay for stealing my girl. Make them regret the day they crossed the hatched crest!" -Lower Council Member Frederick Chermain, unnamed house of Vel Anir Hate was a difficult emotion, requiring a certain level of...