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Aqualauria Tree (The Wyldes)
Posted on December 23, 2025
Aqualauria Trees are only found in copse’s in The Wyldes in the region of __. The tribesfolk drill or burn a hole with a heated metal rod. A fungus mixed with water is inserted. The tree produces a dark resin against the fungus infection, turning the area affected all around it dark chocolate brown. The tree is then harvested and dried after the inner wood is transformed in a process that takes 10-20 years. The dark gnarled wood is sold as Witchwood for powerful medicine, incense, and intoxicating perfume.
Getting Witchwood Out of The Wyldes
Very little Witchwood material leaves the Northern Heartlands. Some Witchwood material moves through the Freelands and to The North Merchant Cities. The renowned Witchwood Parties in Karolak are really orgies for the rich and powerful. In The Grand Duchy of Rhyl, agents of the Tea Lodges of Rhyl gains some of the Witchwood harvest each year to enhance their… powers of persuasion.
Cultural Experience of The Totemic Wylden
Posted on November 4, 2025
The Cultural Experience of The Totemic Wylden
Hag Troubles: Many adventurers from this area that stay in the north take the Undead Hunter Background of the Steel Realms. The Wylden Hag Hunters of The Wyldes of the Heartlands form a primitive Wylde Bond with the northern forests. From this they can smell the blood of the Hag’s Hatred of Rhyl and those bonded to them from a mile away.
A Plague of Hags in Rhyl
Posted on September 25, 2025 in Steel-Realms
In the Great Forest of Rhyl, there is something that has drawn an inordinate amount of strange creatures from the Faeywyld, specifically the evil Hags of legend; This has been dubbed the “A Plague of Hags“.
Commoners Perspective
Eveybody knows about dem hags! They come at night to steal your breath and dreams – life they take back to der lairz to feed on! Sometimes dey take the babies and swap them with other… things. Always creeping in the shadows of the forests and da rocks of da hills. Lookin’ for victims to corrupt and cause choas and madness in the lands of the north. Keep your holy symbols above da cradle. It can’t be helped, but that land gives a great bounty, and the hags ride that powerful life-force in a thin veil between worlds. They come here for the things they c’not get in Faeywyld.
Chronicle/Facts of the Plague of Hags
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.
The Wylden Hag Hunters of The Wyldes of the Heartlands form a primitive Wylde Bond with the northern forests. From this they can smell the blood of the Hag’s Hatred of Rhyl and those bonded to them from a mile away.
Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty
For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.
With the proximity of the Lich Lords’ armies and constant pressure on the living, there seems to be more raiding and misery by Hags done west into the Freelands sand The Wyldes.
Kinsaerel’s Weave are items specifically created to deal with this problem.Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty
The Har’ahdu Cunaigh – Aelfpath of Helca twines through the Great Forest of Rhyl. The Hags are thought to prowl this broken route through access in the great forest, looking for lost souls.
There are rumors that the High Priestess of Aerna has some special sway into turning the A Plague of Hags‘s attention west.
Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty
Stories exist of Hag’s Hatred stealing a few dryad offspring in Rhyl over the ages and corrupting them as their next generation are present in some tales.
Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty
The Dew Gate in the Navel of the Great Forest of Rhyl pulls through some of the wintery weather, dumping it in the Faeywyld as a roaming storm of sleet and snow, and drawing the ire of those that make their home there, accounting for A Plague of Hags in The Grand Duchy of Rhyl.