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'''Fellhollow''' is a [[Dragonwilds:Power level|Power Level]] 5 region in [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]], ruled over by [[Dragonwilds:Imaru]], '''the Soul-Eater'''. The region includes underground spaces{{CiteDiscord|author=Mod Dutch|url=https://discord.com/channels/1249729853096198236/1354747412119556189/1402710983356448858|date=6 August 2025|quote=Fellhollow will have underground spaces, Dowdun Reach especially so. More evolved plans will come for Umbral Sands and Scorned Wilderness.|image=Mod Dutch Answer - Fellhollow underground and ravines.png|ctximage=KytilSeren Question - Fellhollow underground and ravines.png|ctxquote=...Will we eventually have underground areas/caves/ravines in a similar fashion like in Minecraft?|name=Fellhollow - Underground and Ravine areas}} and | |name = Fellhollow | ||
|image = Fellhollow.png | |||
|release = 15 December 2025 | |||
|update = Eye on Ashenfall - 0.10 | |||
|location = [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]] | |||
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'''Fellhollow''' is a [[Dragonwilds:Power level|Power Level]] 5 region in [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]], ruled over by [[Dragonwilds:Imaru]], '''the Soul-Eater'''. The region includes underground spaces{{CiteDiscord|author=Mod Dutch|url=https://discord.com/channels/1249729853096198236/1354747412119556189/1402710983356448858|date=6 August 2025|quote=Fellhollow will have underground spaces, Dowdun Reach especially so. More evolved plans will come for Umbral Sands and Scorned Wilderness.|image=Mod Dutch Answer - Fellhollow underground and ravines.png|ctximage=KytilSeren Question - Fellhollow underground and ravines.png|ctxquote=...Will we eventually have underground areas/caves/ravines in a similar fashion like in Minecraft?|name=Fellhollow - Underground and Ravine areas}} and is infested with all manner of undead monsters. [[Dragonwilds:Death (Grim Reaper)|Death]] will make an appearance in this region. | |||
Players will need to complete [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Slayer]] and have partially started [[Dragonwilds:Withering Heights]] to access Fellhollow.{{CiteDiscord|author=Mod Doom|url=https://discord.com/channels/1249729853096198236/1379445055869419611/1448324563862818856|date=10 December 2025|quote=You'll need to complete "Dragon Slayer" to reach the new area!|image=Mod Doom Answer - Dragon Slayer required to access Fellhollow.png|ctximage=|ctxquote=That and I believe you have to have beat the first boss to progress to the new zone anyway.}} | Players will need to complete [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Slayer]] and have partially started [[Dragonwilds:Withering Heights]] to access Fellhollow.{{CiteDiscord|author=Mod Doom|url=https://discord.com/channels/1249729853096198236/1379445055869419611/1448324563862818856|date=10 December 2025|quote=You'll need to complete "Dragon Slayer" to reach the new area!|image=Mod Doom Answer - Dragon Slayer required to access Fellhollow.png|ctximage=|ctxquote=That and I believe you have to have beat the first boss to progress to the new zone anyway.}} | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
Fellhollow was | |||
=== Pre-Withering === | |||
Fellhollow was founded by [[Dragonwilds:Amalgamated]] refugees from [[Dragonwilds:Brynmoor]], displaced during the [[Dragonwilds:Schism]], a period of violent conflict in which those deemed 'impure' were persecuted, killed, and expelled from their homes.{{CiteJournal|journal=Hard Leather Body|quote=During the schism and the inner conflicts between 'pure' humans and the Amalgamated, Wild Knights would sneak into the village and rescue persecuted Amalgamated under the dead of night.}} The violence drove communities north past the [[Dragonwilds:Garou]] and down into the earth, emerging in the region that would become their new home during the period of peace brokered between the humans and the garou in the [[Dragonwilds:Third Age]].{{CiteJournal|journal=Weathered Diary (Fellhollow)|quote=We go north. Past the garou who snarl even though we have a treaty, and then down into the deep dark of the earth in search of a new home.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Scrawled Diary Page|quote=There was peace for a while, with the garou and their dragon army. We called a truce and the garou accepted, as long as we each kept to ourselves. For decades it held.}} Former Bandosian ogres from the campaigns in [[Dragonwilds:Ghornfell]], abandoned when [[Dragonwilds:Bandos]] withdrew and with no war left to fight, joined the settlers in the same period.{{CiteJournal|journal=Zogre|quote=When some of the Bramblemead villagers left to travel north, the ogres followed them. When they arrived in Emberwood, the ogres offered to lay down their weapons and pick up farming tools instead.}} For the Amalgamated among the founders, Fellhollow represented a marked contrast to the persecution left behind.{{CiteJournal|journal=Steel Warhammer|quote=As one of the Amalgamated, born with hair of metal and skin of stone, Lionel worried that he would be as hated as the Amalgamated in Brynmoor had been, but Fellhollow proved a kinder place.}} | |||
