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Cunee Abbey (disrepair; Rhyl)
Posted on July 29, 2025 in Steel-Realms
The Cunee Abbey is located in the Barony of Cunee just north of the City of Fortun. The abbey was the sacred place to the Green Church and Darupet under the ancient Westbrook Baronial family. Once their bloodline was spent in CY __, it became merely a public shrine to Darupet and a watch tower. The massive grounds quickly fell into disrepair, except the tower. Eventually a sect of militant druids, pure warriors took over the abbey, leaving it in disrepair and letting nature take its course.
Initial Description: The abbey was once a sprawling 60 acre grounds that was used for agriculture and even private hunting. It was double walled, with a low outer wall mostly to denote its boundaries. To the north and south were a large inner enclosure of 20 acres each with game used for private hunting. Everything of the original Abbey is in disrepair now, except the tower. The walls were dug deep, two meters deep into the soil, and a meter wide. There is persistent bloom of Blue Flax and Scilla marking a striking “blue boundary” around the lands of the abbey.
Farmsteads
There are about 7 Farmsteads located around the Abbey. The locales grow grain, bake bread, tan hides, smoke and salt meat, make mead and ale, and manage small herds of geese and goats and trade with order in the Abbey.
Fendstels Alehouse
On the SE corner of the land of the Abbey is the local Alehouse. It is a small gathering point for the locales and a point of common storage and celebrations. It can be seen from the Gatehouse. There is a large wooden warehouse and a small one (locked and used for fermenting the ale and mead and storage).
Stone Warehouse: This is locked and marked with the ancient Westbrook baronial seal. It is said to be sealed and kept place of mundane items from the old Baronial family – seals, portraits, chairs, clothes, and non precious items. Its been broken into a few times, and nothing of value other than to archaeologists was ever found. These are items emptied from Westbrook Tower.
Gatehouse
There is a newly constructed ‘gatehouse’ on the south side, where the old road to the City of Fortun goes, about 3 miles away. It sits up on the site of an older, larger gatehouse. It is less a Gatehouse and more of a stable and large common room with some private rooms upstairs. It is for visitors, and never staffed – though there are supplies like oil and lamps and such stored in a ‘self-serve’ style. There is a road that leads to the tower from here. There is a hitching post, and a pair of cleared corals here as well.
TWestbrook Tower
The tower of the Abbey is located in the center of its grounds. It is overgrown on the outside. The top has had soil dragged up to it, and a tree grows another 30 feet, squat with a massive trunk and boughs that run 20 feet in all directions. It is a haven for many ravens.
Chronicle of the Locale
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Boundaries: The stones of all structures and walls have been allowed to be taken to help locals over the centuries – for their own structures, walls, etc. Every summer there is a designated time for petitioners to come and ask for what is left of the ruins for local projects of the farm holdings around the abbey.
The Westbrook Hall of Records: This is ancient, and while nothing new is being added to it, the collected prayers and ceremonies that go back the ancient days when the Kingdoms of old Rhylan were many. It is these records from which the Greenwood Knot order was founded. Next to the Deepstone Archive of Rhylan, the Westbrook Hall of Records in the Cunee Abbey is the best source for the time of the Kingdoms of old Rhylan. The druids in the Abbey and the Rhylander Green Conjurists have ensured the materials stay safe and are copied as they age. They also allow public access to them for a small fee which goes to keep up the order.
Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty
The power of the Beast Lord Darupet keeps the game within the huge area of the Abbey.
Maintenance: When the reconstituted order took control of the Abbey, it was required to unseal the hall of records, and maintain the tower as a refuge if needed by the baronial family – whoever that may be. All of this has been done and more. The tower was almost completely rebuilt in CY 8320 and stands modern and strong.
Summer Vacation: After the tower was rebuilt in CY 8320, sometimes members of the baronial family will use it as a vacation, with top quality foodstuffs and hunting available from a staff they bring with them. The savage sounds from the order are disquieting and even disturbing to most though, and this happens rarely.
The Haunting of Sir Darron Westbrook, Baron of Cunee
The evil Sir Darron Westbrooke was kept in the deepest places under Cunee Abbey, imprisoned by his son in CY 7101. He escaped one day, eating his own thumb and slipping his manacles. He escaped into the family tombs, a deep cavern with old passages into a spreading ossuary of bones. He was hunted for years, killing many guards in what came to be called ‘the death caverns’.
Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
Stone Warehouse Site: This is actually a hidden refuge for the Rhylander Green Conjurists.
Baghara’s Temple (Rhyl)
Posted on July 24, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Baghara’s Temple is a temple to a sect of Ezrilus that focuses on knowledge and illumination, following in the footsteps of the founder, the Priestess Baghara, called “The Open-Eyed”. The temple includes the basics of the formal Abbey of Baghara and The Enclosure in White – a low wall inside which several gardens grow and a courtyard containing a sacred plinth and obelisk.
On a high rise is the temple to Ezrilus, Baghara’s Temple, named after the priestess who founded it. It is a center of moon worship and the light that reveals the darkness. It contains a small library of local and northern histories, maps and referrals to cartographers and artists. At its heart of The Enclosure in White is the The Ascendant Plinth – said to be the place where Baghara herself placed her last step as she ascended to the heavens. On top of this is built a white limestone obelisk that rises 25m into the air.
Notable Figures at Baghara’s Temple
The temple’s population in the Abbey proper is about 40 permanent Obedientiaries to serve its primary functions at any given time, as well as another 10-20 seeking education in the faith to become brothers or sisters. Additional followers serve the specialized functions of the temple.
- High Abbess/Abbot: High Abbess Henna the White
- Abess/Abbot: Abbess Maybry
- Prioress/Prior: Prior Allain
- Cantor of the Lands: Cantor Lila (oversees the cartographer operations of 12+ followers)
- Cantor of the Colors: Cantor Michael (oversees the artistic operation of 8+ followers)
Chronicle of the Locale
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Scholar and Artisan District of Thunderfall (Rhyl)
Posted on July 15, 2025
The _ District of the City of Thunderfall is located in the east of the city, north of the Merchant District. This location bears the Frost-Melded mark an ancient encounter with the Dragon of Rhyl.