House of Nature

Notable Locations

Grove of the Unicorns

Heart-oak, mirrored pool, antler-roads, and moon-fallow orchards—Ehlonna’s cross-hall sanctum and primary portal nexus.  

Seed-Vault Terraces

Also known as Greenhall, those are crescented hills where druids keep acorn, cone, and seed lines back to first rains, annotated by lorestones. Those are rolling meadows burst with starburst flowers, and oak-ringed clearings hold lantern quays where the gentler branches of Okyanus drift by. In the Seed-Vault Terraces, clay jars and glass domes preserve the lineages of groves. Antler-Roads, elevated driftways of intertwined boughs, carry travelers above the herds so they may pass below undisturbed.    

Thundersteps

Also known as Stonehall, those are stair-cascades where storm-readers set parley and relief convoys form. In essence, it has mountain forests, which rise with cataracts and natural sky-bridges. Along the Thundersteps, storm-priests climb beside waterfalls, reading omens in wind and spray, while cliffside cloisters shelter ranger companies who guide flotillas of relief over high passes.  

Boardwalk Scriptoriums

Also known as Reedhall, these are open libraries of tide-law, trail-songs, and guest-right rulings, maintained by Azatas and oath-gardeners. Vast mirror-marshes spread into willow lanes, where boardwalk scriptoriums preserve tide-laws and trail-songs for the wardens. Every third year, the Moon-Fallow Orchards stand untouched, feeding creatures without fear, and disputes in their shade may only be resolved in song.  

Pearl Lofts

Also known as Bluehall, these are reef terraces that remember songs, treaties, and mercies as nacre. The Okyanus swells into bright headwaters and island chains, kin to Avalon itself. Pearl lofts on the isles remember ancient treaties and mercies, while kelp gardens and dolphin roads weave through coves, with sea-wardens ferrying pilgrims from sanctum to sanctum.  

Travel and Access

Okyanus High Road carries calm reaches that serve as planar lanes, where ferries and living boathouses glide between the four faces of the House and onward to the Beastlands and Arborea.   Root-Doors to Arvandor open in silver beeches or lightning-scarred oaks when a traveler can speak both what they seek and why they must seek it now.   Green Seams unfold through leaf-arches toward Krigala, and on rare blooms, petal bridges span into Feywild glades when vow-keepers bear a freely given keepsake.   Overthreads through caverns and branch-arches slip travelers into sister districts across the other layers of Elysium, though the way back always lies along a different seam.  

Inhabitants

Agathions

Leonals, avorals, ursinals, and cervidals—keep watch over the House, mount rescue missions into darker planes, and tend its hospitals, archives, and seed-banks.

Azatas

Azatas including bralani and lillends, serve as messengers, celebrants, and arbiters of song-law.

Good-hearted Fey

Nymphs, naiads, brume-dryads, and spray sprites, guide travelers with consent, ensuring safe departures, and their tricks deflect harm rather than cause it.

Petitioners of the Green

Often former rangers, farmers, healers, or wardens, are reborn with bright eyes and steady breath. They uphold guest-right, mend trails, and steward migrations and watering-rights.

Divine retinues

Retinues move through the House: Ehlonna's wardens, Silvanus' revered root-keepers, and envoys from allied gods such as Deep Sashelas' delphions or Sehanine Moonbow's moon-gardeners, each contributing to treaty work and shared harmony.

Peace of Elysium dulls open violence; blades grow heavy, voices soften, and those who choose parley discover doors and hearts opening to them.   Witness Mist rises in marshes and spray, carrying kindly truths forward while spiteful falsehood clots on the tongue and refuses to travel.   Kindling Bloom transforms fires kindled in malice into drifting flower-ash at the borders, though hearth-fires and cleansing burns keep their rightful spark.   Wildway Drift shifts paths to shield nests and nurseries; cruelty is quietly diverted into detours until the lesson is learned.   Clemency Bell tolls in the Sanctuary of Leniency when a penitent fully grasps the harm they caused, at which point sentences transform into acts of repair.     River’s Favor ensures that water walk, control water, find the path, and purpose-keyed teleports or way-walks find uncanny precision along or between Okyanus’ branches.   Mercy’s Preference makes healing, restoration, atonement, and protective magics reach farther and last longer, while evil, domination, enslavement, and fear magics strain or fail.   Performative Casting steadies spellwork when paired with singing, illuminating, mapping, planting, carving, or truthful storytelling; bystanders perceive benign magic as part of the rite.   Oathcraft anchors messages, protections, tongues, sendings, and courage-chants to a sworn vow, letting them linger and carry farther near their living mark.   Greenstep strengthens travel magics that soften passage, lengthen stride, or honor the earth, provided the journey spares the land.   Undeath Refused frays soul-harm, slavery bindings, and terror compulsions, while rites that lay the dead to rest take gentle and lasting hold.