Gladelords of Tauslech
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The Gladelords of Tauslech are a collective of 11 Simulacra that are bound to an area within the Vale Forest by a skill from the Veltras Family.
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As the ages passed and the great forests dwindled and perished, remnant beings who were used as puppets remained bounded to the area known as the Congress of Root and Steel while their original possessors died. With little power and purpose they laid dormant until they sensed something that had awoken them to act to revive the Vale Forest.[1] It's revealed by the Grand Design that it was the presence of Silverpine at the party on the Summer Solstice that reactivated them.[2]
There are two requirements in order to enter the Congress of Root and Steel; one of the beings entering must have the bloodline of House Veltras and the other is being on Izril.[1]
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During the invasion of the Five Families on Northern Izril several thousand years ago, beings of the Vale Forest made a pact with House Veltras that created a location-bound skill within the Vale Forest which became known as the Congress of Root and Steel. Here 12 beings of the forest would use their simulacrum to engage with the Veltrases to debate and combat one another in order to come to an accord.[1]
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The Gladelords harass those of The Wandering Inn, such as sending Bush Shamblers at them or conjuring up wooden arms, after Lyonette numerous times impedes Nanette's and Hethon's efforts in bringing them the Ironwood Wand which bears the seed of a Dryad.[3]
Taletevirion, Rhisveri and Visophecin enter the inn to make a request for the wand, after a bit of havoc Lyonette decides to take the matter into her own hands by leading a group to go on a trip to meet the lords and ladies of the Vale Forest.[4]
Lyonette, Taletevirion, Rhisveri, Visophecin, Nanette, Hethon, Bird, Dalimont, Todi, Elosaith, Jericha, and Vaulont enter the Congress of Root and Steel encountering the Gladelords of Tauslech. Throughout their talks they reveal that it's the Dyed Lands they have sense that has become a Great Forest that can foster the growth of the Dryad, Taletevirion seeing the futility in that removing the wand from the Gladefolks possession causing an altercation to occur. The Unicorn kills Skytree Orelic-Deyana forcing the other Gladelords to back down lest they lose another of their number, beaten and subdued Lyonette gives them one last chance to plead their case for the unborn child. They make a pact with Lyonette as recompense for the harassment they sent.[1]
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- Tree of Vale Simulacrum (Deceased) - Likely died from the backlash from the death of the Vale Forest World Tree.
- Skytree Orelic-Deyana Simulacrum (Deceased) - Killed by Taletevirion.
- Swamp of Oswenia Simulacrum
- Tree of Sighs Simulacrum
- The Land That Stretches From the Ground of Quartzite to the Land Across the River Elsweit Simulacrum
- Tree of Anapulis Simulacrum
- 6 Other Gladelords