Two dragons already inhabited the region: [[Dragonwilds:Imaru]] and her mate [[Dragonwilds:Xikotal]]. Though initially distant, both eventually approached the settlers as neighbours and extended their protection over the community. Dragonkin experimentation had stripped Imaru of the ability to bear children, and the settlers provided both dragons with cause to take on a guardianship role.{{CiteJournal|journal=Imaru|quote=Dragonkin experiments had robbed her of the one thing she craved, to be a mother. So when the humans came to the region, she convinced Xikotal that they should take them under their wing, becoming protectors and, perhaps, even parents to the fragile things.}} Imaru's elemental affinity with water brought rain to the region's crops, while Xikotal's influence calmed the winds, resulting in plentiful harvests and a growing population.{{CiteJournal|journal=Lazilly-penned Diary|quote=Her magic brought rain and his calmed the winds, so that our harvests were plentiful, and our population bloomed.}} Blessed purifying pools were created across the region to ward off illness and corruption,{{CiteJournal|journal=Purification Pool|quote=A long time ago these pools would have been blessed by Imaru and her magic. She created the water as a way to stave off illness and corruption, in the population she protected.}} and a magical Blessing was woven over each settler that bound the people of differing backgrounds together and served as a source of shared health and strength.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Second Journal|quote=They even give them this weird little thing they call a Blessing, which somehow binds them together.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Dragon-embossed Journal|quote=Gran says that's what the Blessing is, that little dragon magic in our bones. An enchantment woven over each of us, as part of the dance. It makes us healthier, makes us heartier, makes us better than before.}} | |||
[[Dragonwilds:Emberwood]] grew into a multi-faith community unlike anything else on [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]], with Saradominists and Zamorakians living and trading side by side. The villagers honoured their draconic guardians in daily life, weaving patterns of blue and black into their clothing in tribute to the dragons' dances in the sky.{{CiteJournal|journal=Fine Cloth|quote=Many of which included patterns of undulating blue and black in honour of the serpentine dances they would watch in the sky, as Imaru and Xikotal swam the air currents together.}} A civilian military force, the [[Dragonwilds:Hoplite|hoplites]], formed within the village, naming themselves after the legendary Saradominist forces of Hallow and training together each week.{{CiteJournal|journal=Fallen Hoplite's Chest|quote=This force of warrior farmers named themselves after the hoplite forces of Hallow, legendary forces spoken of in some of the Saradominist text.}} The [[Dragonwilds:Wild Knights]] established a fortress at [[Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep]] to the east. | |||
Dowdun Reach, a [[Dragonwilds:Children of Shadows|Zamorakian faction]] based across the mountains, maintained an isolationist stance despite the peace secured by the region's draconic guardians.{{CiteJournal|journal=Mithril Platelegs|quote=The Children of Shadows became paranoid about the prospect of attack and betrayal. It did not seem to matter that they were guarded by dragons who manufactured peace.}} Xikotal brought gifts of coal and iron ore to Dowdun Reach, hoping to soften the faction's isolationism. Its lord Rasmodel accepted the materials and used them to arm a new private military force instead.{{CiteJournal|journal=Mithril Platelegs|quote=The dragon, Xikotal, had a gift. In one claw, he had coal, in the other iron. He wanted to help the Zamorakians, to bring them an offering that might soften their determination to isolate. In the dragon's optimism, the gift would bring the Zamorakians into the wider Fellhollow community. Rasmodel had his steel. He could outfit his new order. With the misguided dragon's help, he had his knights. They would ensure the rest of Fellhollow would keep their distance.}} The resulting Shadow Knights, established by formal edict, ensured Dowdun Reach's continued separation from Fellhollow, and would in time become the [[Dragonwilds:Black Knights]].{{CiteJournal|journal=Black Knight Platelegs|quote=Fellhollow, Imaru and Xikotal were not to be trusted. A new order of knights were to be created, and he was to lead them.}} | |||
The peace ended when [[Dragonwilds:Kuldra]], the Godeater, arrived in Fellhollow. Kuldra's campaign against humanity extended to any dragon that sheltered it, and the cooperation between the region's draconic guardians and its settlers was not permitted to stand.{{CiteJournal|journal=Fellhollow Cape|quote=Kuldra could not allow it. The queen's hatred and rage became an infection that took hold of Imaru's grief and, like some foul parasite, twisted it into something worse.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Steel Greatsword|quote=It would be quite useful against the godeater, Kuldra, and her call for humanity's death.}} Xikotal was killed, his heart torn out and devoured by Kuldra before she departed the region.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Third Journal|quote=I watched as the great multi-headed dragon queen pulled Xikotal's heart from his chest and ate it in front of his mate.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Battered Diary|quote=As he died it was as if the wind stilled in mourning, a great silence spread across the land dragging away all motion and noise.}} The loss was felt across the entire community through the Blessing, the region falling silent. | |||
=== The Withering === | |||
