Weirwater Vales
Overview
The Weirwater Vales are located in Wickmoor in the Dawnish territory of Weirwater. Custodianship of the Vales grants an Imperial title; a seat on the Imperial Bourse; and a seasonal bounty of valuable weirwood
The Resource
Weirwater is named for the forests that dot this landscape and the rich supplies of weirwood they produce. Legend claims that the first weavers made a pact with the Eternals to make the land fertile, but that the magic has slowly dwindled with time.
- Reference lack of Dawn resources?
No one knows if the legends of a pact are true, never mind what the terms of this supposed pact were. But the workers in Weirwater know some things are all too well; that there is something in the woods that is called The Valewoman, and that under every tree lies a corpse.
Sightings of The Valewoman go back as long as anyone can remember. Nobody knows who or what The Valewoman is, just that she is seen as a figure in the distance every so often, and is gone before anyone can get there. As she has been seen as long as the Weirwater Vales have been worked, tales abound as to the real reason she is there, but most point to the fact that whenever a tree has been felled, and the stump excavated, the workers find a corpse.
Sometimes the corpse is just bones amongst the roots, and sometimes it looks fresh enough to have just stopped breathing. No-one knows who they were, or how they got there (especially the fresher looking corpses). Just one truth; every tree stands atop a corpse. It is no surprise that, mentally at least, the workers of Weirwater Vales are some of the toughest in the Empire.