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    PaladinGuy

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    Default "Totally-Not-Albion" in Faerūn?

    So, I'm trying to set a new campaign, with the intended feel of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain. Is there any place in Forgotten Realms like this? You know, misty forests, swamps and bogs, albeit with more eerie and mysterious feel than straight-up "evil swamps"? I recall that in Warhammer there's an isle like this (literally called Albion), but I'm not yet that much into FR lore to know such locations.

    Thanks in advance!

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    SwashbucklerGuy

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    Default Re: "Totally-Not-Albion" in Faerūn?

    So the people of Aglarond might not be direct Irish/English substitutes, but if I recall correctly they have a lot of nature spirits in the woods and swamps. Most of the time these are relatively friendly, but there are some that are not. Might be worth checking out.

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    PaladinGuy

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    Default Re: "Totally-Not-Albion" in Faerūn?

    You could almost certainly put a place like this on one of the Moonshae Islands.

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    GnomeWizardGuy

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    Default Re: "Totally-Not-Albion" in Faerūn?

    Seconding the Moonshae Islands. There's plenty of stuff that's been written about them, and they're designed to draw heavily from that region IRL.

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    Goblin

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    Default Re: "Totally-Not-Albion" in Faerūn?

    Third for Moonshae. The Ffolk and the Northlanders (two major human societies of the area) are pretty much analogs of the Britons/Gaels and the Anglo-Saxons. I believe they are pretty much intermingled at this point in Faerunian History, but you could always set a campaign in the past or alternate timeline.

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    Default Re: "Totally-Not-Albion" in Faerūn?

    Moonshaes, pretty explicitly.

    At the outset of the Moonshae Trilogy, the native Ffolk of the islands (which are mostly named for different Celtic places... Moray, Snowdon, etc) worship a druidic Goddess named the Earthmother. They are in conflict with the Northmen, who have taken over many of the northern isles.
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