The Eight Major Cities of Valenwood
The capital of Valenwood.
What is Falinesti?
These are the three sacred tenets that the Bosmer follow in the Green Pact.
What is the Mean Mandate, Sacred Form and Protect the Green?
The first king of Valenwood.
Who is King Eplear?
Who is High King Borgas?
Massive trees native to Valenwood known for where Bosmer form their cities around.
What are the Graht-oak?
Considered to be the religious capital of the Valenwood. It resides in the primordial jungle of Malabar Tor.
What is Silvenar?
A Bosmer collective ritual transforms its participants into monsters and is used in wars of vengeance against outsiders.
What is the Wild Hunt?
These figures are the ones that crowned King Eplear.
Who are the Spriggans?
A small racial minority group that exists in Valenwood that is not Bosmer in origin.
What are the Wood Orcs?
The Bosmer rite where one steals from another, and upon return of the stolen item, they demand a boon commensurate to the item's worth.
What is the Rite of Theft?
Constructed by the Second Empire, this city is the busiest trade port in Valenwood and is known for being a melting pot of cultures.
What is Woodhearth?
A Bosmer oathbreaker of the Green Pact.
What is an Apostate?
This Valenwood king help formed the First Almeri Dominion.
Who is King Aeraden?
A conflict between Elswyr and Valenwood that was initiated because of increasing raids against Bosmer Caravans.
What is the Five Year War?
When a tribe member is slain, they are symbolically replaced via a hostage-taking raid on a neighboring tribe. The captive or captives undergo a period of physical torture, supposedly to test their worthiness, and then are joyously welcomed into the clan.
What is the Mourning War?
Originally named after an ancient king, this city can be found in disputed territory at the Colovian border. This city's architecture is now more closely inspired to Colovian and Khajiit culture rather than Bosmer culture.
What is Arenthia?
While known by outsiders as the Bosmer's foreign representative, it is one of the two important religious roles. This role representing the Bosmer people legally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Who is the Silvenar?
Known as both the Hart King and Cameron the Usurper, he is known for his conquest of Colovia, Hammerfell and High Rock.
Who is Haymon Cameron?
The name of the event of the mass migration of Ayleids refuges that came to Valenwood and saw them assimilated into Bosmer culture.
What is Ayleid Diaspora?
This movement was led by Gelthior Cameron and initiated a civil war to overthrow King Aeradan because he was criticized for being too lenient in regards to the Green Pact.
What is the Blacksap Rebellion?
This city in Valenwood was chosen by High Queen Ayrenn to be the capital of the First Aldmeri Dominion because of its strategic location for their conquest of Tamerial.
What is Elden Root?
Known as the Hunter, the Protector, the Vengeance of the Green, Vengeance of the Woods, and Her Verdant Highness. This is one of the two important religious roles within the Green Pact. They usually embody the primal ferocity, health, strength, and physicality of the Bosmer and is comparable to a demigod.
Who is the Green Lady?
This Cameron king secured his throne during a succession crisis by allying himself with Alinor and swearing fealty to their High King thus forming the Second Aldmeri Dominion.
Who is King Anaxemes Cameron?
The name of the accord signed by Altmer, Bosmer and Khajiit that formed the First Aldmeri Dominion.
What is the Elden Accord?
Is a legendary forest in Valenwood which the First Tree is rooted in.
What is the Elden Grove?