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Dilean “Meadowsedge” (Rhyl)
Posted on November 21, 2025
Dilean “Meadowsedge” is a woodland surrounded meadow and the location of a small and secluded Beastwood on the edge of the Plumwood Timberland forest.
Baronial Rangers of Cunee
Posted on November 21, 2025 in Steel-Realms
The Baronial Rangers of Cunee are an elite force of rangers (though not a formal order) maintained and used by the Baron of the Barony of Cunee for long range patrols and scouting, as well as escorting the baronial family outside the City of Fortun. They have a small place of refuge in the forest that occupies the north of the Barony – Dilean “Meadowsedge”.
The Baronial Rangers of Cunee work with World Watchers and the druids of order of Greenwood Knot for long range Patrols into the mountains to the east of the Barony of Cunee – searching for undead incursions form the Lich Lord’s minions. They have access to Wylde Quality armaments.
They specialize in using the bow and arrow tips from metal heated alongside the fire lit on Burning Crop at the end of the Transit of Western Fire. These bits of metal gain their final forging and shaping in the Inderood Bronzeworks in the City of Fortun.
Westbrook Tabernacle at Cunee Abbey (Rhyl)
Posted on November 21, 2025 in Steel-Realms
There is little left Westbrook Tabernacle at the Cunee Abbey. It stood on the east side of the tower in the Abbey grounds. It was a family altar and mausoleum. Today it has collapsed and is inaccessible. All the stones that could be salvaged without desecrating the site were taken from it. A few markers still stand, in respect for the family that founded that Abbey and was buried here. No offerings are made though, and while the vegetation is cut back once a year, it gets overgrown and muddy.
The Tabernacle had some ancient family catacombs were the dead were laid to rest in the ancient days of the Kingdoms of old Rhylan. The catacombs are collapsed and sealed up now.
Notable Places and Geographical Features of Cunee
Posted on November 21, 2025 in Steel-Realms
The Notable Places and Geographical Features of Cunee are the natural and notable places that span Settlements of the Barony of Cunee within the Barony of Cunee.
Greenwood Knot order of Darupet and Wheyipuh
Posted on November 21, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Greenwood Knot order is one of the Cults, Orders and Sects of Darupet. It is small and ancient, located in a single Beastwoods on the grounds of Cunee Abbey of the Barony of Cunee in the Grand Duchy of Rhyl.
Noted For: They are one of the few druidic orders that have powerful shape-shifting ability – specifically the great northern timber wolf, once the Ducal symbol of Rhyl.
Revitalized Order: The new baronial line was not interested in patronage, but gave the old Abbey to the order. It languished, as did the order, until a new group referred to as “Wolf Runners” reconstituted the order and its responsibilities in CY 7961.
Chronicle/Facts of the Order
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Greenwood Knot is one of the Cults, Orders and Sects of Darupet. It is small and ancient, located in a single Beastwoods in the Cunee Abbey of the Barony of Cunee in the Grand Duchy of Rhyl.Noted For: They are one of the few druidic orders that have powerful shape-shifting ability – specifically the great northern timber wolf, once the Ducal symbol of Rhyl.
Revitalized Order: The new baronial line was not interested in patronage, but gave the old Abbey to the order. It languished, as did the order, until a new group referred to as “Wolf Runners” reconstituted the order and its responsibilities in CY 7961.
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.
They are considered a more militant order, the Greenwood Knot symbolizes nature twisted, angry, and not following the normal path.
Members: It is a small order of only about 250-300. Most of those entering the order are not local to the barony; Wyldlings, Freelanders, and Ilbarsi tribefolk who are drawn by a vision of the wolf running with the Lord of Beasts. They are predominantly male, but about 20% are female. Most are human, though a few half-elves, elves, and even half-orcs have been in their ranks – foundlings normally taken in by druids. Those accepted into the order care nothing for any civilized distinctions – if you meet the bar of the Wolf Runners, you are pack-marked and all are brothers and sisters. Most who come are aggressive, stubborn, societal outsiders seeking a place to belong. They desire to do good in their service, though their instinctual actions are bloody and savage. There is no shortage of missions for those of the order.
Revitalized Origins & Service
All of them serve at least 2 years on The Autumn Wall. Their specialty is using their savagery to fill gaps when the undead come in swarms, or chasing down swift running ghouls if they get over the wall and into the territories beyond. Drinking from the sacred well at the Abbey of Cunee, blessed by the blood of Darupet, keeps them from getting diseases for tearing up the undead in service. When not on The Autumn Wall, the druids of the Greenwood Knot order range the low hills of the Tolkisson Mountain Range on the eastern boundary of the The Grand Duchy of Rhyl. Their their keen noses sniff out Darkling infiltrators, Ghoul spies of the Lich Lords, and the monstrosities that come out of the Valley of Sighs. The Greenwood Knot order works close with the elves of Haivelaugh Weald, the dwarves of Sun Stone Top, normal patrols of Barony of Kopriane and even the Greykin Hill People.
Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty
Initial Origins & Service
The Abbey was founded by the Westbrook Baronial family, for the prestige of patronage, around CY 3800. The order somewhere within a few years of this.
The order has always been a loose one, originally it was a place for misfits that were willing to keep up the abbey’s grounds in exchange for a home. They were never very good, though it kept the sanctity of the beastwood up and was a safe haven for other druids outside the order.
The original druids were known to run with the wolves of the north, sometimes helping the locals, sometimes raiding their stocks. They were considered practically feral and were in danger of being exterminated by their own faith as too dangerous and unpredictable.
Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
Wolf Form: The Greenwood Knot order are one of the few druid sects outside the Order of Davros known to be able to shape change. Their compact was made when the Kingdoms of old Rhylan ruled in the north, and their common symbol was the great northern wolf. They developed an ability for their senior members, when they absolutely needed it, to call on the full Wylden dire form of the wolf – beyond simple dire wolf – within the bounds of Rhyl.
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
The Moonrise Tradition
This takes place every few years with those aging druids who have been “put out to pasture” so to speak, and based on the Moonrise of the Greenwood Knot. Decades in service to the order result in a peaceful old age. But, because their elite warriors have tasted the blood of the enemy beyond the Autumn Wall, those who wish are allowed one last act of service – sacrifice. In a ceremony called down by the highest rank female druid in the Abbey of Cunee, those who wish are granted lycanthropy – the ‘curse’ of the werewolf. Envigored with the vitality of the ultimate beast, they lope to the Autumn Wall and descend upon the undead in a frenzy. This tradition only operates during a full moon. The undead beyond the wall fear every full moon for this reason, and count the full moons between the last attack.