Dreadwood

Spiteful as the sharpened thorn, dark as the shadows beneath the forest’s heart – fear the spirits of Dreadwood, for no mercy do they feel. The other glades do not trust **Dreadwood**, and with good reason. Its clans are cruel, malicious and spiteful, and delight in tormenting non-sylvaneth. There was never much mercy in these sylvaneth, and the terrible centuries of the Age of Chaos have leeched away the last of it. They are masters of subterfuge and trickery, and dark whispers persist that this callous and ambitious glade had some involvement in the Shrouded Time. Certainly, it cannot be denied that more Outcasts are drawn to their musters than to any other clan.

## Overview

Dreadwood Glade, is on the Isle Decrepita region, of Ghyran. The Dreadwood Glade has a nasty habit, of stealing the children and soulpods of other Glades, Especially Oakenbrow. It is this reason alone, that the other Glades refused to help the Dreadwood Glade when Nagash and later Nurgle invaded. (Core 92-93)

### The Age of Myth

* **Invasion of the Dead** - Decrepita, being a land where every living thing freezes and dies every year only be reborn again each spring, is coveted by Nagash. Under guise of a mass diplomatic visit he brings his armies to the region in person via the vast vertebral structures known as the Gates Mortis. At first, his vanguard is held bay by the Dreadwood. However, seemingly endless undead pour through the gate and, ultimately, the Sylvaneth cordon is breached. A wide-scale eruption of violence is only halted by the direct intervention of Sigmar. (Core 92)

### The Age of Chaos

* Nurgle **invades Ghyran**:
	+ **Divine Visitations** - The Plague Lord sets his rheumy eyes upon the Swathe Nations, seeing a great crucible of life but a season's journey from a region of wintery death. (Core 93) He invades Decreptia first and then uses the Realmgates to enter the rest of Ghyran.
	+ **The Dwindling Begins** - As the seasons of the dwindling draws in, the invasions of Nurgle's forces are unleashed. In Northern Thyria, the blessings of the Great Unclean One known as Rotigus drench the lands. Forming Slidecrown Isle. (Core 93)
* **During Alarielle's Hiding**:
	+ **A Deadly Harvest** - The War of Life intensifies as the Sylvaneth unite against the Nurgle invaders. The Gltkin and their rivals hunt for Alarielle across the lands, but she remains hidden in the under-realm of Athelwyrd. (Core 94)
	+ **The Brink of Utter Defeat** - In Horticulous Slimux, servant of Nurgles, wake the forces of Chaos hunt every day for Alarielle, to no avail. Whole generations pass, with Alarielle's verdant fortress's found and conquered one by one. Only Athelwyrd is left, hidden under the waters out of the sight of its enemies. (Core 95)

### The Age of Sigmar

* **The Hallowed Knights** - Are the first Stormcast Eternals to enter Ghyran, crashing down before the Gates of Dawn. (Core 95)
* **Queen of Malice** - Drycha’s claims that their mother was gone for good moved many sylvaneth to join her ranks, several clans of Dreadwood Glade foremost amongst them. She assembled a vast Wargrove, leading her followers on a destructive rampage that left millions dead. (Order 20)
* **The Fading of the Everqueen** - The Hallowed Knights search for Alarielle, entering the hidden valley of Athelwyrd at the end of their long quest. (Core 95)
* **Infamous Battle of Black Hallow** - the clans of Dreadwood were forced to ally with the Hallowed Knights to prevail over the Nightmare Host. Sigmar’s warriors were horrified at the spite and cruelty of their fey allies, though the sheer monstrosity of their enemies was a more pressing concern. (Order 20)
* **A Bridge Too Far** - When the inhabitants of Greywater Fastness level Verdant ground around the city during the "**Season of War"** and turn it into a desolate, chemical-ridden swamp, Alarielle sends forth a host of the Dreadwood to encircle the city and protect what is left - now known as Ghoul Mere. Led by a Treelord named Pale Oak. (Core 95)
* **Old Alliances** - Despite their malcontent, the clans of Dreadwood fought alongside those of Ironbark and Oakenbrow to turn back the Poxfang Tide. With the defeat of this scourge, a stretch of the Cascading Path was purified once more, opening new tributaries throughout the Jade Kingdoms. (Order 21)

## Known members of Dreadwood Glade

* Treelord Ancients - **The Keeper** - Keeper of Dreadwood Glade (Order 25);
* Treelord - **Pale Oak** - Alarielle's Commander of the Ghoul Mere Swamp Region (Core 95);
* Branchwyches -
* Branchwraiths -
* Tree-Revenants -
* Kurnoth Hunters -

## Famous Battles of the Dreadwood Host

* **Invasion of the Dead** - Decrepita, being a land where every living thing freezes and dies every year only be reborn again each spring, is coveted by Nagash. Under guise of a mass diplomatic visit he brings his armies to the region in person via the vast vertebral structures known as the Gates Mortis. At first, his vanguard is held bay by the Dreadwood. However, seemingly endless undead pour through the gate and, ultimately, the Sylvaneth cordon is breached. A wide-scale eruption of violence is only halted by the direct intervention of Sigmar. (Core 92)
* **Divine Visitations** - The Plague Lord sets his rheumy eyes upon the Swathe Nations, seeing a great crucible of life but a season's journey from a region of wintery death. (Core 93) He invades Decreptia first and then uses the realm gates to enter the rest of Ghyran.
* **Infamous Battle of Black Hallow** - the clans of Dreadwood were forced to ally with the Hallowed Knights to prevail over the Nightmare Host. Sigmar’s warriors were horrified at the spite and cruelty of their fey allies, though the sheer monstrosity of their enemies was a more pressing concern. (Order 20)
* **A Bridge Too Far** - When the inhabitants of Greywater Fastness level Verdant ground around the city during the "**Season of War"** and turn it into a desolate, chemical-ridden swamp, Alarielle sends forth a host of the Dreadwood to encircle the city and protect what is left - now known as Ghoul Mere. Led by a Treelord named Pale Oak. (Core 95)
* **Old Alliances** - Despite their malcontent, the clans of Dreadwood fought alongside those of Ironbark and Oakenbrow to turn back the Poxfang Tide. With the defeat of this scourge, a stretch of the Cascading Path was purified once more, opening new tributaries throughout the Jade Kingdoms. (Order 21)

## Source

* 1 *Order Battletome: Sylvaneth*.
* 5 How to Paint Citadel Miniatures - Sylvaneth
* 6 Core Book - 2018