❂ The Sunday Forest ❂
Just outside of the town of Bryde sits a lovely dark green forest. There are many paths through this forest, but there is one in particular that makes this place special. Should you be lucky enough to find this road that twists and turns and winds oddly through the forest, you will find it over grown with bean and pea plants. Beans to the left, peas to the right. If you should follow this path, it will lead you to an old abandoned house, or at least what is left of the place after so long. This place was the home of a band of robbers long ago, who would send one man out to pretend to be a wealthy, well off man to entice fathers to give up their daughters. Once engaged to marry the girls, the robbers would keep up the rouse until they'd taken all that they could, then they would marry the girls and take them home to the house in the wood. There the robbers would have the women drink three different wines, one of white, one of red, and one of yellow, killing them.
One Sunday The soon to be bride of one of the robbers came out to the forest to find her path strewn with ashes, as he bridegroom had told her it would be. She followed the path to the house in the wood, but the robbers were not there. An old woman was who she found instead, and the woman warned the bride that her bridegroom was a robber and would kill her if he could. Before she could leave, the robbers brought home another of the brides and fed her the wines, one white, one red, and one yellow, and she fell down dead. The bridegroom saw a ring on the dead brides finger and took it off, but it slipped and flew through the air into the brides lap. The old woman told him to ignore it and find it later and he did just that. The bride, hiding and fearing for her life, waited until the robbers were asleep and ran away with the old woman. The bride was clever, though, and went on with the plans. On the day of the wedding, with all of her fathers friends and relations, the bride told the story of her adventure to her bridegroom, but under the guise that it was "only a dream". When the tale was over the bride held up the ring and watched as the robber-bridegroom grew pale in fear and tried to run away. When the guests caught him and his band, they were hanged for their deeds in the square of the town.
Since then, the forest has been known as the Sunday Forest, and the beans and peas, and the house as well, a constant reminder of the terrible events that occurred there. Now this forest is within the Jurisdiction of the Shadow Council.
One Sunday The soon to be bride of one of the robbers came out to the forest to find her path strewn with ashes, as he bridegroom had told her it would be. She followed the path to the house in the wood, but the robbers were not there. An old woman was who she found instead, and the woman warned the bride that her bridegroom was a robber and would kill her if he could. Before she could leave, the robbers brought home another of the brides and fed her the wines, one white, one red, and one yellow, and she fell down dead. The bridegroom saw a ring on the dead brides finger and took it off, but it slipped and flew through the air into the brides lap. The old woman told him to ignore it and find it later and he did just that. The bride, hiding and fearing for her life, waited until the robbers were asleep and ran away with the old woman. The bride was clever, though, and went on with the plans. On the day of the wedding, with all of her fathers friends and relations, the bride told the story of her adventure to her bridegroom, but under the guise that it was "only a dream". When the tale was over the bride held up the ring and watched as the robber-bridegroom grew pale in fear and tried to run away. When the guests caught him and his band, they were hanged for their deeds in the square of the town.
Since then, the forest has been known as the Sunday Forest, and the beans and peas, and the house as well, a constant reminder of the terrible events that occurred there. Now this forest is within the Jurisdiction of the Shadow Council.
