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The Farraige a Rugadh Hills are a series of smaller Galuyn villages south-east of Iscia's Rest. Located at the coast of the Ashwake Gulf, the villages are surrounded by naturally formed sea stacks, landforms consisting of steep and vertical columns of rock in the sea near the coast.
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The villages are home to the Galuyn descendants of the Wavewalker tribes, who now refer to themselves as the Leanaí Iscia, the children of the sea serpent Iscia. Usi'nead is the lake at the center, surrounded by the villages who serve as its defense. The lake is considered a holy site for the Galuyn tribes of the area as it is where the serpent is watched over by her Keepers when she visits the Galuyn tribes or begins her life-cycles anew.
The coastal sand is ashen in color due to the proximity to the once active volcano Flame's Berth, just as the neighboring Duchy the Ashen Coast.
The Galuyn people of the Farraige a Rugadh Hills are all able to navigate the sea and therefor skilled fishermen. The sea stacks form a natural barrier that protects the people of any attackers that come by water, allowing the men and women to use their currachs to counter any attacks. In fact one of the trials of these Wavewalkers is to navigate around the sea stacks without harming their currachs, both by daytime and nighttime to prove their worth and abilities to the tribes.
Drowning rituals, Bainise- the wedding rituals of the Galuyn, Aisling, and the general celebrations of the Galuyn people throughout the year are all generally not held at Usi'nead but rather at a specific location at the shoreline of the villages. Meanwhile the ancient rite of Tharraisce, a ritual during which individuals are tied to rope which is then looped beneath the currach, then thrown overboard and pulled under the keel of the vessels, their backs dragged from side to side of the ship, cutting open their backs by the marine growth on the underside of the currachs while drowning the individuals sentenced to such death is held out past the sea stacks in the middle of the Cove.
The location of the villages permits trading with the Gabhatine preservers to the south, which makes the Hills extremely rich and popular in resources for the Galuyn people.
Ultimately while originally nomadic in nature, the wavewalkers of the Farraige a Rugadh Hills have come to make the area their permanent home due to the plentiful abundance of marine life of the cove which keeps them fed, the open trades between other Galuyn tribes, and the now peaceful relations between the Gilneans. While the Hills were formerly always contested territory with the Lords of the Fallow Crest attempting to take over, the matter resolved itself when Aleyina Nathair opened relations with the Galuyns once more, granting them their Hills uncontested and allowing for Galecrest, Windholme, and Iscia's Rest to serve as a buffer from any further attacks. In turn the Galuyn tribes offered the same protection should Iscia's Rest or the other surrounding Baronies be attacked.
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The Duchy of the Ashen Coast | ||
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Court of the Coast |
Marches of the Ashen Coast | The Bite · The Range · The Reach · The Fallow Crest |
Locations | Ashen Coast · Ashwake Gulf · Dark Woods · Dread Sleuth · Icecrest Mountains (Dun Boldihr) | |
The Bite |
Houses | House of Grayblade · House of Enderlain · House of Cobalstant · House of Savastera · House of Delcarn · House of Hartvale · House of Winbrook · House of Ashtone |
Locations | Earldom of the Howling Woods (Bannhurst · Fang Tower · Fargath's Claim · Mistholme · Ravendale · Viscounty of Graston (Cobal's Hold) · Viscounty of Lunargrove (Karnsburg) · Barony of the Veil (Mistvale)) · Viscounty of the Hart (The Hartreave) · Barony of the Crooked Hollow (Blackfall Reach) · Barony of Beau's Tooth (Light's Hand · Vulpin Isle) · Baronety of the Gull (Clockrush · The Perch) · Baronetcy of the Vigil (Vigil) · Governance of Quel'Shala (Quel'Shala) | |
The Range |
Houses | House of Greydon · House of Chesterhill · House of Haven · House of Houndsbane · House of Fairfax · House of Blackshire · House of Adler |
Locations | Earldom of Gryphon's Roost (Gryphonvale, Xavier's Keep, Solace) · Barony of the Dusk Thicket (Darkhaven, Clidna's Rest) · Baronetcy of Kentington (Kentington) · Barony of Fang's Grip (Hound's Ward)) · Earldom of Westmarch (Barony of Edenford (Edenford, Fort Gaelik, Crossbrook) · Barony of the Sheer (Belvet's Landing, Stormbrook)) · Earldom of the Grand Fields (Viscounty of the Palefield (Palefield) · Baronetcy of Northfield (Northfield) · Baronetcy of the Mill (Millcrest)) · Barony of the Dale (Fyron's Dale) | |
The Reach |
Houses | House of Greyfield · House of Darkoak · House of Crithe · House of Lockewood · House of Orren · House of Darkwatcher · House of Marshoak · House of Frostoak · House of Woodcourt · House of Karanes · House of Lancewroth |
Locations | Earldom of the Tip (Brandon's Stead · Barony of the Roost (Highroost) · The Galuyn Territories (Wickenden City, Ethur'ok Woods, The Pale Grounds, Ruileas)) · Earldom of the Gale (Rosefield · Baronetcy of Ironsea (Seaward Port) · Barony of Ironwood (Ironwood Keep, Hirene Marsh)) · Earldom of the Frost (Chilled Grove, Icefur Den, Bleakrise · Baronetcy of the Shiverwreath (Winterdown) · Baronetcy of Cleftridge (Frostbreak)) · Viscounty of the Crimson Ridge (Ridgebreaker Keep, Falconrise) · Viscounty of the Oak (Cedarfall, Oakwood) · Baronetcy of Vayden's Fall (Vayden's Fall) | |
The Fallow Crest |
Houses | House of Nathair · House of Warpwood · House of Fletchworth · House of Ritheor · House of Daneclaw · House of Levinge · House of a'Leron · House of Grayblade (cadet) |
Locations | Earldom of Iscia's Cove (Iscia's Rest. Farraige a Rugadh Hills · Viscounty of Galecrest (Galecrest) · Barony of Birkenhide (Birkenhide) · Barony of Windholm (Windholm)) · Viscounty of Echeryne (Echeryne) · Barony of Falkenstone (Falkenstone) · Barony of Westbreak (Westbreak) · Barony of Midhurst (Midhurst, Bleakhall) · Barony of Alnwick (Alnwick) | |
Neighboring Regions |
Locations | Duchy of Gravemarch (Taenia) · Rignweald (Fairwind Port, Ashridge, Oakheart, Snakehollow) · Cyrvall |