Editing Wodesville (section)

== History ==
Wodesville as a settlement has been in existence since the Bronze Age; for nearly 1,000 years it was a small druid grove protected by the ancient Circle of Vines druids. Prehistory pictography indicates that the crystal originally had large, thick vines wrapped around it, completely obscuring it from passers by and protecting it from attack. After the circle was merged into the all-encompassing Circle of the Land, the druids maintained control of the area until 2108 VR, when a powerful magical force (possibly Ikonovoa, a powerful sorcerer king known as the Storm King) entered the area and completely obliterated the grove, leaving no survivors.

In 2115 VR, the Ivory Tower was constructed, though no one knows who built it, or why. After the Catastrophe, the tower was destroyed (again, by unknown forces), its ruins scattered across the continent of Dorian. It appears that this is when the crystal gained its ability to prevent harm, though it's also likely that the pre-Catastrophe magics of Avo were powerful enough to overcome the crystal's influence. The tower's ruins remained the only point of interest in the area, with numerous and various occupations over the centuries, until in 3609 VR the first permanent settlers arrived, establishing a village known as Crystaltown (also written as Crystalton), which would over time become Wodesville.

Modern day Wodesville was officially founded as a logging town in 3289 VR, following the fall of the Dorian Empire, and after the new Akhentourian Republic eased its taxation requirements for towns. At the time of its founding, the entire land from Wodesville to Garrod was forest; over the centuries the loggers deforested the surrounding area quite a bit. Over time, Wodesville became a central city to rest and recuperate in when traveling to and from the various neighboring cities and towns.

During the Alrennean War, Wodesville was spared due to its protective crystal, and many people flocked there for safety, swelling the population to a near breaking point, a problem that persists to the present day. After the war in 4062 VR and the destabilization of Akhentour as a country, Wodesville became one of the three governing city-states of the land, taking over for Garrod, which was in ruins, and offering protection with the help of the Axebreakers for the southern part of the former country.

In the dawning of the 6th era in Dorian (4083 VR), Akhentour was loosely consolidated back into a country, and Wodesville was chosen as one of the three primary governing cities, along with Diomed and Kavonne, forming the Council of Six (as two leaders from each city formed the Council). A more formal country-wide constitution was ratified in 4091 VR, folding the newly reopened Garrod as well as the orc city of Urthagura into the expanded Council of Ten. This treaty made Wodesville a temporary provincial seat of governance for southern Akhentour for the next 20 years, at which point the provincial seat moved to Garrod permanently.