The Wyldweir is a Dream Realm of the Near Dreaming.
Overview[]
Formerly an Arcadian protectorate, this forested mountain region fell to several Denizen groups during the Miririm. After the Resurgence, House Eiluned ruthlessly reclaimed much of its ancient lands and opened them to re-settlement by disaffected changelings form the Autumn World and the Fields Behind. Both the changelings and native Denizens claim historical ownership of the realm and much of the region has been drenched with blood over the last several decades.
Among the region's Dark-Kin are the Black Forest fir-bholg (also called the Corca-Duibhe) and a divided fuath nation. The Corca-Duibhe are shorter, squatter, and more primitive than the beast-men of the Splinterpeaks in the Far Dreaming. Wiser in the ways of nature, they have almost completely forgotten the use of their ancient machinery which lies in disrepair in the surrounding forest caves. Insular and suspicious, they are numerous and wage a war of attrition against the local fuaths. Oddly, despite their savagery, the Corca-Duibhe practice a form of participatory democracy among themselves. As in the Winterweir, some of the local fuaths have thrown in their lot with the distant White Court while the independent "Forcene Confederacy" maintains a fierce freedom. War between the fir-bholg and the fuaths weakened both sides to the point where they could not repulse House Eiluned's return. Current adhene resistance to the changeling occupation consists mainly of murderous raids and terrorist actions. It is whispered by some that the Corca-Duibhe have entered into an alliance with the White court in order to gain vengeance on the invading changelings. Some among the Forcene Confederacy, though, have made overtures to the returning changelings, using their knowledge of the White Court's return and a powerful persuasive tool.
The Wyldweir is now roughly divided into four regions. The Eiluned Protectorate's ruler, Duke Egan, is paranoid but calculating. He rules from his floating castle above a great lake. The Corca-Duibhe fir-bholg have been pushed into a small but nearly impenetrable territory of thick, uncharted forests and rugged mountain terrain bordering on the Splintered Mountains. The two warring fuath nations battle over the wet forested lowlands near the Winterweir. The final territory, the Suräli Country, is hilly and largely devoid of trees. Its inhabitants are an ancient and primitive Denizen adhene of gargantuan hill-giants called the Obda. Dangerous but none-too-bright, they hold an ancient animosity toward the neighboring Denizens who have forced them into the hills.
References[]
- CTD. Denizens of the Dreaming, p. 30.