Following Xikotal's death, a grief-curse was embedded in Imaru by Ravanna, an Emberwood necromancer who had settled in the region.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Fourth Journal|quote=I offered her revenge. I created a curse within her, using her grief and rage as a focus, so that it might strengthen her against Kuldra.}} The curse was designed to amplify Imaru's power into something capable of destroying Kuldra, but the attempt failed. Kuldra withstood the attack without difficulty and Imaru was struck down.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Fourth Journal|quote=Kuldra is stronger than I imagined. Her essence more powerful than either of us could have guessed. As Imaru raged at her Kuldra simply laughed and rebuffed her, barely even registering the unholy force hurled against her. So Imaru died. Fell to the ground in a crumbled heap.}} | |||
Rather than passing into the Afterlife, Imaru anchored herself within the {{RSL|River Noumenon}} using the curse, wedging herself in the passage between the living world and the Underworld. From there she began consuming the souls of the dead to accumulate power, causing the Noumenon's waters to bleed into the living world.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Fifth Journal|quote=Imaru has somehow wedged herself in there, using the curse I gave her and her own, sheer, bloody-minded rage to stick her in place. She claws at the edge of the Underworld, creating rifts that bleed the Noumenon's waters into our world like some deadly poison that rips out the soul.}} The Blessing, which had bound the community together, was turned into a conduit through which the souls of Fellhollow's living population were drawn toward Imaru.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Fifth Journal|quote=She uses her "Blessing" as an anchor to her people, dragging their souls to her so that she might feast and grow stronger.}} | |||
The Scalesworn, Xikotal's most devoted guardians, fell first. The draconic marks they bore became an entry point for the curse, making them both the first to turn and the first vector through which the affliction spread to others.{{CiteJournal|journal=Rotsworn Marauder|quote=They were blessed with the mark of the dragon, granting them some of the power of their draconic masters. These marks would be their undoing, when Imaru refused to stay dead. They became the first of the infected, inflicted with a terrible withering curse that would drag the souls of any they touched into Imaru's hungry maw.}} Necromantic energy washing back through the Blessing then animated the dead throughout the region, filling them with an insatiable hunger that spread further through the population.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Sixth Journal|quote=The necromantic energies of the Underworld then wash back through the Blessing and into her subjects, animating their bodies and filling them with an unquenchable thirst for more souls.}} Researchers in Dowdun Reach measured the spread at roughly a hectare a day, slowed only by mountains and bodies of water, and projected full contamination of Fellhollow within two weeks.{{CiteJournal|journal=A Report on the Withering|quote=It spreads at a significant rate, roughly a hectare a day, and is only slowed or halted by mountains and bodies of water. It is our belief that the subcontinent of Fellhollow will be entirely contaminated in the next two weeks.}} The hunger did not stop at the living. The substance of the region itself was consumed over time: food tasted of nothing, campfires felt cold, and trees were hollowed from within.{{CiteJournal|journal=Hollow Bark|quote=Things taste worse in Fellhollow. Dreams are vapid and empty, if you have them at all. A campfire feels colder, even if it warms you just as well as before. Because the substance, the soul of that thing if you will, is being consumed.}} | |||
The Zamorakian priests of Emberwood developed a temporary remedy, a potion that caused afflicted souls to resist being drawn away long enough to identify and expel the infected before they fully turned.{{CiteJournal|journal=Wither Reduction Potion|quote=As Imaru attempted to draw the souls from the bodies of people, they would drink this and then she found this meal much harder to digest.}} As the village fell regardless, priests of all faiths prayed together over the bones of the dead buried beneath the soil, erecting a multi-faith barrier that sealed Emberwood shut.{{CiteJournal|journal=Priestly Journal|quote=So we priests prayed together, a union of faith, to erect a barrier of belief to keep the withered villagers contained. Our prayers bound to the icons, and only together will the village be re-opened once more.}} To the east, the Wild Knights held their positions at the village gates before retreating into Silverthorn Keep and sealing themselves inside.{{CiteJournal|journal=Skeletal Warrior|quote=They stood at the gates to the village holding back the ravening horde. They walled themselves away in their keep until no one remains alive to guard it.}} Imaru's Tower shattered, and those who had dwelt near it were lost in the lake of grief that formed around it.{{CiteJournal|journal=Mould-covered Journal|quote=As for the tower, and those who dwelt beside it, it's shattered. The dragons' disciples lost in a great lake of sorrow and grief. Damned by their own devotion.}} None of these defences held. The Withering eventually claimed those inside the keep, and the defenders who had fought hardest against the undead became the undead themselves.{{CiteJournal|journal=Skeletal Warrior|quote=The tragic truth is that many of these people fought as hard as they could against the tide of undead... Yet, now, they are the monsters they fought so hard against.}} | |||
