Brocéliande
Overview
Lush Brocéliande, on the border between Dawn and Highguard, is considered by the Navarr as ancestral homeland and is the single largest forested expanse in the Empire. This is where Navarr and Thorn first danced. The Navarr have been unable to make any significant gains in this territory against the Vallorn, and there is limited Navarr presence here.
Recent History
Over the last fifty years, much of the forest was infiltrated by barbarian orc communities settling from the Barrens. They largely avoided the Navarr, until the surprise attack from the Druj forces passing through the Forest of Peytaht as part of their invasion of Reikos. While the Druj took and held Elereal they made no effort to push for further control of Brocéliande. Indeed, they seemed more interested in keeping the vallornspawn at bay than in engaging with the Navarr.
Throughour 378YE, the orc settlers from the Barrens retreated out of Brocéliande, leaving their makesthift camps to fall into disuse or be overrun by vallornspawn.
Major Features
The Broch
The largest collection of steadings of the Navarr, well-defended and constantly guarded. It is the western edge of the Navarr’s watch on the barbarians and darker horrors of Brocéliande. It is both fortification against the orcs, and a place of ritual where Vates gather when necessary to counter specific magical threats.
Regions
Elerael
Elerael was one of the few regions of Brocéliande initially under Navarr control. The most prominent steading here, Eleri’s Stead, was once a comparatively peaceable place, a Navarr counterpart to High Chalcis where herbs and forest plants were studied. It was swept away as orcs flooded from the Forest of Peytaht.
The orcs were most likely Druj from Reikos, but it is not clear how much of a presence they still maintain here. Some Navarr scouts have reported an increase in wallornspawn attacks into Elerael, increasing in severity dramatically after the Reikos trods were damaged in 378YE.
Keywords: Forested
Black Boughs
Keywords: Forested, Vallorn
Boar's Dell
The northernmost region of Brocéliande is the site of Greenstead, a stone-walled steading built with support from Rucastle as Dawn and the Navarr threw a ring around the dark heart of the forest there. It is often assaulted, but with Dawnish support it has always held. There has long been a bond - and several intermarriages - between the two settlements.
Keywords: Forested
Dark Ranging
Keywords: Forested, Vallorn
Greenweald
Keywords: Forested, Vallorn
Terunael
This is the heart of the Vallorn in Brocéliande, and the most storied of the ancestral cities of the Navarr.
Keywords: Forested, Vallorn
Vale's Lament
Keywords: Forested, Vallorn
OOC Note
- As of Spring 379YE, the barbarian orcs control Elerael. The Vallorn occupies Back Boughs, Dark Ranging, Greenweald, Vale's Lament and Terunael. The Navarr (and thus the Empire) holds Boar's Dell.
- To claim Brocéliande, the Empire needs to hold four of the seven regions. This is currently impossible without reducing the power of the Vallorn.