Spring Duchy

🌼 Architecture

Buildings in small and large towns are modelled after traditional Germanic architecture - half timbered houses, often painted in vibrant colours with visible slats and many window flower boxes. 

The Spring Court castle - The Spring Court in the city of Robellia is inspired by traditional stone German castles with pointed spires and blue roof tiling.

🌼 Clothing

Since the weather is generally always pleasantly warm, skirts and shorts can be worn (with a shawl to fend off the cooler mornings). Clothing takes after traditional German clothing like lederhosen and dirndls (blouses, pinafores, vests).

🌼 Races

Playable Races: High Fae, Sprites, Selkies, Dryads, Stonefolk, Critters, Wildlings, Fairies. 

• High Fae — very common all over this Realm even out of Court settings. Perfect conditions for a flower being.

• Sprites — very common.

• Selkies — common.

• Dryads — common.

• Stonefolk — common.

• Critters — common.

• Wildlings — common.

• Fishfolk — common (visitors). There are river Inns and Hostels along the rivers for Fishfolk to stay at as tourists.

• Fairies — common.

• Arachnus — none.

• Non-playable races — all other Fae creatures can live in this realm too. It is the most hospitable, and the largest Duchy.

🌼 Wildlife

Bears, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, birds of all sorts, turtles, frogs, boars, badgers, deer, elk, wolves, otters, horses, lynxes, hares and rabbits.

🌼 Travel

Citizens travel via horse drawn wagon, horse, pony or donkey mount, oxen carts.

🌼 Industry

• Agriculture

• Animal Husbandry

• Craftsmanship

• Cultural and Creative Arts

🌼 Important Figures

• Langley – High Fae Duchess of the Spring Duchy, and ruler of the Spring Court. Ranunculus Accolade type.

• Fridenot - High Fae Duke of the Spring Duchy, and ruler of the Spring Court. Dutch Iris type.

• The Greenbriars - The Spring Court Knights

🌼 Locations

• Robellia — Capital City of the Spring Court. Nestled between idyllic Spring Alps.

  • Cathedral of Rhiannon — A beautiful Cathedral dedicated to Rhiannon. Known for its stunning stained glass.

  • The University of Robellia — A prestigious University that offers many classes but specializes in Meteorology.

• Ringshire — An idyllic residential shire.

• Feidhelm — A farming town.

  • Murphy's School of Summoning — a college set up by a summoning magician to teach other budding magical talents in the area how to practice this form of magic. The school operates out of a small, abandoned church and is more 'work experience' rather than theory and tests. The founder, an Otter critter called Murphy, only takes 3 students at a time and is quite eccentric.

• Catriona — A farming town.

• Cillicia — A farming and flower growing town.

• Elspeth — A mining and smithing town.

• Fionnachrae — A sacred, ancient lake thought to be the site of a great magic ritual.

• Dunn — Massive forest.

  • Dunscairne — A massive stone fortress taken over by a Thieves guild.

• Stratton — A bustling town near Robellia known for their beehives. They make many types of flavoured honey, some with healing properties or other magical effects. They have some giant bees here too and they are sacred to the town.

• Inverton — A lively town popular with artisans. Has lots of taverns and a ampitheatre nearby the townsfolke are very proud of. Sometimes visited by legendary satyr brothers Puck and Pan.

• Selkie Camp: Brydee (north-west) — 

• Aberdale — Residential town on a canal.

• Kilfinley — A deeply religious town with lots of inquisitors and mystics.

• Ardmullan — A farming and smithing town that smith lots of armour and weapons. Has a tannery and lots of farm animals.

• Breagha — An animal husbandry town. Lots of great magical pet shops here.

• Lochtara — A bustling market town known for its artisanal crafts and trade fairs. 

• Critter Woods — Community of inter-connected critter towns in a lush forest.

• Finnach Moor — Mysterious and sacred moor used for magical practices like divination, scrying, casting spells.

• Dunlough — Ancient castle high up on a hill. They say its haunted.

• Airdree — Specializes in crafting enchanted textiles and clothing that offer protection and magical enhancements. Also a farming town.

• Brannock Valley — Surrounded by ancient trees, Brannock valley is a center for druidic studies and nature magic. 

• Lismarke — Known for its healing hot springs and beautiful plum blossoms. A hospital and sanctuary here.

• Glasshouse — Known for its vast glass conservatory that houses rare and exotic magical plants, serving as a research center. 

• Lochwynd — Home to Aunt Virginia's Corrective School - a manners school for wayward young fae. Virginia (grandiflora rose high fae) teaches them etiquette, court politics, needlework and music, poetry, history, diplomacy etc. A beautiful place, despite the frightening and strict Virginia.

• Sionnach — Has a museum with ancient ruins and archives. Protected fiercely by locals - they are very proud of their relics.

• Kilgraggan — A serene seaside town famous for its boat-building artisans who craft vessels with magical properties. 

• Lugh's Glade — Sacred grove where time seems to stand still. Many fae have gotten lost here and never returned.

• Clonmara — Farming town.

• Rothlinn — A secretive town popular with mercenaries, spies and mystics. Encased in woods.

• Selkie Camp: Daleton (south-east) — A secluded selkie settlement known for its underwater agriculture and seaweed farming. 

• Galbraith — Cherry blossom town. Renowned for its enchanted cherry blossoms and is a center for training in floral magic and botany. 

• Morwen Mines — An underground town where rare crystals are mined and crafted into powerful magical artifacts. 

• Fionnway Channel — A long channel connecting the Spring Duchy to the Summer Duchy. Enchanted boats traverse the waterways, transporting goods and people. 

• Braithcarron — A mining and artificing town. Quite technologically advanced for the Spring Duchy.

• Mathonwy — A peaceful village known for its lavender fields and production of calming potions and elixirs. 

• Rhiann — A town named after Rhiannon, they raise horses. Lots of wild horses in the surrounding plains as well.

• Caerlyn — A town with a university known for its Arithmancy and History courses.

• Tirnagh — A town known for its sunflowers and solar research.

• Glentharan — A way station town with an excellent and popular hotel.