Three curse seals, each containing a fragment of Ravanna's curse, were placed across the region in an attempt to provide a future means of challenging Imaru. The curse, which made Imaru powerful, also represented the only way to make her vulnerable, a challenger who gathered all three shards would carry enough of it to overcome her invulnerability.{{CiteJournal|journal=Ravanna's Seventh Journal|quote=The seals are in place, but I'm not sure what good they'll do. I have taken the essence of her curse and bound it to the plinths, in hope that someone stronger than me might yet claim them. Without the curse she's invulnerable, but the very same thing that makes her powerful, makes her weak.}} Dowdun Reach sealed all connecting pathways to Fellhollow and posted guards at their crypt as a warning system.{{CiteJournal|journal=A Report on the Withering|quote=It is our recommendation that all efforts are made to seal Dowdun Reach. All connecting pathways to the subcontinent of Fellhollow should be severed.}} For centuries afterward the region remained locked in this state, its dead unable to pass on and its souls endlessly consumed, while [[Dragonwilds:Death]] himself found his ability to reap souls in the region entirely blocked.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Death|quote=The whole region is infected with a terrible withering. Some dread curse that untethers the soul and drags it to the river Noumenon without ever sailing upon it, preventing the dead from moving on.}} | |||
=== Sixth Age === | |||
Following the defeat of [[Dragonwilds:General Velgar]] in [[Dragonwilds:Ghornfell]], the [[Dragonwilds:Wise Old Man]] discovered a necromantically sealed door in a passage near [[Dragonwilds:Ashien's Watch]]. After studying the magic, the passphrase was passed to the [[Dragonwilds:Player]], granting access to what lay beyond.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Wise Old Man|quote=See this creepy little passageway? There's a door at the bottom wreathed in magic, and the spooky stuff at that -- necromancy. I've been studying it for a while and I've learned the words to allow access.}} Beyond the door lies the [[Dragonwilds:Forgotten Temple]], where the player is met by Death. The Withering has blocked Death's ability to reap the souls of Fellhollow, and the player is tasked with investigating and resolving it, directed first to [[Dragonwilds:Postie Pete]] to undergo [[Dragonwilds:Soul Rifting]], then to [[Dragonwilds:Cathan]], who had already been investigating a necromantic ritual site in the region.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Death|quote=I need you to investigate this. Find out what went on. Resolve it if you can and I shall reward you for your efforts.}} | |||
Through the standing stones left by Ravanna, the history of Imaru's fall is uncovered and the three curse seals are located across Fellhollow. Absorbing a shard from each, the player accumulates enough of the curse to make Imaru vulnerable to attack.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Death|quote=There will be a number of seals, special shrines dedicated to holding onto some aspect of the curse. You can take a piece of the curse for yourself, from each of these shrines. Get enough of them and you'll be strong enough to challenge Imaru directly.}} Imaru is then confronted and defeated in her tower, ending her centuries-long consumption of Fellhollow's dead. With her hold on the region broken, Death is able to begin clearing the enormous backlog of souls trapped since the Withering began.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Death|quote=Forgive me, but I must focus my attention elsewhere. There is an enormous backlog in Fellhollow that I need to clear up.}} Following this; the entrance to [[Dragonwilds:Dowdun Reach]] is unlocked, allowing the player to progress. | |||
== Geography == | == Geography == | ||
Fellhollow | Fellhollow is comprised of the subregions; | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Forgotten Temple]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Forgotten Temple]] === | ||
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=== [[Dragonwilds:Bleakfields Valley]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Bleakfields Valley]] === | ||
Is the starting area of Fellhollow. | Is the starting area of Fellhollow. The valley contains a withered village, a graveyard, willow groves, and the standing stones left by [[Dragonwilds:Ravanna]] as part of her attempt to contain [[Dragonwilds:Imaru]]'s curse.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Standing Stone|quote=To the east stands a fortress that once housed the Wild Knights, brave soldiers of Guthix. They fought bravely against the endless hordes of the dead, but, like all things, fell in the end. I have left a shard of the curse there, guarded by their last living protector.}} | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Lake of Lost Souls]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Lake of Lost Souls]] === | ||
Is the | Is the north eastern part of Fellhollow. Its waters are drawn from pools corrupted by the [[Dragonwilds:River Noumenon]], poisoned by Imaru's hunger and carrying the essence of the river of the dead within each drop.{{CiteJournal|journal=Wither Water|quote=Drawn from pools of wither-rot water, lakes and streams poisoned by the waters of the river Noumenon – the river of the dead. These waters have become corrupted by Imaru's hunger and each drop longs to devour one's soul.}} | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Dragon's Run]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Dragon's Run]] === | ||
Is the north western part of Fellhollow that houses a [[Dragonwilds:Green Dragon]]. | Is the north western part of Fellhollow that houses a [[Dragonwilds:Green Dragon]]. The area contains withered ruins, the remnants of settlements consumed by the Withering. | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Emberwood]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Emberwood]] === | ||
