Nature meets fantasy in this home for the “Vanaheim Family” and all fantasy creatures. This magical place where fantasy creatures stand strong together in light and darkness.
– Paradise Of Fantasy About Land / Destination Guide description
The Landing Point sits just off of one to the many trails winding through the setting, and close to a large manor house. Like all the buildings in the region, it is open to the public, although the furnishings are an esoteric curio. Rooms include conventional lounge-style furniture to more period pieces, to a classroom (for magic?) and offices with a mystical air about them, whilst the loft is devoted to games and pastimes.
The Landing Point itself includes a Welcome scroll. When touched, it will provide an introductory notecard for visitors, together with the local rules. The latter are minimal and easy to remember, being common sense.
Where you go from the Landing Point is entirely up to you; as noted, there are numerous trails winding through the setting, and signposts (and warning signs in some cases!) offer direction or humorous cautions.
The landscape itself is beautifully put together, presenting a wooded setting, rich in colour from trees, shrubs and the flowers carpeting much of the ground. Two streams cut through the setting, one rising form waterfall on the south-east coast of the land to meander northwards to empty into a pond tucked in the north-east corner of the region.
Sitting within north-western corner of the region are two more structures: the Woif’s Grotto and Eiarion. The former is a cottage literally built / hewn into a rock formation, carrying with it a Nordic / medieval sensibility. The latter occupies a headland reaching out from the bay mentioned above. Taking the form of a fairly intact ruin, Eiarion presents a mystery as to how to access it; all of the windows are either intact and glazed or boarded-up.
The solution to the mystery can be found in the teleport stones which can be found close to each point of interest in the region. These form a network of teleports, and using the Eiarion destination will deliver you to the interior of the ruins – I’ll leave you to reflect on how to move between the two rooms.
This teleport system also provides access to those locations not necessarily directly accessible from the ground. Two of these are in the sky, one of which is well rooted in a fantasy sky, the other offering a Japanese setting. A third lies under the western sea of the region. Taking the form of an octopus’ garden, it comes with the not unreasonable request don’t pee in my sea(!).
A further cottage lies to the north-east of the region. Set as a witch’s home, it offers broom parking outside and potions and seed for sale in the garden. It sits not far from where a fortune teller is waiting to tell you all about your future – or perhaps, how to cover up your past – as the song goes.
Nor is this all; throughout the setting is a richness of detail in glades and along the trails. Ruins sit partially overgrown, little shrines mark hallowed clearings among the trees; benches, chairs, blankets, and boats offer places to sit. For those who enjoy music there is a grassy clearing set up for events, details of which I gather can be obtained by joining the local group.
In all, a beautiful, well-designed region mixing nature, mysticism and fantasy in a package rip for exploration and photography.
SLurl Details
- Paradise Of Fantasy (Tasta Island, rated Moderate)
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 