Bloodbath on Brighton Pass Battlefield
In one of the more brutal and famous battles of the period, in 687 CE, King Loethgar II of House Wollyn of Gwfned died unsuccessfully defending Gwyfned city and the Brighton Pass from a large Jotun invasion force. This historic battlefield is in Killrun Barony, Gwyfned County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned.
Civis Noir
This infamous ruined city is in Marl Vale Barony, Urgholt County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. It is on the Tracer’s Cut, in the valley between Vessick and Qubit Mountains. It is covered in more detail on its own page.
Crypt of Dust
Also called Aarak’s Hyde, this complex site is in Hartscourt Barony, Trimon County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned and enveloped in the Trimon Forest. It is a desolate plot of land. Despite its title, it is not very dusty. Folktales blame this condition on a wicked mage named Mallichor DeLoque, a magic ring and a curse. The oldest legends, from well before Mallickor’s time, such that this was once an elaborate chambered cairn for one Aarak Silvertongue. The immediate area now is lifeless, nothing more than ash and mud, and the buildings that were rumored to be in the caverns beneath are buried under tons of dried mud.
Halls of Sorrow
Thus nearly forgotten erdstall is in Woemagne Barony, Cloudbridge County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. It ranges under the mountains for over a hundred miles and leads to an abandoned underground city. This deep, subterranean structure is still habitable, but no one knows who built it or where they went. Shadow people haunt these remains, and they will react aggressively to intruders.
Howling Pyrell Forest
This haunted forest is in Dolcroix Barony, Cloudbridge County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned is haunted by dangerous orbs and will-o’-the-wisp beings. Many folk tales have emerged about this mountain forest, but all are conjecture.
Lorinaei’s Labrinth
Secluded in the Hollywell Houses’ Formal Garden in Gwyfned City, this maze is in Gwyfned Vale Barony, Gwyfned County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. For those who walk the labyrinth under a full moon, their prize is a visitation by the Planetary Entelechy Sylvaen. She will either grant a wish, or whisk the offender off to the planet Sylvaen forever.
Ma Pharcus’ Lair
Based out of her home on Mount Thrandorr’s east face, just across the Ringe Taern from Gwyfned, Ma Pharcus, probably the oldest, ugliest ogre in creation, has lived for untold centuries. Specifically, this site is in Gwyfned Vale Barony, Gwyfned County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. Locals take a perverse pride in her ongoing presence.
Museum of Abrigorr
This lost museum, high on the side of Essoine Mountain and overlooking Gwyfned City below, is in Gwyfned Vale Barony, Gwyfned County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. Few know of its existence, and thieves never have survived looting attempts. This is covered on its own page.
Quell Stones
This collection of megaliths is in Moltonelle Barony, East Eldton County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned, in the Aendril Mountain’s western foothills. It has been all but forgotten in modern times, and no one remembers any of the folktales that must have once surrounded it.
Vence Hole
This unexplained hole, lost in the Gerth Forest and very remote, is in Thence Barony, Trimon County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. Creatures of various sorts have passed in and out of the hole from time-to-time, and it is believed to open in some hellish plane of existence, if not Hell itself. Sometimes, wicked cackling can be heard emanating from within, or voices may call out with hypnotic force to make visitors jump in. As usual, no one ever returns from such a hole.
Via Cthonas
This erdstall is in Darval Barony, Dolek County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. It is believed to extend all the way to Civis Noir, or to the poisonous, underground ocean realm of the Telfarri named Ulth. Along the way, this tunnel passes through some astounding chambers and ruins that could be sourced back to fairies, gnomides, or Verdanne. This tunnel’s entrance long ago caved in.
Via Keboldi
This erdstall is said to extend beneath the mountains all the way to Keboldi, the realm of the subterranean Verdanne, or to the realm of Vigg the Mushroom King. This erdstall entrance is in Mons Tarl Barony, Urgholt County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned, but it is well hidden from prying eyes by angles in the landscape, and may only be seen at certain times of day.
Via Tenebrai
Thus erdstall is in Belltide Barony, Gwyfned County, in the Kingdom of Gwyfned. This subterranean highway extends under Gwyfned City, and it intersects with this region’s other great erdstalls. It is protected by a mysterious figure called the Duke of Vile Darkness, though nothing beyond that is known. There are access points to this feature under several Gwyfned basements, but locals keep them sealed.
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