Emerald Wind

Emerald Winds is a Duchy of Winter's Edge, located in Huntsville, Alabama.

Heraldry

Created by the Rat Mother

History

Founded in August of 2004 by Sidius, Margax, Detrik, and Kidd; with the park's first official sign-in on February 15, 2005. As with all groups they started small but with time grew and found itself as a barony sponsored under Winter's Edge of Neverwinter and drawing more than 20 players weekly. In 2017 it left Neverwinter with Winter's edge when the Principaity became a Kingdom.

The park went defunct in 2019, and was reopened again in 2022 by Sidious, Haraldr, Corvo, and Toast
Elevated again to Barony in February 2023
Elevated for the first time to Duchy August 2023

People

Lore

After the sundering of Master Wizard Sidious' Tower and accompanying pocket dimension, several pure elementals escaped into Emerald Winds, disrupting the balance of nature around the city and it's holding. Many quests and adventures were had in destroying the elementals to restore the previous balance, though one person, Anya, seemed content absorbing their power. A period of relative peace followed, though a slow decline set in afterwards.

The hard times began in earnest when the star fell on Winter's Edge. A single star glassed the surrounding farmlands of the city, making the land barren and difficult to work. However, a blessing from Gaia herself helped return the fields to life, though it was abit too much, and caused the tall wheat to overrun the forests and town itself. While the balance was able to restored, the town never fully recovered and slowly dwindled into ruin.

When the town reopened, it quickly grew to a thriving barony. Now boasting Sidious' magic college and Haraldr's battlemaster academy, with a very popular tavern on the town square run by a collective of Rats. Though now, with the expansion of the realm, An ongoing war between Gnomes and Fairies leaked into Amtgard, with Emerald Winds caught in the middle aiding whichever side is paying more.

The people of Emerald Winds aided in the ending of the Gnome-Fairy War by helping to reconcile two twins: Timber Twinkle-Tinker and Tunder Tinker-Twinkle. By reconnecting these two half-gnome half-fairies separated at birth with the roots of their other parent, they came together and created a popular front against war profiteers who had been keeping the war going, thus bringing peace to the lands.

As the lands cleared from the war, a purple miasma appear to the northwest of the realm. The Duke dispatched several adventurers to discover the source of it. When they approached, they were told to go away by a mad scientist who was indifferent to the apparent color-neutralizing effects of the cloud; this cloud prevented people from entering, teleporting people a ways back. One adventurer, Corvo, inhaled much of the miasma, which caused him to become incredibly strong and dangerous. Attempts were made to contain him, but they all failed.

It was discovered that Corvo had gone to engage in battle with the scientist, who had been using the miasma to keep people away from a rift in the fabric of reality, which an eldritch being was attempting to enter. Brave adventurers entered the rift and repelled an avatar of this being, causing it to stop attempting to enter into Amtgard. The rift was later closed, and the mad scientist detained and executed.

Then, the ancient place of power, a mystic travel nexus which was being held by the Gnomes, was attacked and taken over by the fairies. With the ancient place of power under their control the fairies can now show up any where at any time. Soon after, Gnome congress was attacked by monsters wielding weapons of strange magic that directly hurt the targets sense of humor! The fighters of emerald winds successfully defended the speaker of the house, and the gnomes want to get to bottom of who sent those monsters.

Directions, Contacts.

For more information about meeting up with the park and location please be sure to visit our Facebook page. We strongly encourage all aspects of Amtgard; battle games, ditching, role play, and more.. Feel free to look us up; we always love to have visitors.

• Main Meeting Time: Sundays at 1pm, at California Street Park; 708 SE California Street, Huntsville AL 35801
• Fighter Practice: Wednesdays at 4pm, at Monrovia Public Library; 254 Allen Drake Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35806

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