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Battle for Wesnoth video game setting
Tric raps on the open door to his Uncle Thrandolil’s study. The walls here are partially composed of still-living branches that wind through the room. Each V created by a branch splitting off from its parent serves as a resting place for a scroll. Bound books lay in stacks on all the flat surfaces, sharing … Read more
Elsewhere in Estbryn Forest, in a stately home with soaring white birch walls and delicate thatched roofing the color of jade, Hepalonia reclines in the sitting room with a book. She had hoped it would contain interesting information, but if it does, it is well hidden. So far, she has only encountered dry essays about … Read more
To the east, beyond the River Weldyn, in the lower regions of the Estmark Hills, stands a small forest of even smaller renown. On maps of the continent produced in the human kingdom of Wesnoth, it is marked, if at all, with but a handful of trees, and no name is attached to it. The … Read more
Lord Thrandolil of Estbryn Forest commissions his daughter Hepalonia and nephew Tric Manu, two young elves at loose ends, to seek a magical artifact on his behalf.
Tric Manu is a talkative half-elf raised by Nasir of the Water Dowsers in Estbryn Forest. Rather than searching for moisture, however, he prefers swapping tales with the local Storyteller, Breda. His cousin Heppa is unusually close in age, so the two have bonded somewhat. While strictly speaking he is trained in neither bow nor … Read more
Hepalonia of House Thrandolil (Heppa) is the daughter of Estbryn Forest nobles and grew up with an easy life, sheltered from her mother’s ambitions by the duty of her older sister and doted upon by her scholarly father. As elvish nobility, she is fairly naive and ignorant about the world most people inhabit, but she … Read more
Wesnoth: Echoes of Invasion is a tabletop roleplaying campaign set in the world of the video game The Battle for Wesnoth.
