Odona

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Region Details
Continent Dwilight
Region Type Woodland
Geographic Area South Forest
Population 215
Economy N/A
Politics
Realm (rogue)


Geography

Odona lies at the northmost extremity of a Great Forest in Southwestern Dwilight. To the North and Northwest of her runs the Great Draco River which empties into the southern part of the Great Bay. To the East lie the fertile regions of Paisland, Chesland, and Larur which feed the nearby cities of Chesney and Paisly. The seat of the Lords of Odona is a large villa, temple, and farm complex set on the hill of Ard-Odona overlooking the Great Draco River, roughly central to the region. A settlement has grown up around the hill.“The Hill” is said to be a holy site, and the Lord of Odona gains much status among the peasantry by living on it.

The climate is characterised by warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. The great river floods annually in spring. The banks of the river have created a wide fertile floodplain where many folk make their living by farming, fishing and transporting barges loaded with timber and produce down river to Gretchew and Chesland. Many olive trees grow on the floodplain and the land produces a rich yield of fruit and vegetables. Further inland the land rises steeply and the floodplain gives way to extensive forests of pine, fir, oak and cedar that are the true wealth of Odona. The farms and villages of Odona are set on these slopes to save them from the floods. As one travels inland, the forested uplands gradually slope downward to the South and Southeast.

Lore

A common pastime for the peasants is to search for "ancient traces". Folklore tells of a great kingdom which once ruled here and there is some evidence to back this claim. There are traces of an ancient highway running Northeast coming out of Thysan before crossing the entire region and ending at the hilltop of Ard-Odona overlooking the river. This hilltop was certainly of great significance to the ancient Odonans for it is surrounded by many spirals of standing stones that are venerated as shrines by the peasantry to this day.

Most of the artifacts found and examined by Scribes or Alchemists have been finely worked stone tools. There is also much pottery, both elegant and crude, with a few examples of bronze, silver, and gold objects. The spiral was evidently very important to the early inhabitants because that pattern is a recurring theme in their work. No evidence remains of their dwellings, but there are hummocks along the forested ridges which are rumoured to be their tombs.

History

For long ages Odona has been a wild place. Monsters and great beasts were common and their ravages kept any sort of civilization from arising. Humans were restricted to a few hundred folks in two or three enclaves.

At last in July of 1009 the Terran Army of the Lowlands came in to establish Order. Their Marshal, Lady Saffron Recluse became the first Senator of Odona, the first Human Leader the region had known for perhaps centuries. The barbarian bands were quickly won over by the promises which the Terranian visitors demonstrated. They embraced the security and justice of their new Leader and quickly got to work at building up their own towns and roads as well as the estates of their Senator and her Knight, Harding Dent. Plans were laid out to eventually house over 3000 commoners, more than triple what the population had ever been.

This was the first time that these few families could think about a future, and it was looking bright.

--Recluse 00:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)