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Piestchulin’s Grove/Piestchulin Woodlands (Rhylan Grant; Rhyl)
Posted on August 29, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Piestchulin’s Grove is a western location in the Territories and Fiefdoms of Rhyl of the Grand Duchy of Rhyl. It is one of the Rhylan Grant fiefs. They are known for their amethyst jewelry and gourmet cooks of ‘peasant fare’. This location bears the Frost-Melded mark an ancient encounter with the Dragon of Rhyl.
Piestchulin Woodlands
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+ Hartwood Presence: This location leans heavily to the Wyld Faith, and has the presence of both Rhylian Briarwood and Rhylian Beastwood.
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Rulership: Hetman
Population: 2,000
The priest of Ezrilus, Piestchulin, settled over a thousand years ago. He and his minions (refugees he had taken in to make his cult) made a desperate stand against Orrish. The minions were half elves, elves, and humans. There was a promise to those that survived that the goddess would restore their number and they held out until only 20 were left, but drove the Orrish back into the forest. The population stays about 2000 people, all are diminutive humans with a strange faerie countenance, and 2/3 are female. They welcome half elves here. Women from here are some called ‘sirens’ they are so beautiful. It is said sometimes Ezrilus walks among them and blesses them with a celestial birth.
Spring Festival of Ezrilus
Spring festival Ezrilus has act specific to the Glade called petal, flowers, circle, something? Magic cooking, always lucky to learn fresh recipes.
Honeybark Meadows (Rhylan Grant; Rhyl)
Posted on August 29, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Honeybark Meadows is a western location in the Territories and Fiefdoms of Rhyl of the Grand Duchy of Rhyl. This Rhylan Grant is home to an enclave of mixed blood halflings and faerie kin. This location bears the Frost-Melded mark an ancient encounter with the Dragon of Rhyl.
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- This location as a Autumnleaf Ale Houses.
- {inst-name} > Primary Services Secondary Services
+ Hartwood Presence: This location leans heavily to the Wyld Faith, and has the presence of both Rhylian Briarwood and Rhylian Beastwood.
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Rulership: Council of Elders; each small settlement represented by a Hetman.
Population: 200-300 each settlement
Wandering Rope Stream
This flows between the forests, going south, providing a natural eastern boundary to the meadowlands.
Wheatstrand Bridge
The only constructed crossing point over the Wandering Rope Stream.
Stoneforge Valley of Rhyl
Posted on August 29, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Stoneforge Valley is home to the legendary Stonebreaker Company in Spring County of the Grand Duchy of Rhyl. The valley is located in the north of the county, east of the Gaur-Dinuae Forest of the elves, on the edge of the lands comprising North Gate Garrison. The legacy of the retreating giants leaves few who would do anything to this small enclave of their descendants in Stoneforge Valley. None have really had any issue though, even given that. These folk mostly keep to themselves.
Limited Access: Getting to the valley is difficult, their is a path/road that leads upwards, to The Brothers’ Doors.
Rulership: Hetman (the place has little real hierarchical leadership, they all seem to get along well in a homogeneous community)
Population: 3000 (though there is no official census provided); Looking at the population, you can definitely tell there is giant blood (Goliath (Half Colossi/Giant-Spawn)) still running deep in their veins. Tall, light gray with sometimes strange almost Rock formation patterns on their skin. These folk normally live twice the lifespan of a normal human.
Characters: For sure there are more of their kind seeking other adventure outside the The Grand Duchy of Rhyl – their amicability and size giving them an edge over others.
In Service to the Realms Levy
Every year they provide a freebooter band to the forces of North Gate Garrison for only a single year of service as part of the Realms Levy; Those that survive consider it a badge of honor, and they go on to form their own bands or pass on knowledge gained to others soldiers, watchmen, or scouts before joining their ranks or leaving the enclave in search of adventure. Their crafting of the famous Stone Forged Weapons is also considered a contribution from their people in service to the levy.
This locale trains characters in the practice of the Rhylian Undead Hunters.
