House Blackwood Holdings

**Ruler**
 **Ruling House**
 **Resident Houses**
 **Seat**
 **Settlements**
* River Farmsteads
* Mining villages
* Ebony Harbor
* Hunting lodge villages
* Griffon Keep
 **Beliefs**
 **Founded**

Silver Hallow is a large region within the Gilnean mountains, Silver Hallow refers to the region ruled by House Blackwood and the settlement Silver Hallow. It's decently wealthy selling silver, leathers, and forged goods such as weapons and armor. It's mostly self-sufficient getting crops from the mineral rich river soil in the spring and summer, and fish and elk from autumn to winter. As it is near the sea it houses a harbor and deals greatly in trade.

## Culture

The people of Silver Hallow are a hardy and welcoming lot. There are very few who are poor most are quite well off, many live a more wealthy lifestyle that what is common to most other settlements. The silver mines, trade, and merchants create a lot of opportunities for the residents to create good income for themselves. Many favor drinking and hunting as good sport. Though they have some other fun activities they do as a people, such as the winter feast, or the knightly jousts that take place.

### Religious Beliefs

The residents are pretty mixed in following the old ways and following the church of the holy light.

### Local Holidays

**Black Hollow:** This holiday takes place during fall, it celebrates facing your fears. This holiday is a three day event. The first day is spent creating a whickermen, it can be any shape one desires, but the head is always a glowing pumpkin head. Once finished the whickermen is placed outside where the family can clearly see it when they look outside. A candle is then placed within it’s head giving it a glowing effect. It represents everything one fears, overnight it looms over the household, haunting them, burdening them with its presence. Some will build one, but most build one for each family member. On the second day the family will prepare for burning the figures, but for the most part they talk about facing one's fears, and not letting them control you. Stories are told about facing fear and so on. When it begins to get dark the figures are set alight. People usually dance and celebrate around the burning figures, and it’s traditional to use the coles of the fire to cook a hollowed dinner. The third day is spent forgetting one’s fear and focusing on joy. It's a huge celebration, celebrating the changing of the season, love of family, and of joy. Manny will drink and make merry.

**Silver Crest:** This day honors the dead and takes place during the winter. A family will gather around a Stained-Glass Lantern. This lantern often has silver embellishments upon it as decoration. Then the incense upon it is light, the feast of the dead is placed around the anchor and the family will tell stories of their dead ancestors as they eat.

## Economy & Resources

Silver Hallow ships out Silver, leathers, weapons, and armors. Due to the mineral rich rivers they have some great farmsteads as well as fisheries on the rivers and by the sea. Silver Hallow makes most of it's wealth through its shipments of leather and silver, as well as the merchants who dwell within the settlement. Finally, they make a good deal of income from their fisheries and selling of good mountain horse breeds as draft horses and war horses and selling wolf hounds as guard dogs and hunting dogs. They also sell and breed ravens as messenger birds or pets. Domesticated ravens are popular in silver hallow as the people are fond of using them as pets or using their feathers in their fashion.

## History

### Founding

Silver Hallow was founded by Wilfried Blackwood in 260 K.Y. However, 10 years later along with the help of a bronze dwarf he found many silver mines. He committed his Houses wealth and resources to mining silver and making that the focus of his house's wealth.

### Present Day

Silver Hallow is a thriving settlement full of opportunity and rich a culture.

## Settlements

### Silver Hallow

Silver Hallow Is the capital settlement of the region of Silver Hallow.

### River Farmsteads

There are two great rivers perfect for farming and irrigation. Mostly grains and grapes are grown. The river farmsteads are famed for their wine production.

**Mining Villages**

The silver mine settlement dot the mountain sides, each village holds roughly 100 men. A good mix of dwarves and humans working to mine the silver.

**Ebony Harbor**

This is almost a separate settlement from Silver Hallow as one needs to take the road down from the mountains to get to it. However, Silver Hallow is just above Ebony Harbor.

**Hunting lodge Villages**

These settlements are mostly full of worgen, but humans and dwarves also live in these villages within the woodlands. They hunt to harvest the leathers of the region, as well as for meat. They also gather ice from the tops of the mountains to keep their food refrigerated.

**Griffon Keep**

Griffon keep is a small settlement near the peaks of the mountains. Here the people of Silver Hallow can expect to receive their mail and visitor on griffon back. there's a tower to stable the griffons.

**Blackwood Estate**

Blackwood Estate is a large amount of land that overlooks the settlement of Silver Hallow, it consists of the Blackwood Keep and other buildings only for the use of the Blackwood family. The whole area is gated off to the public.

## Houses

House Blackwood is well known for their Silver trade and rule over Silver Hallow.