The Wilds

The wilds of Harn are mysterious, vast and infested with a myriad different secrets. Home to strange little villages, each with its own customs and beliefs (which Luudhoqians and other southerners refer to as superstitions), home to witches and warlocks, home to hermits, rangers, druids and banished magi, amongst many others. Welcome to the outposts and far-flung reaches of Harnian society... places to test the resolve and sanity of any unwary traveller.

The various circles of witches and warlocks are feared throughout Harn, but also respected, especially in the north of the land, where they are viewed with a mixture of dread and something akin almost to worship.

Witches, and their male counterparts, warlocks, form an important part of the mythology and also the more recent history of Harn. Many independent healers are witches or warlocks- though the majority of these do not advertise the fact. Many people in the land hold certain preconceptions about witches and warlocks; they would say that they are wild, insane, chaotic, destructive, and care little for anything except themselves- their own advancement as 'mages of Nature'. Some of these preconceptions may be partly correct- some of them are wild, and they care little for the law of the land where it does not coincide with their own perception of morality. Some of them are thought to be lunatics, others are mildly eccentric. Some are destructive, others are passionately creative. In fact, like any other group of people, they are a mixed sort. Some of them are certainly evil, a blight upon society, whereas others are (relatively) good and true individuals who attempt to do their best for others as well as themselves. Unlike druids, who are concerned with the balance of nature, from a generally religious perspective, witches and warlocks are concerned with the force of Nature, the power of the Earth Magic that flows untamed in the wild parts of the land.