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Rosewood is a location in Fable Legends.
Description
Lying to the South, Rosewood is one of the larger forested areas of Albion. Now all wooded areas are dangerous, but Rosewood is less so than, say, the Ominous forest of Demise* (*actual name). Villagers on the outskirts of the thickets tell stories of the White Lady and her forest dwelling sprites, mischievous miscreants such as Redcaps and goatlegged goodfellows. However, don’t be fooled. These creatures might be impish, but they are deadly for the unwary or unprepared.
Rosewood Regions
The Heart of Rosewood
The heart of Rosewood is a region deep into the woods where the magic and the presence of the forest sprites were stronger. This was the place where the legendary Sleeper’s Rose would grow, a magical yet cursed flower who would snatch away the soul of anyone who pricked their finger in one of its thorns. The heart of Rosewood was also the place where the remains of the human body of the Lady of Rosewood were being magically preserved.
The Destroyed Village
Somewhere into the Rosewood lies the destroyed remains of what once was the village where the Lady of Rosewood lived when she was still a human. During her human life the lady was rejected and ignored by the villagers, who turned themselves to praise another girl who also lived there. The enraged lady ran into the woods one night, decided to retrieve a magic flower from the Rosewood, which would steal the girl’s life. However, the plan didn’t go as she planned and she was assimilated by the magic woods instead. Her raging spirit then would manifest as the Lady of Rosewood, a powerful creature vitally linked with the forest. She then launched an attack on the village, engulfing the town with her own roses, ultimately destroying it and killing everyone there.
Rosewood Wisps
Within the Rosewood there are many dwelling ghostly beings celled wisps. While some of the wisps are simply forest spirits who take physical form as Rosewights to attack intruders, others have a more sinister origin.
The villagers who died during the Lady’s attack and everyone who would get lost inside the forest, would have their souls trapped inside the Rosewood, where they, unable to escape, would eventually become wisps.
During the events of the Tale of Roses narrative in Fable Legends, the human-turned-wisps helped the heroes navigate into the Rosewood, singing nursery rhymes about the Lady and eventually aiding the heroes uncover her own backstory while the forest-wisps would try to attack them.
The Darkwood
The Darkwood was an unseen and secluded area even deeper into the woods than the Heart of the Rosewood. Being the farthest location within the forest, the Darkwood would also be the most dangerous of places and where the magic would be the strongest, and its manifestation the darkest. As the light fades when one enters deeper and deeper into the woods, only legends about the Darkwood were known, as no one had ever gotten there and returned alive.
Note: As Fable Legends was cancelled on 7th March 2016 and had its beta access terminated on 13th April 2016, the Darkwood hadn’t been properly featured in the beta gameplay, and thus never really appeared in the game before it got terminated.
The Moon Temple
The Moon Temple is a series of ruins located somewhere in the Rosewood, and is what remains of a humongous temple that existed during the Old Kingdom. The temple itself, as its name suggests, is related to the Moon, and was built to protect the Moon-On-A-Stick, a powerful artefact of old that had the power to control the passage of time, allowing whoever possessed it total control of the course of night and day.
The temple is the main location of the quest The Moon-On-A-Stick, featured in the A Tale Of History narrative in Fable Legends. In such quest, the heroes must fight their way through the temple in order to retrieve the artefact before outlaws, who had gained the ability to turn into balverines could get it to themselves.
A Tale of Roses
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During the Tale of Roses storyline in Fable Legends, the town of Brightloge had just arranged the Festival of Roses, a celebration with the intent to commemorate the return of heroes to Albion. However, as the king ordered the townspeople to pick hundreds of flowers from the Rosewood for the event, the Lady of Rosewood became ultimately enraged by it and launched an attack on the town, interrupting the festival and abducting both the king and his son. The heroes then venture into to the woods in order to rescue the monarchs and eventually fight the Lady, who retreats before she could be killed (events of the quest Lost in the Rosewoods).
The heroes eventually uncover the Lady’s own story (events of the quest The Lady’s Tale) by visiting the destroyed village where they would be aided by the dwelling wisps, and believing to have discovered how to ultimately kill her, once again entered the Rosewood aiming to destroy her human body, who was kept at the Heart of Rosewood.
This action totally backfires, as it was the presence of the Lady’s body in the heart of the forest that kept her soul rooted within the Rosewood, and once destroyed, her spirit was released from the magical boundaries who prevented her from leaving the woods, and this allowed her to be able to launch her full rage all over Albion, expanding the Rosewood.
The appearance of the Rosewood itself changes after the Lady’s body is destroyed (during the quest The Sleeper in the Roses), and as her blood spilled over the ground for one last time, all the roses in the forest, which were all pale white until then, changed her colors to blood red, ultimately changing the forest aesthetic, turning it more dangerous and its creatures more vicious.
Notes
- It is unknown what fate the Rosewood would face, as by the time of Fable, set centuries later, the forest isn't seen nor mentioned whatsoever.
- It is unknown if the Darkwood region of Rosewood are related to the Darkwood featured in Fable and Fable TLC.
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