Greenmeadow

Rolling green country, timbered villages and slow rivers. Where most tales begin.

Landmark

the Standing Stones

Folk

meadowfolk, human farmers of timbered villages

Dragon

Briarwing

Climate

mild, summer storms, morning mist

Hazards

summer storms, stampedes, slimes, bears

Trades

grain, honey, wool, timber

Summer storms that matter

Lightning splits the tall lone trees, leaving a stump and a charred split trunk, and lights small grass fires round them that the rain puts out; a hero out in the open beside a struck tree is struck too. Beasts and folk run for shelter, thunder stampedes the herds, and afterwards the ground is soft to dig.

You will notice: The sky darkens and the flashes come; beasts make for cover and the folk put up their shutters; afterwards a split tree smokes in the meadow and a rainbow stands over it.

What helps: Storm Ward Potion

Herds on the move

On migration days the wild horse and bison herds leave their grounds and cross the meadows along their routes, grazing as they go, then walk back; thunder stampedes them, and a stampeding beast knocks down whoever stands in its way.

You will notice: Dust and hoofbeats over the meadow, and a trail of flattened grass behind the herd.

What helps: Wooden Fence, Palisade

Firefly nights

On warm, clear summer evenings the meadow's fireflies rise out of the long grass by the hedges, the wood edges and the water in great swarms that flash together, a wave of light rolling across each, and light the grass under them. A hero cups a handful by hand (a swarm cupped up stays thin for three nights), and lifts the glow-worm that shines steady on a grass stem at the middle of some. The night beasts answer them: foxes leap at the lights, slimes come up out of the wet grass to swallow them and glow, the big slimes prowl after the slimes, snails pull in from the glow-worms' larvae, and the bear wades into the shallows where the lights bring the fish up.

You will notice: Pools of green-gold light over the grass at dusk, blinking on and off together, thickest along the hedgerows and the water; a fox crouched and leaping in the glow; a slime lit green from inside.

What helps: Glass Jar