Barony of Whitewater

The Barony of Whitewater is a small province in the greater Redridge mountains, some way above Crystal Lake. It is dominated by steep cliffs and by rapidly flowing springs, brooks and small rivers, which feed into the lakes and rivers of Elwynn Forest. Currently held by the House of Leifeld, it is a relatively peaceful domain save for clashes with Dark Iron and Blackrock forces, with an economy dominated by small vineyards and farms, supplemented by profitable gold operations exploiting the extensive alluvial deposits. While not nearly so productive as the great pit mines and deep-tunnel digs, these mines have served to ensure the relative prosperity of the House of Leifeld.

Gudryk
Largely abandoned in the aftermath of the First War, Gudryk was a marked oddity in the demographics of the Kingdom of Azeroth. A sizeable minority of the population consisted of High Elves, brought south by varied causes, often in the company of the Vashafna band of gypsies, a number of whom also settled on site. Some of the finest wine country in the barony, Gudryk swiftly developed a distinctive cultivar of red wine grape, which coupled with techniques and a magically-altered yeast used in Quel'thalas's wine industry to produce extraordinary wines. However, with the pillage of Azeroth at the hands of the Orcish Horde, Gudryk was burned and its inhabitants killed or displaced. A number of the refugees settled further West in the Reconstruction, but Gudryk itself briefly recovered before its ultimate demise shortly after the Third War, when the bulk of the male population volunteered to venture north in a relief effort for the Kingdom of Lordaeron. With the bulk of the manpower supporting the vineyards lost to a terrible fate, they declined and ultimately collapsed, and the signature wines of the region have since been lost - though wine merchants have compared the wines produced by the Elven House of Starshadow, known to have had loose kin in the region, and found them remarkably similar.