Is the most western part of | Is the most western part of Fellhollow, home to the village founded by the original settlers. Before the Withering, the region was a kaleidoscopic wonder of colour shaped by the [[Dragonwilds:Anima Twist]], its streets filled with laughter and song while Imaru and Xikotal danced across the skies above.{{CiteJournal|journal=Fellhollow Cape|quote=Once, long ago, this land was beautiful. A myriad of colours danced in the breeze, the anima twist turning the region into a kaleidoscopic wonder. The now ruined streets were once filled with laughter, joy and song.}} The village is now sealed behind a prayer barrier erected by the priests of Emberwood at the height of the Withering, its icons binding the barrier in place and containing the withered villagers within.{{CiteJournal|journal=Priestly Journal|quote=So we priests prayed together, a union of faith, to erect a barrier of belief to keep the withered villagers contained. Our prayers bound to the icons, and only together will the village be re-opened once more.}} | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Witchwillow Range]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Witchwillow Range]] === | ||
Is the south western part of Fellhollow. | Is the south western part of Fellhollow. The range is home to willow groves, each connected to a pool of water and once inhabited by nature spirits.{{CiteJournal|journal=Willow Shortbow|quote=It is said that the first willow shortbow was gifted to a villager by a spirit that dwelled within the grove.}} The spirits in these groves have been corrupted and drained by the Withering, and now wander as hostile creatures, consumed by Imaru's hunger.{{CiteText|source=The Wild Hunt - Vannaka|quote=Even this willow grove, once home to a proud and magnificent nature spirit, is now corrupted by wither and rot. That poor spirit has withered away to nothing.}} The subregion also contains the ruins of a fountain. | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Hope's Fall]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Hope's Fall]] === | ||
'''Hope's Fall''' is | '''Hope's Fall''' is a [[Dragonwilds:Withered Enemies|Rotsworn]] infested area of Fellhollow. In the centre stands [[Dragonwilds:Imaru's Tower]], sealed off and inaccessible until the player has gathered the three curse shards left by Ravanna across the region.{{CiteJournal|journal=Curse Fragment (Rage)|quote=You feel the power of the curse thrumming through you. Like a heartbeat in your soul, resonating with all the frustration and anger within you. This is a part of Imaru's curse, a force created to destroy the dragon queen, Kuldra, herself.}} Ravanna placed one of her curse seals within Emberwood's heart, describing it as an anchor made from the suffering of the villagers.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Standing Stone|quote=There was a village once, west of the tower, that I made my home. The people lived together, peacefully, happily, under the guardianship of dragons. Imaru's grief and rage has made it a prison, all joy turned to fear. I placed a piece of the curse within its heart, an anchor made of suffering.}} | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Coalridge Pass]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Coalridge Pass]] === | ||
'''Coalridge Pass''' is an area within [[Dragonwilds:Fellhollow]] that houses several [[Dragonwilds:Skeleton|Skeletons]], [[Dragonwilds:Zogre|Zogres]], [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Wolf|Dragon Wolves]], [[Dragonwilds:Green Dragon|Green Dragons]] and other notable enemies. | '''Coalridge Pass''' is an area within [[Dragonwilds:Fellhollow]] that houses several [[Dragonwilds:Skeleton|Skeletons]], [[Dragonwilds:Zogre|Zogres]], [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Wolf|Dragon Wolves]], [[Dragonwilds:Green Dragon|Green Dragons]] and other notable enemies. The region contains many [[Dragonwilds:Coal node|coal nodes]] nearby, located either on the ridge walls or in caves, and the ruins of a miner's cottage are evidence of the working community that once operated here. It is located north-west of [[Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep]] and north-east of the [[Dragonwilds:Lake of Lost Souls]]. | ||
=== [[Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep]] === | === [[Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep]] === | ||
'''Silverthorn Keep''' is an area within [[Dragonwilds:Fellhollow]] that houses several [[Dragonwilds:Skeleton|Skeletons]], [[Dragonwilds:Zogre|Zogres]], [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Wolf|Dragon Wolves]], [[Dragonwilds:Green Dragon|Green Dragons]] and other notable enemies. It is | '''Silverthorn Keep''' is an area within [[Dragonwilds:Fellhollow]] that houses several [[Dragonwilds:Skeleton|Skeletons]], [[Dragonwilds:Zogre|Zogres]], [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Wolf|Dragon Wolves]], [[Dragonwilds:Green Dragon|Green Dragons]] and other notable enemies. It is the location of one of the [[Dragonwilds:Wild Knights]] fortresses and the ominous gateway that leads into [[Dragonwilds:Dowdun Reach]]. During the Withering, the keep's defenders held the gates against the undead horde before sealing themselves inside, unleashing volleys of arrows from the walls in a last stand that ultimately failed.{{CiteJournal|journal=Amulet of Accuracy|quote=When Silverthorn Keep stood against the rising horde of zombies, these amulets were worn by the keep defenders who unleashed a torrent of arrows into the hungry dead.}} Ravanna placed one of her three curse seals here, guarded by the keep's last surviving protector.{{CiteText|source=Withering Heights - Standing Stone|quote=To the east stands a fortress that once housed the Wild Knights, brave soldiers of Guthix. They fought bravely against the endless hordes of the dead, but, like all things, fell in the end. I have left a shard of the curse there, guarded by their last living protector.}} | ||
