Chetwood

Chetwood
Region:	Bree-land
Dungeon(s):	Blackwold Camp Brigand Cave
Landmark(s):	Big Staddlemere Blackwold Headquarters Combe Lumber Camp The Crumbled Court Old Bauman's Farm Ost Baranor Silverwell Skunkwood's Farm Staddle Falls Stump Field Torthann's Camp Wolf Den Woodsedge Ruins The Yellow Tree
Connecting Area(s):	Andrath Archet Dale Bree Combe Far Chetwood The Midgewater Marshes Staddle Weather Hills
Levels:	Mainly 8 - 12
Resource tier:	Apprentice

Chetwood is an area within Bree-land in the eastern region.

This woody area is found in south-eastern Bree-land but not as far to the east as the Midgewater Marshes. To the north lies the wild woods of the Far Chetwood. These days the greater Staddle divides Chetwood into two separate sections, in daily speech called "Chetwood South" and "Chetwood North". Earlier the northern and southern parts used to be one unified forest, but now heavy logging by woodcutters from Combe and Staddle have made it two larger pockets of trees.

Northern Chetwood is a large and wild forest between Combe and the Weather Hills. Woodcutters at Combe Lumber Camp are worried because a pack of Blackwold brigands have set camp and they raid and harass the neighbourhood. They also mention that recently the wildlife behaves unnaturally wild. Rumours whisper that some have even seen Angmarim Warriors deep in the woods wielding all sorts of wicked powers.

Southern Chetwood is a smaller wood straight south of the greater Staddle. The Great East Road crosses this wood on its way from Bree to the Lone-lands. The wildlife is threatening travellers and nearby residents. However, something must be special with this wood since there is an enchanted yellow tree growing athwart the main road and tales tell about a magic pond with an exquisitely beautiful water maiden. Blackwold activity has been reported in these woods as well, though not to the degree of the north.

New Man characters will adventure in the northern as well as the southern woods, setting out first from Combe and then from Staddle. In fact, it is in these very woods that these characters journey begins when they are first taken captive by the brigands. Explorers will pass through to research the ruins of Bree-land and the history of the Dúnedain.

Locations

Blackwold Headquarters

Combe Lumber Camp

Ost Baranor

Woodsedge Ruins

The Yellow Tree

Landmarks

• Big Staddlemere
• Blackwold Headquarters
• Combe Lumber Camp
• The Crumbled Court
• Old Bauman's Farm
• Ost Baranor
• Silverwell
• Skunkwood's Farm
• Staddle Falls
• Stump Field
• Torthann's Camp
• Wolf Den
• Woodsedge Ruins
• The Yellow Tree

Dungeons

• Blackwold Camp
• Brigand Cave

NPCs

See "list of NPCs" within Chetwood

NPC	Function	Coords
Constable Wren	Quest	[29.1S, 48.3W]
Filbert Burrows	Quest	[28.6S, 46.0W]
Will Hindmarsh	Quest - Festival	[33.0S, 49.9W]
Watcher

Quests

See "starting quests" and the landmarks for more quests
Starting:

• [...] The Pond - Farmers Faire

Involving:

• [1] Intro (Man), Instance: Jail Break
• [8] The Logger's Ledger
• [8] Prologue: Finding Amdir
• [9] Mourning the Dead
• [9] Posco's Uncle
• [9] Reconnecting Ties
• [9] Unpaid Debts
• [10] Quality and Character
• [11] Lily's Secret
• [12] Dangerous Boars
• [50] Vol. I, Book 9, Chapter 3: Journey to Combe
• [...] Stocking the Pond - Festival

Creatures

The following creatures are found within this area:

• Adolescent Brown-bear
• Baugarch
• Bhaltair
• Blackwold Bowman
• Blackwold Look-out
• Blackwold Outlaw
• Blackwold Poacher
• Blackwold Raider
• Blackwold Scout
• Blackwold Sergeant
• Blackwold Thief
• Broken-tusk Bristlehide
• Brown-bear
• Captain Dogwood
• Chetwood Spider
• Cole Sickleleaf
• Feral Brown-bear
• Feral Dusk-wolf
• Foraging Brown-bear
• Jagger Jack
• Mad Badger
• Masked Badger
• Monstrous Dusk-wolf
• Rabid Bristlehide
• Rampaging Bristlehide
• Vance Waithman

Critters

• Brown Fox
• Red Squirrel
• Spotted Field Buck
• Spotted Field Doe

Lore

"The Hobbits began to settle in ordered communities. Most of their earlier settlements had long disappeared and been forgotten in Bilbo's time; but one of the first to become important still endured, though reduced in size; this was at Bree and in the Chetwood¹ that lay round about (...).

"Whether because of Strider's skill or for some other reason, they saw no sign and heard no sound of any other living thing all that day: neither two-footed, except birds; nor four-footed, except one fox and a few squirrels. (...) On the third day out from Bree² they came out of the Chetwood." — The Fellowship of the Ring, by Tolkien

1 The area of Archet, Combe and the greater Staddle.

2 III 3018, September 25 — about the time for the early chapters of Vol. I, Book 2.

Maps

Gallery

• 
  Bear den behind Combe
• 
  Construction site in outside Combe
• 
  Great East Road through the southern Chetwood
• 
  Spider infested ruins in Northern Chetwood
• 
  A Blackwold camp in Northern Chetwood
• 
  Waterfall by the lumber camp
• 
  Unmarked ruins used by Blackwolds
• 
  Large pond in the southernmost Chetwood