What once was lost, now is found. Still, it is not all
pleasant to see. Formerly the "Lost Barony", Baywood
has been reclaimed, but not fully restored. Throughout
the most western of the baronies of Rowan Oak, gaping
holes of Banality's taint still rend the Enchanted
landscape.
As if in retaliation , the rest of the barony is vivid
with a terrible beauty. Chimerae, many of them savage,
roam the dreamscape. Caught in between too little
glamour and too much chaos, it's little wonder that
this is the barony least populated by kithain.
Still, hope rises and order slowly returns under the
guidance of the new Baron Dar'Nall ap Gwydion and Baroness
Celeste ap Eiluned, whose shared quest has restored the long forsaken freehold.
Off the beaten path, an old and unusually large hunting lodge rests
dangerously close to a waterfall. Overgrown rose
bushes, and other flora turned feral in the long years
of dereliction, abound. Ivy clings like a twisting
tapestry over a corner of the lodge.
To Enchanted eyes, the freehold stands less a hunting
lodge, and more of Tudor manor-house crafted of dark
wood, surrounded by equally dark chimeric roses with
gleaming silvered thorns. The Ivy twines about as if a
coiling serpent. The windows are crafted of thick
chimeric crystal set in lattices shaped like Celtic
oghams.
The manor promises haven amidst the wild wood, but true
adventure lies outside its walls in the darkling dells of
the old-growth forest where sudden beauty startles the eye
and danger awaits the unwary.
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