== NPCs == | == NPCs == | ||
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* [[Dragonwilds:Simon]] | * [[Dragonwilds:Simon]] | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Mirror]] | * [[Dragonwilds:Mirror]] | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Abraxus The Eternal]] | * [[Dragonwilds:Abraxus The Eternal]] | ||
==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
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* [[Dragonwilds:Corpse Cotton Plant]] | * [[Dragonwilds:Corpse Cotton Plant]] | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Pumpkin (plant)]] | * [[Dragonwilds:Pumpkin (plant)]] | ||
===Fish=== | |||
* [[Dragonwilds:Raw Lobster]] | |||
* [[Dragonwilds:Undead Eel]] | |||
* [[Dragonwilds:Undead Bass]] | |||
==Creatures== | ==Creatures== | ||
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** [[Dragonwilds:Rotsworn Necromancer]]s | ** [[Dragonwilds:Rotsworn Necromancer]]s | ||
** [[Dragonwilds:Rotsworn Thrall|Rotsworn Thralls]] | ** [[Dragonwilds:Rotsworn Thrall|Rotsworn Thralls]] | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Rotridden Rat]]s | * [[Dragonwilds:Rotridden Rat]]s | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Rotridden Cow]]s | * [[Dragonwilds:Rotridden Cow]]s | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Zogre]]s | * [[Dragonwilds:Zogre]]s | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:Zombie Rat]]s | * [[Dragonwilds:Zombie Rat]]s | ||
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* [[Dragonwilds:Mirror, Mirror]] | * [[Dragonwilds:Mirror, Mirror]] | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:What Remains is Written]] | * [[Dragonwilds:What Remains is Written]] | ||
* [[Dragonwilds:X Marks the Spot]] | * [[Dragonwilds:X Marks the Spot]] | ||
==Journal== | ==Journal== | ||
{{ | {{No journal}} | ||
}} | |||
==Music== | ==Music== | ||
Latest revision as of 11:01, 1 June 2026
Template:Infobox Scenery Fellhollow is a Power Level 5 region in Dragonwilds:Ashenfall, ruled over by Dragonwilds:Imaru, the Soul-Eater. The region includes underground spacesTemplate:CiteDiscord and is infested with all manner of undead monsters. Death will make an appearance in this region.
Players will need to complete Dragonwilds:Dragon Slayer and have partially started Dragonwilds:Withering Heights to access Fellhollow.Template:CiteDiscord
When players are first introduced to Fellhollow, they are greeted by Death in the Dragonwilds:Forgotten Temple and are then asked to meet Dragonwilds:Postie Pete, who will then explain that the way to get into Fellhollow is through Dragonwilds:Soul Rifting. This mechanic allows the player to enter Spectral Doors and gain access to new areas of the map that cannot be normally traversed.
History
Pre-Withering
Fellhollow was founded by Dragonwilds:Amalgamated refugees from Dragonwilds:Brynmoor, displaced during the Dragonwilds:Schism, a period of violent conflict in which those deemed 'impure' were persecuted, killed, and expelled from their homes.Template:CiteJournal The violence drove communities north past the Dragonwilds:Garou and down into the earth, emerging in the region that would become their new home during the period of peace brokered between the humans and the garou in the Dragonwilds:Third Age.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal Former Bandosian ogres from the campaigns in Dragonwilds:Ghornfell, abandoned when Dragonwilds:Bandos withdrew and with no war left to fight, joined the settlers in the same period.Template:CiteJournal For the Amalgamated among the founders, Fellhollow represented a marked contrast to the persecution left behind.Template:CiteJournal
Two dragons already inhabited the region: Dragonwilds:Imaru and her mate Dragonwilds:Xikotal. Though initially distant, both eventually approached the settlers as neighbours and extended their protection over the community. Dragonkin experimentation had stripped Imaru of the ability to bear children, and the settlers provided both dragons with cause to take on a guardianship role.Template:CiteJournal Imaru's elemental affinity with water brought rain to the region's crops, while Xikotal's influence calmed the winds, resulting in plentiful harvests and a growing population.Template:CiteJournal Blessed purifying pools were created across the region to ward off illness and corruption,Template:CiteJournal and a magical Blessing was woven over each settler that bound the people of differing backgrounds together and served as a source of shared health and strength.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal
Dragonwilds:Emberwood grew into a multi-faith community unlike anything else on Dragonwilds:Ashenfall, with Saradominists and Zamorakians living and trading side by side. The villagers honoured their draconic guardians in daily life, weaving patterns of blue and black into their clothing in tribute to the dragons' dances in the sky.Template:CiteJournal A civilian military force, the hoplites, formed within the village, naming themselves after the legendary Saradominist forces of Hallow and training together each week.Template:CiteJournal The Dragonwilds:Wild Knights established a fortress at Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep to the east.
