Order of the Golden Sickle

Archdruid: Brigeth Bearfriend (female; D13; Beory) Rotund and jocular, Brigeth is no swooning damsel. She is a homely woman of 40 years with tangled red hair, dull hazel eyes, and heavy freckling. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, she leads her region with great success, having no foolish male druids doting on her beauty. She has a broad smile, speaks many languages, and is a superb diplomat. Her hand shake is as strong as a strapping man’s and she is a fierce fighter, preferring a stout bronzewood shillelagh in combat. Always at her side is an old black bear female called Jilal to whom she talks and consults as if it were a human. The old bear seems to be quite opinionated. Assistants: 3 Initiates of the 8th Circle (D10) Grove: Bramblewood (M5-98) The Archdruid’s grove is secluded in the deep Bramblewood, amidst the ruins of an ancient Beygraf ’s summer palace. Only broken remnants of gilded columns of ecru stone jut from the undergrowth of jade ferns and climbing ivy. Near the center of the grove, a circle of broken columns stands upon a pavilion of ecru stone inlaid with peacock mosaics of blue and green glass. Within the circle of columns is a tiled bath built around a spring of exceptional purity. The enchanted spring glows with the aquamarine brilliance of Celene for nine days after the Handmaiden has shown full. It is here that the archdruidess and her coterie walk and hold counsel. The magics cast by the Archduidess, especially those of scrying, are most potent when the pool holds the aquamarine brilliance of Celene within its waters. Region: Western Region Territory: Bissel, Ket, Tusmit, Ekbir, Zeif, Plains of the Paynims, Ull, Valley of the Mage Woodlands: Bramblewood, Ugudru Forest Wildlands: Dry Steppes, Lorridges, Tusman Hills, Ulsprue Mountains Bodies of Water: Lake Udrakanakar