Spawn of Velun

Spawn of Velun is a book discovered among the treasure looted by the Legion of the Black Hand.

## Description

Spawn of Velun is a leather-bound tome that carries with it the scent of smoke and aged juniper. It talks of the Ancient Green Dragon Velun and his conversations with residents of the Feywild.

## Research

### Completed by Bren

Oh, how can one truly describe the simultaneous wonders and terrors of the Feywild to one that has not experienced them first hand? Truly, it is as trying to portray a vibrant colour unseen, or novel flavour untasted, by measure of the impossibility. Is it within the vocabulary of mortal minds to explain the beauty of the Timeless Vale, where the hours and seconds truly do stand still, the rain lies suspended unmoving and the very lands refuse to be ravaged by the passage of the years? How can a soul of a living being comprehend the overwhelming sorrow of the Glen of Lost Tears, where waterfalls fall and rise into eternity and spirits of woe fill the mist with melodies of melancholy? The Feywild is beyond understanding for most - but there are a few that achieved such a monumental asking. First of course are the most powerful of the Archfey, beings of the utmost preeminence among feykind. Morgaelai - Queen of the Aldergreen Court, The Forgotten Prince - who has misplaced even his true name, Lyomri - called the Daughter of Twilight, The Wellspring Mare and the Weald Witch are those more well-known, and it is the lattermost of which this tome is largely dedicated.

The Weald Witch has at times found conflict with the seelie and unseelie of the Feywild alike, but unlike her counterparts is those amongst them most likely to frequent the Prime Material Plane. For this credit is given the Ancient Green Dragon Velun, known also sometimes as the Watcher of the Woods. Legends report that Velun's hatching outdates even Aita's Second Gift, and if the stories are to be believed, does so by many hundred years. With this in mind, it is said that Velun's age may be in truth in excess of fifteen hundred years - and in these years much attention has been granted to the study of the Feywild. Shortly after this research began, Velun would meet the Weald Witch, the pair quickly falling into an enthralling verve of passion. By means of ancient blood and unfettered arcane presence new beings were created, many of which that followed Velun back to the lands of Ahlus when he returned, in time becoming the hags that haunt the forests of the continent - but none in so great density as those of Covengrove, the domain of the Hallowed Circle - a coven made up of Grey Marjorie, Glaring Freda and Crooked Dolores Tallowstumble.

The relationship between Velun and the Weald Witch has proved to be as tumultuous as the lands in which they first met. Decades - lengthened into centuries or compressed to mere seconds by the nature of the timewarp of the plane - pass with hatred and distrust between the pair, before being mirrored in eons of chaotic fanaticism and fervour. This has spawned further change into a sea of furore, for the Weald Witch is a being of many names. Beings of all kind pledge themselves to her with cries of victory to the Weald Witch, Mistress Willowjoint, Sister Soilhands, The Nightbaker and the Scalebreaker, but all serve the same creature. Most commonly though, for the times of great passion for the Watcher of the Woods are frequent and long-lived, she mirrors his own name, introducing herself as Granny Juniper in mimickry of her first and favourite daughter Magnhild's own title of Aunt Juniper and Velun's own moniker as the Juniper Prince.