Legacy of Giant-Kin Relations
It is said they still trade with the giants of Skyhollow (giant-home) in The Sky Stair Peaks to the north. Their crafters make finely made goods that their large hands of giants find difficult. Food, drink, stories & news, and finely made goods on request are traded each year in the spring at a specific place in the giant’s lands to the north. A few have tried to follow or impersonate their representatives over the years, and are never heard of again. The inhabitants of Stoneforge Valley guard the specific knowledge of their interactions from outsiders – though it is well known they interact and trade with them. The DDuke lets them be for now – they serve at North Gate Garrison in their own way fairly, and their interactions with their giant-kin do not bring harm upon others… thus far. The World Watchers are known to keep a distant eye upon such things, but do not attempt to interfere or uncover routes or track and exchanges – the peace is tenuous but works for all.
Encounters & Dangers in the Area
See Encounters in the Grand Duchy of Rhyl for common potential scenarios of notable events and creatures.
- Normal Settlement Encounters > Patrols | Recruiting | Sellers | Begging | Crime
Chronicle of the Locale/People
Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.
Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty
Information Sources: Mundane Reference | Associated Phenomenology Only | Specific Lore
For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.
CY – Original founding of the community.
Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty
Giant-Kin of the Stoneforge Valley of Rhyl Origins: Only the Giants of Intellect and Stone have mated with humanoids outside of the south. In the past, in the Chronicle of the Giants – The Walk North, their number dwindled as they were the self-appointed guardians of giant clans, and many of their number were killed in rearguard actions. As they walked north, it was seen as a threat by many, as they often depopulated swathes of herd and domestic animals and plants in their haste. As they came to the north, just beyond The Giants Steps, they met in battle with a clan of Wyldlings. This time the stone giants were in the vanguard, and managed to parley with them, and the Wyldings saw the situation for what it was, and allied with them to escort them.
The stone giants cemented this alliance in a bond of fertility with dozens of the giant women stayed and gave birth, infusing the Wylding bloodlines with earth power and generations of giant-kin. This caused a splintering of culture and suspicion with other Wyldings over time as the bloodline produced more massive half giant-kin. Eventually they were forced to leave The Wyldes of the Heartlands and they found a safe place east in a mountain home of Stoneforge Valley to the northeast, in more ‘civilized’ lands.
Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
Around CY 3980 – 4228 there is a ‘great walk along the The Giants Steps of many types of giants going north into the great mountains ranges or the Freelands; The refuge of the The Sky Stair Peaks was a place of safety and prosperity for them momentarily.
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
The goliaths have tales of fighting side by side with the Bloodless Herd of Havaelinn Wild Heart that are unknown to outsiders; A group of locals led by some of the Stonebreaker Company fighting on the Autumn Wall in CY 8851 thought to sacrifice themselves tto kill as many retreating undead from a failed Lich Lord offensive when they spied the herd and gave of their own blood to make them flesh. They descended upon the retreating remnants and slaughtered them. Most lived, and it bought a month of respite on the wall. Since then, the ghostly elk have provided warnings to the folk of the valley.
It was also revealed that peak night of the new moon of the slaughter that the Goliath blood became undetectable to the Lich Lord’s minions.
Icewatch/Lorman’s Lament (pacification garrison Rhyl)
Posted on August 29, 2025
Icewatch/Lorman’s Lament is the High King’s Pacification Garrison in the north of The Grand Duchy of Rhyl that is always fully stocked and maintained for 6 months, and contains a massive stable with 200 heavy and 400 light warhorses are kept in case forces break through and a massive charge is needed to break the forces of the Lich Lords or even Orrish.
A supplemental force of mercenaries is usually maintained here in the harshest season on the The Grand Duchy of Rhyl wherein the Lich Lord’s minions try and best take advantage of the ice and cold the living are susceptible to.
Chronicle of the Locale
Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.
Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty
Information Sources: Mundane Reference | Associated Phenomenology Only | Specific Lore
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
The Elves of the Enthavelaugh Weald in the Gaur Dinuae Forest ensure a steady flow of wild grains as well as peas and beans to keep the horses at peak health and strength.
Greenstand (Rhyl)
Posted on August 29, 2025
Greenstand is a stretch of several meadowlands, each surrounded by trees; These are small village Settlements of Barony of Meargensdale Vale within the Grand Duchy of Rhyl in the North Heartlands of the Steel Realms. This location bears the Frost-Melded mark an ancient encounter with the Dragon of Rhyl.
The area was settled by Pinetribe Folk thousands of years ago, and they have lived with the beavers and other animals since. While not hostile to outsiders, they tend to keep to themselves.
One dark aspect of the small subculture is the whispered rumors of human sacrifice.
Rulership: Hetman (typically a druid/shaman)
Population: 450 in each (about 4000 total)