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The Nelwyn Valley was an isolated valley of the river Freen on the Western continent of the Andowyne. It was home to most of the Nelwyn population, which colonized the vale in 1342 BBN.

Geography[]

Nelwyn Valley was a verdant valley carved by the River Freen and sheltered by twin ranges of hills collectively known as the Nelwyn Hills. The lower hills held copper deposits in commercial amounts, along with smaller amounts of tin and iron. Every hill was named, but each village gave the hills a different set of names.[1]

There were not just one, but dozens of communities of Nelwyns, which had little contact with each other. Most of them lay along the Freen, as Nelwyns prefered to live by the water, but a few settlements lay inland.[1] Far to the north of the Valley, in an area of marshes and conical hills, lived the fisher-Nelwyns, who lived off the fish of the Freen. To the south lived the Nelwyn hunters and woodcutters, whose cabins dotted the hillsides and clustered beside streams that tumbled to the Freen. Farther south, where the farms began, the hawk watched cattle rising in their pastures and small sleepy men stretching in the sun. Far to the south, the Freen left the Valley and deepened, beginning its long run through the Low Kingdoms to the coast. Directly below lay one particular village, to which the homestead of Ufgood Reach was bound.[2]

History[]

The Nelwyns moved into the Valley exactly 1342 years before the fall of Bavmorda, at least according to their own meticulous records. The presumed date of that the first settlers, known as the Forerunners, saw the vale came to be celebrated in Nelwyn villages as Arrival Day. Elves lived in the valley at the time, and the two races got along peacefully for centuries, until the elves mysteriously left.[1]

As time went by, the Nelwyn communities became so prosperous that the neighboring Daikini kingdoms began to name the area Nelwyn Valley on their maps. Apart from a few bandit incursions, which were fiercely repelled, the Daikinis left the Nelwyns alone. In fact, the first major change in the life of the valley came with the discovery of copper deposits in the lower hills about a century before the fall of Bavmorda.[1]

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