Dowdun Reach, a Zamorakian faction based across the mountains, maintained an isolationist stance despite the peace secured by the region's draconic guardians.Template:CiteJournal Xikotal brought gifts of coal and iron ore to Dowdun Reach, hoping to soften the faction's isolationism. Its lord Rasmodel accepted the materials and used them to arm a new private military force instead.Template:CiteJournal The resulting Shadow Knights, established by formal edict, ensured Dowdun Reach's continued separation from Fellhollow, and would in time become the Dragonwilds:Black Knights.Template:CiteJournal
The peace ended when Dragonwilds:Kuldra, the Godeater, arrived in Fellhollow. Kuldra's campaign against humanity extended to any dragon that sheltered it, and the cooperation between the region's draconic guardians and its settlers was not permitted to stand.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal Xikotal was killed, his heart torn out and devoured by Kuldra before she departed the region.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal The loss was felt across the entire community through the Blessing, the region falling silent.
The Withering
Following Xikotal's death, a grief-curse was embedded in Imaru by Ravanna, an Emberwood necromancer who had settled in the region.Template:CiteJournal The curse was designed to amplify Imaru's power into something capable of destroying Kuldra, but the attempt failed. Kuldra withstood the attack without difficulty and Imaru was struck down.Template:CiteJournal
Rather than passing into the Afterlife, Imaru anchored herself within the Template:RSL using the curse, wedging herself in the passage between the living world and the Underworld. From there she began consuming the souls of the dead to accumulate power, causing the Noumenon's waters to bleed into the living world.Template:CiteJournal The Blessing, which had bound the community together, was turned into a conduit through which the souls of Fellhollow's living population were drawn toward Imaru.Template:CiteJournal
The Scalesworn, Xikotal's most devoted guardians, fell first. The draconic marks they bore became an entry point for the curse, making them both the first to turn and the first vector through which the affliction spread to others.Template:CiteJournal Necromantic energy washing back through the Blessing then animated the dead throughout the region, filling them with an insatiable hunger that spread further through the population.Template:CiteJournal Researchers in Dowdun Reach measured the spread at roughly a hectare a day, slowed only by mountains and bodies of water, and projected full contamination of Fellhollow within two weeks.Template:CiteJournal The hunger did not stop at the living. The substance of the region itself was consumed over time: food tasted of nothing, campfires felt cold, and trees were hollowed from within.Template:CiteJournal
The Zamorakian priests of Emberwood developed a temporary remedy, a potion that caused afflicted souls to resist being drawn away long enough to identify and expel the infected before they fully turned.Template:CiteJournal As the village fell regardless, priests of all faiths prayed together over the bones of the dead buried beneath the soil, erecting a multi-faith barrier that sealed Emberwood shut.Template:CiteJournal To the east, the Wild Knights held their positions at the village gates before retreating into Silverthorn Keep and sealing themselves inside.Template:CiteJournal Imaru's Tower shattered, and those who had dwelt near it were lost in the lake of grief that formed around it.Template:CiteJournal None of these defences held. The Withering eventually claimed those inside the keep, and the defenders who had fought hardest against the undead became the undead themselves.Template:CiteJournal
Three curse seals, each containing a fragment of Ravanna's curse, were placed across the region in an attempt to provide a future means of challenging Imaru. The curse, which made Imaru powerful, also represented the only way to make her vulnerable, a challenger who gathered all three shards would carry enough of it to overcome her invulnerability.Template:CiteJournal Dowdun Reach sealed all connecting pathways to Fellhollow and posted guards at their crypt as a warning system.Template:CiteJournal For centuries afterward the region remained locked in this state, its dead unable to pass on and its souls endlessly consumed, while Dragonwilds:Death himself found his ability to reap souls in the region entirely blocked.Template:CiteText
Sixth Age
Following the defeat of Dragonwilds:General Velgar in Dragonwilds:Ghornfell, the Dragonwilds:Wise Old Man discovered a necromantically sealed door in a passage near Dragonwilds:Ashien's Watch. After studying the magic, the passphrase was passed to the Dragonwilds:Player, granting access to what lay beyond.Template:CiteText Beyond the door lies the Dragonwilds:Forgotten Temple, where the player is met by Death. The Withering has blocked Death's ability to reap the souls of Fellhollow, and the player is tasked with investigating and resolving it, directed first to Dragonwilds:Postie Pete to undergo Dragonwilds:Soul Rifting, then to Dragonwilds:Cathan, who had already been investigating a necromantic ritual site in the region.Template:CiteText
Through the standing stones left by Ravanna, the history of Imaru's fall is uncovered and the three curse seals are located across Fellhollow. Absorbing a shard from each, the player accumulates enough of the curse to make Imaru vulnerable to attack.Template:CiteText Imaru is then confronted and defeated in her tower, ending her centuries-long consumption of Fellhollow's dead. With her hold on the region broken, Death is able to begin clearing the enormous backlog of souls trapped since the Withering began.Template:CiteText Following this; the entrance to Dragonwilds:Dowdun Reach is unlocked, allowing the player to progress.
Geography
Fellhollow is comprised of the subregions;
Dragonwilds:Forgotten Temple
Is located in the underground part that separates Fellhollow and the Dragonwilds:Fractured Plains. Death, Dragonwilds:Muncher, and Dragonwilds:Postie Pete resides here.
