Barony of Selwood

**Ruler**
 **Ruling House**
 **Resident Houses**
 **Seat**
 **Settlements**
* Hunters of the Veil
* Phantom Glade
* Selwood Grove
 **Beliefs**
 **Founded**

The **Barony of Selwood** was once a popular stop for travelers before heading into Elwynn Forest and the capital of Stormwind proper. It was once a place of great trade, though with the ongoing tensions within their own lands, it seems that those focuses have settled in the current years.

## Culture

The people of Selwood are welcoming, as opposed to their close neighbors to the west. Those within the city proper are always willing to outstretch a hand and help those passing by, offering them a warm bed for the night and a nice meal in the morning before they continue on.

### Religious Beliefs

Some residents can be considered superstitious, but most believe in the Church of the Holy Light.

### Local Holidays

On **March 1st of each year**, it is common for the people to celebrate **Eostre.** This is a time for celebrations, a time of rebirth and fertility. People normally celebrate with lots of wine, as it is believe that during this time, each cup would lengthen their life by one full year. A time where children can find colorfully scattered eggs about the city, filled with candies and other goodies. A customary time to celebrate with meals with family and friends, more importantly within the woods surrounding the city proper.

On **January 6th of each year**, the locals celebrate the holiday of **Epiphany**. During this time, its often celebrated with traditional cakes, chaking the house doors with blessed symbols for the year and attending celebrations. This holiday is very popular among children however, as it is associated with Befana. Befana is a little old witchy lady who lives in the mountains. During the night before the holiday, she flised around on a broom and delivers little gifts, mostly candies, to the good kids: the naughty kids, instead, only receive coal. It's also believe that Befana used to fly over the fields in the week prior to this holiday to make them fertile. It's also said that during this time she would die, making the last gifts seeds and food to the people, as a promise that she would be born again next spring to repeat the process.

On the days **Febuary 13th to the 22nd of each year**, they celebrate something called **Feralia**. This is a time to honor ones ancestors and all those who have come before us. This week is a time dedicated to visiting the dead, bringing food offerings to the graves, or even having their lunch at the graves, to keep them and their spirits good company and to reflect and exchange ongoings of the year past with those who have departed. Some people even leave black beans on the graves, something used to represent their tears for the dearly parted. They also believe that for the dead to be at peace, they needed to visit the world of the living every now and then. That's why also on these days a great pit is opened, an entrance they believe, that allowed the spirits of those parted to enter the world once more for the week that they are celebrated.

On May **2nd of each year**, the people celebrate, or more so dread, something that has come to be known as the hallowed days. These days and this even is hard to put to specific dates, as it is a battle between the two neighboring cities that can last hours, days or even weeks, depending on the forces and how evenly matched they are at the time.

## Economy & Resources

It was one a place that rivaled even Westfall in its exports of food goods and agriculture, as well as a fair amount of precious ores that came from the mountains and mines to the west, however in more recent days these things seem to have slowed.

Though their main export still seems to be that of their food-goods, the ores seem to have completely stopped now their the neighboring city claimed it within their own territory.

## Settlements

### **The City of Selwood**

The City of Selwood was once a simply home to the two founders. Their own homestead within the depths of Duskwood that eventually grew into that of the city it is today as more and more people came to seek shelter from the growing dangers of the world around them. With control over the largest source of water in the lands, they tend to lean towards a more agricultural lifestyle, instead of over expanding and snatching every resource just outside of the walls and safety of the city.

### Hunters of the Veil

The Hunters of the Veil is a basecamp of military based mercenaries and treasure hunters based within Selwood. They act as the defending and main force of the main city when the times come for conflict and are the ones who extend their hand out to those in need within the Kingdom. Not much is known of them, given they tend to keep to themselves and spend most of their time readying for the next conflict to arise, but word has been told that they always extend a welcome to those passing by or those interested in their cause of understanding the unknown and bettering the future for those to come.

### Selwood Grove

Selwood grove was made from nearly nothing, based upon the waste that the undead blight once forced upon the land. With the help of his mother, Aximer Selwood finished what she could not. With his teachings in the ways of the druids, he started to aid the land and able the soils with life once more, sprouting up dauntingly thick forest that possesses both life and magic. Together, the two created a mass of forested land that would slowly fight back at the encroaching undeath that swept across the land and left its wildlife and nature in havoc, as well as working as the first line of defense against those that would seek to attack the city proper. Creatures and plant life working as natural traps, illusions that lead on in circles until the end of time. Only those with knowledge of the forest themselves and someone to guide them make it through unharmed.

### Phantom Glade

Phantom glade is the other large settlement, as well as house, within the barony of Selwood. When the city of Selwood started working towards changes to better the land and bring it back to what it what once was, there were those who opposed such actions and thought instead that it should move forward and embrace what it had become. A city to the most shady of sort; necromancers, warlocks, thieves and many more. Though their city is built from the remains found from decaying homes and structures lost to time and the plague of the undead, they do have one thing over house Selwood; the mines. With this resource within their grasp, they are able to keep up assaults against the main city, as well as keep the constant war between the two ongoing. Their current goal is to harness the undead of the land and use it as their own, however how to do so has yet to be figured out by those within their walls.

### The Hallowed Grounds

The hallowed grounds were once a rather large city that sat just south of the remaining two; the one that connected the two and where most of the trade would be done, as well as the main entry point for those looking to make their way into the barony. Those times are long gone however, as now they stand true to their new name. These are lands constantly bombarded by battles, sieges and everything between as the two try to force their way into the others land. Within the center of these lands sits the remains of the old Witches tower, rumored to have remains of her magics and books within such, though if it is true or not... None has yet to find out.

## Houses

House Selwood rules Selwood. The house is not only known for those who first came to the land and started trying to bring it back to what it once was, but also known as those who keep others within the capitol city safe from the dangers outside. The most founders of the house are those who built the very town with their own hands before others started to flood in, starting as their own little home and what now has grown to the city it is today. Since such, the new Baron has taken it upon himself to start trying to reclaim the land by extending groves to try and fight off the undead that surrounds the city and neighboring ones.

House Phantom is the second largest house within the Barony of Selwood. Long ago with the changes the two founders made, there were those who did not agree. Instead of wanting to change the land to what it once was and regrow the forest that had once ruled the land, instead they took to necromancy and trying to extend the grasp of the undead ghouls that reside within its thick, swampy forest. They are constantly at war with house Selwood, a back and forth of pushing land.