Axewood

Axewood is a relatively small woodland on the border between upper Keoland and the Duchy of Ulek. It is said to be inhabited by a variety of faerie folk.

The Axewood strides the Sheldomar River, lying half in the Duchy of Ulek and half in northwestern Keoland, The Axewood has a reputation as a faerie land, largely untouched by the Suloise-Oeridian invasion of the Flanaess. Unicorns, treants, atomies, and grigs live here, and the Keoish are careful to cut down trees only from the peripheries of the wood. In ancient days. the forest was much more expansive, its verges reaching nearly to the outskirts of Niole Dra. However. prodigious logging of the wood by the Keoish slowly consumed the timberland. Such activity was eventually banned when the Duke of Ulek assumed a seat In council, leaving the forest with the name it ironically bears to this day. That portion of the forest east of the Sheldomar within Ulek is entirely sylvan, home to many spriggans, treants. and unicorns. This is only somewhat less true of the western half of the forest in Keoland, where more elves make their homes beneath the boughs and humans interact with the peripheries of wood by foraging and hunting sparingly, under the supervision of a local council.