The Blackwater Hunting Grounds are the site of a Nunnehi Freehold in Maryland.
Overview[]
Part of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Blackwater Hunting Grounds connect the Umbra to this vast tract of marshlands, waterways, open bodies of water, and forests. Deep within the woodlands, a few rock formations serve as the entrance to an encampment of may-may-gway-shi, or rock fishers, whose mortal Algonquin descendants once hunted in this region.
Although they keep mostly to themselves and rarely interact with the visitors who drive, cycle, or walk along the approved trails and paths that traverse the wildlife preserve, daring individuals occasionally show themselves to outsiders. Smiling River, one of the most curious of the rock fisher braves, sometimes guides lost persons back to safety.
Making their homes within the rocks themselves, the may-may-gway-shi of the Blackwater Hunting Grounds have decorated their dwellings with paintings in the inner walls of the rocks.
Within the Umbra, the Hunting Grounds teem with animal, bird, and fish spirits, who allow the rock fishers to pursue them in a celebration of the bond of necessity between predator and prey. Each spirit who gives its life to feed one of the rock fishers returns the next day, its spirit reformed and ready for the next chase.
References[]
- CTD. Kingdom of Willows, p. 77.