Heatherglen Tower

Heatherglen Tower, at the edge of Little Ox, was once a garrison tower. Officially the responsibility of Baltus van Tassell, Thane of Westfell Dell. It is in solid shape but dusty and in need of a good going over to remove overgrowth and vermin.

Location: On the eastern reached of the fields and frests of Westfell Dell past the bordering trees and up the rise of the land. The land opens to a delightful glen filled with fragrant heather.

History: During the reign of Karl-Roderick Gatewood, the third Earl of Westfell, Dark Tribes emerged with some vexign regularity from the bordering forests of Velvet Green such that the Earl and his Master at Arms the Yeoman-Esquire Ludvig 'The Cliff-Ram' von Karpathendottir devised to garrison a force as a bastion against the repeated incursions of those fell folk and to serve as a staging point from which regular War parties coul sally forth in array to hunt those devils and hold-safe the land in defense of The Great Races. At the behest of the Earl the Tower at Heatherglen was erected and a small garrison attached to is in regular rotation for some years. Over time the Dark Tribes numbers dwindled and their settlements were razed, driving them back into the deeper Tulgeywood. And the need for, and thereby the expense required to board and outfit regular guard at that location became burdensome in greater measure than its worth and the House of Gatewood relinquished regular maintenance.

After the later rise of common banditry along the Kingsroad raised need of more regularpatrols along that thoroughfare to vouchsafe the passage of merchantmen and tradesfolk and sundry travellers. The possession ofand cost of upkeep of, the Heatherglen Towers became the wheelhouse of duly appointed Sheriffs of Westfell or in the absence of one so named, the living Burgomeister-Esquire of Westfell Dell. Which until lately, has been the Van Tassell Squires.

Inhabitants, groups, or affiliated characters: For some time the tower was a training ground and staging point for The Huntsmen of House Gatewood, that order of Rangers tasked with patrolling and safekeeping the borderlands of The Tulgeywood. Baltus van Tassell

Affiliated items: The Tower Key. The Writ of Tower Heatherglen, The Chronicle of the Watch of Heatherglen (Lost )