Territory

The Thornsnarl is a wild and dangerous tract of land to the furthest reaches of the Eastern Shroud, past the Hanging Barbs of the Sylphlands and nearing the ocean's edge. Largely untouched by the more modern influences of Gridania and the slow spread of civilization outward from the city's center, the territory has been safeguarded and kept by the Bloodmoon clan since their earliest cross of the frozen seas from Meracydia. Before becoming the seat of power, the home territory and the hunting grounds for the Bloodmoon and their kin, it was an untamed wilderness many struggled to to eke out a meager existence within with the near constant threat of elemental retribution, large predatory population and beast folk alike.

Geography
As its name may imply, the Thornsnarl is an expansive and thickly settled mass of brambles that choke massive trees that blot out much of the sky from view, though there are some obvious breaks within the primordial canopy that permit the passage of light. What land they have been able to reclaim from the encroaching press of the wood has been carefully cultivated over the years, building living structures out of trees to live in harmony with nature or removing as little as they can when making space to live. By and large, it is a sprawling wilderness untouched by the hand of mortals, with each private enclave that houses its occupants hidden by tangles.

From ancient entryways to still standing ruins that dot the wilderness, the evidence of early Gelmorran civilization hides beneath the surface in labyrinthine underground complexes, necessitating careful vigil when it was discovered that such places had a proclivity for spawning ashkin, soulkin or voidsent. It was for this reason that the Bloodmoon - once erectors of burial barrows and stone cairns to mark the passage of their kin - began to posthumously burn their dead, though the first graves they dug for their departed are still resident, if not entirely overtaken by the wild.

Ekhinu Grounds
Turning Leaf

Stranglehold

Everbloom Wilds

Garahl Grounds
Dalamud's Maw

Sentinel's Vigil

Houndsteeth

Rihza Grounds
Silvershade Falls

Whispering Copses

The Dogwood

Lbaaloh Grounds
Lady's Mirror

Moondrop Grove

Okohwe Grounds
Rosewood Arbor

Bleeding Hollow

Okh Ha-Ukr Ruins

Neutral Grounds
The Veil

Willowweep

Heartsmurmur

Littlepaw Lake