Nyridda Heartlands

By 8 SGT, the settlements of the Nyridda Heartlands have run out of money to keep having food shipped in, and soil fertility is at a minimum with the lack of moisture. The region lacks the political importance to attract aid from better-off regions. Efforts to restore the Nerys River to its previous course have staled, as residents become weak with hunger.

In 11 SC, residents of the Heartlands have successfully restored the Nerys River to its former course, and they celebrate their first successful harvest. As agreed, the fruit shipments from the feywild end. However the residents of the heartlands find that other food tastes ashen and fails and satisfy, and they begin to grow ill again. Wren Barrowright embarks through the tree portal to the Feywild to request more fruit, along with two other residents, and all fail to return. However a servant is eventually sent through, and after several weeks, Lord Kestrin agrees to resume the fruit shipments, if the heartlands agree to send him a new servant each year at midsummer, for as long as he deems fit. The residents aren't happy about the deal proposed, but finally agree out of desperation. The fruit shipments resume.