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Kingdom of Willows (book)

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Kingdom of Willows is a setting book for Changeling: The Dreaming, covering the land of King Meilge in southeastern Concordia.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf Catalog:
The tranquil South holds the promise of endless summer for the Kithain of Concordia. But promises fade, dissolved by unspoken rivalries and dark despotic dreams. Beneath the gilded mask of Southern Hospitality, a madman's ambition gnaws at the heart of the land.
The Royal Procession
Amid a flurry of hopes and dreams, High King David and his new queen, Faerilyth, begin a grand tour of Concordia in King Meilge's realm. Then disaster strikes.
Kingdom of Willows includes
  • A guide to the chimerical landmarks of America's southeast
  • A new Nunnenhi kith and the secret of High King David's legendary treasure - the sword Caliburn
  • The opening gambit of an ongoing epic quest destined to transform the soul of Concordia


Chapters[]

Magnolias Fade, Willows Weep[]

Short story that focuses on the ambitions of King Meilge, one of Concordia's most complex and devious rulers, and sets the tone for the rest of the book.

Introduction[]

Gives an overview of the Kingdom of Willows, including the mood and theme that together serve to unify a region of divergent interests and varied populations.

  • Reference Sources:
    • Geography and Travel:
      • The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America series: Virginia and the Capitol Region, The Carolinas and the Appalachian States, and The Deep South
      • Insight Guides series: Old South, Washington, D.C., etc.
      • Fodor's Guides: The South and Virginia & Maryland
      • Quick Escapes from Washington D.C. by John Fitzpatrick & Holly J. Burkhalter
      • Carolyn Sakowski's: Touring the East Tennessee Backroads, Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads, etc.
    • History and Culture:
      • John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
      • Black, White, and Southern, by David R. Goldfield
      • A Class by Themselves: The Untold Story of the Great Southern Families, by William Stadiem
      • Kenneth S. Greenberg's Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, Gambling in the Old South
      • The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce, 1670-1740, by Shirley Carter Hughson
      • American South: a History, by William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill
      • Time-Life series on The American Indians
      • The American Indian in Alabama and the Southeast by Rev. John Franklin Phillips
    • Fiction and Literary Criticism:
      • Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
      • The novels of Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor
      • List of contemporary Southern writers: Reynolds Price, Lee Smith, Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams, Clyde Edgerton, Bobbie Ann Mason, Louise Shivers, T. R. Pearson, Gail Godwin, Alice Walker, William Styron, Alex Haley, Fred Chappell, Toni Morrison, Pat Conroy, Eugenia Price, Dori Sanders, Ernest Gaines, and Doris Betts.
      • Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers, by Dannye Romine Powell
      • The New Writers of the South, edited by Charles East
    • Films:
      • Gone with the Wind
      • Deliverance
      • Roots
      • The Color Purple
      • To Kill a Mockingbird
      • Long Hot Summer
      • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
      • Thunder Road
      • Interview with a Vampire
      • Steel Magnolias
      • Last of the Mohicans
      • Nell
      • Forrest Grump
      • Prince of Tides
      • Days of Thunder

Book One: Dreams of a Lost Past[]

Chapter One: History of the Kingdom of Willows[]

Chronicles the history of the American South, from the original Native American faeries through the two European invasions and the later Resurgence. In addition, the story of the growth and development of the American South speaks of Dreams and promises made and broken, of victims and profiteers, of wat and its aftermath, and of a new South emerging from the ruins.

Chapter Two: Geography[]

Outlines the varied regions that make up the Kingdom of Willows - its duchies and important lesser domains and their place in the world of both mortals and changelings. Places of historic interest and Glamour-rich sites abound in this landscape of raw emotions and tattered dreams.

Chapter Three: Politics and Culture[]

Looks at the underlying schemes and plots at work in the Kingdom of Willows. Featuring the various political impulses of both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, along with the machinations of the Shadow Court, this section describes the unique phenomenon of "politics - Southern Style." Secret societies abound in the Kingdom of Willows; changeling organizations that exist throughout Concordia have branches in the South, but other, unique societies flourish here as well.

Book Two: Dreams of a Troubled Future[]

Chapter Four: Kithain of the Kingdom[]

Offers a wealth of information on Who's Who among Southern changelings, from King Meilge and his counselors to the rulers of the Duchies and important (or just plain interesting) commoners.

Chapter Five: Gallain and Others[]

Presents more characters. In this section, you can find representatives of the Nunnehi who remain, despite efforts to dislodge them, as well as some of the strange creatures called Inanimae. Here's also, are other supernaturals, including vampires, werewolves, wraiths and mages, who might have cause to interact with the changelings of the Kingdom of Willows.

Chapter Six: Storytelling[]

Supplies background information concerning the ongoing story begun in this supplement and gives hints about future developments. In addition, this section presents ideas for telling other stories based in the Kingdom of Willows and offers thoughts on how to incorporate the atmosphere of the South into your stories set in Melige's domain.

Appendix[]

Describes important treasures of the Kingdom of Willows, as well as detailing a new Nunnehi kith and describing faerie steeds and hounds.

  • Kingdom of Willows Map

Background Information[]

Ads in the back include: Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade (June 1498) and Vampire: The Masquerade Revised (October 1998).

Memorable Quotes[]

Gallery[]

Characters[]

Kithain of the Kingdom[]

Gallain and Others[]

Terminology[]

Coal Town, Court of Mirrors, Duchy of Appalachia, Duchy of Blue Grasses, Duchy of Chesapeake, Duchy of Cotton, Duchy of the Delta Crescent, Duchy of Dogwood, Duchy of the Ozarks, Duchy of Palmetto, Duchy of the Triangle, Duchy of Winterthorn, Florist Primaeval, The High Castle Crafters, Kingdom of Willows, Nunnehi, Statuaries, Thought-crafter, Twisted Oak, Washington, D.C., Willow's Heart, Willow's Heart Freehold, Wisteria Hall,

References[]

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