Dragonwilds:Bleakfields Valley
Is the starting area of Fellhollow. The valley contains a withered village, a graveyard, willow groves, and the standing stones left by Dragonwilds:Ravanna as part of her attempt to contain Dragonwilds:Imaru's curse.Template:CiteText
Dragonwilds:Lake of Lost Souls
Is the north eastern part of Fellhollow. Its waters are drawn from pools corrupted by the Dragonwilds:River Noumenon, poisoned by Imaru's hunger and carrying the essence of the river of the dead within each drop.Template:CiteJournal
Dragonwilds:Dragon's Run
Is the north western part of Fellhollow that houses a Dragonwilds:Green Dragon. The area contains withered ruins, the remnants of settlements consumed by the Withering.
Dragonwilds:Emberwood
Is the most western part of Fellhollow, home to the village founded by the original settlers. Before the Withering, the region was a kaleidoscopic wonder of colour shaped by the Dragonwilds:Anima Twist, its streets filled with laughter and song while Imaru and Xikotal danced across the skies above.Template:CiteJournal The village is now sealed behind a prayer barrier erected by the priests of Emberwood at the height of the Withering, its icons binding the barrier in place and containing the withered villagers within.Template:CiteJournal
Dragonwilds:Witchwillow Range
Is the south western part of Fellhollow. The range is home to willow groves, each connected to a pool of water and once inhabited by nature spirits.Template:CiteJournal The spirits in these groves have been corrupted and drained by the Withering, and now wander as hostile creatures, consumed by Imaru's hunger.Template:CiteText The subregion also contains the ruins of a fountain.
Dragonwilds:Hope's Fall
Hope's Fall is a Rotsworn infested area of Fellhollow. In the centre stands Dragonwilds:Imaru's Tower, sealed off and inaccessible until the player has gathered the three curse shards left by Ravanna across the region.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna placed one of her curse seals within Emberwood's heart, describing it as an anchor made from the suffering of the villagers.Template:CiteText
Dragonwilds:Coalridge Pass
Coalridge Pass is an area within Dragonwilds:Fellhollow that houses several Skeletons, Zogres, Dragon Wolves, Green Dragons and other notable enemies. The region contains many coal nodes nearby, located either on the ridge walls or in caves, and the ruins of a miner's cottage are evidence of the working community that once operated here. It is located north-west of Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep and north-east of the Dragonwilds:Lake of Lost Souls.
Dragonwilds:Silverthorn Keep
Silverthorn Keep is an area within Dragonwilds:Fellhollow that houses several Skeletons, Zogres, Dragon Wolves, Green Dragons and other notable enemies. It is the location of one of the Dragonwilds:Wild Knights fortresses and the ominous gateway that leads into Dragonwilds:Dowdun Reach. During the Withering, the keep's defenders held the gates against the undead horde before sealing themselves inside, unleashing volleys of arrows from the walls in a last stand that ultimately failed.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna placed one of her three curse seals here, guarded by the keep's last surviving protector.Template:CiteText
NPCs
- Death
- Dragonwilds:Cathan
- Dragonwilds:Vannaka
- Dragonwilds:Zanik
- Dragonwilds:Doric
- Dragonwilds:Windswept Ghost
- Dragonwilds:Reminiscing Ghost
- Dragonwilds:Paint-Spattered Ghost
- Dragonwilds:Suspicious Skeleton
- Dragonwilds:Shaun
- Dragonwilds:Steve
- Dragonwilds:Stuart
- Dragonwilds:Simon
- Dragonwilds:Mirror
- Dragonwilds:Abraxus The Eternal
Resources
Nodes
- Dragonwilds:Coal Deposit
- Dragonwilds:Iron Ore Node
- Dragonwilds:Soul Stone
- Dragonwilds:Blurite Ore Node
- Dragonwilds:Stone Boulder
Trees
Plants
- Dragonwilds:Thorny Irit Root
- Dragonwilds:Cadavaberry Bush
- Dragonwilds:Corpse Cotton Plant
- Dragonwilds:Pumpkin (plant)
Fish
Creatures
Agressive
- Spirits
- Skeletons
- Dragonwilds:Zombies
- Withered Undead
- Dragonwilds:Rotridden Rats
- Dragonwilds:Rotridden Cows
- Dragonwilds:Zogres
- Dragonwilds:Zombie Rats
- Dragonwilds:Green Dragons
- Dragon Wolves
- Imaru, the Soul-Eater
Non-Agressive
Quests
- Dragonwilds:Withering Heights
- Dragonwilds:The Wild Hunt
- Dragonwilds:Even More Restless Ghosts
- Dragonwilds:Seeking Salvation
- Dragonwilds:Things That Go Boom In The Night
- Dragonwilds:Doric's Quest
- Dragonwilds:Letters for the Dead
- Dragonwilds:Mirror, Mirror
- Dragonwilds:What Remains is Written
- Dragonwilds:X Marks the Spot
Journal
Music
Concept art
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Concept art of Death's Office in Fellhollow