Goldenmist Village is located in the northwestern area of the Ghostlands. It was a High Elven village before its inhabitants were slain during the coming of the Scourge. They now haunt the village ruins as ghosts.
A month after the end of the Argus Campaign, the Windrunner sisters reunited and passed through the village and attacked these ghosts.
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House Firesong Restoration[]
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Nine years after the invasion, House Firesong launched a campaign to restore the Ghostlands. Goldenmist was amongst the regions refurbished by House Firesong. Much of the village's revenue is derived from fishing and crabbing, and the location serves as housing for Firesong retainers as well as the civilian population. Israai Lightglow serves House Firesong as governess of the settlement, which has been expanded to included a forge and alchemy lab as well as new or refurbished housing of Sin'dorei design.
Attempts to cultivate plague-resistant crops have been met with varying degrees of success on the village's outlying lands.
House Goldenmist and their Fiefdom
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The Fiefdom of Goldenmist was a large and well populated Highelven holding, just south of the Eversong woods.* It boasted a large port presence with a significant trading fleet and was home to a sizable and influential family of nobles. The second largest settlement south of the Elrendar River, it is located to the Northwest of Tranquillien and is encircled nearly completely by the river inlets to the east and the North Sea to the west.
The village began as a small farming settlement, created upon the arrival of the first Highborn onto the shores of the Eastern Kingdoms. Silvermoon had desperate need of agriculture and the largely open fields, coupled with the nutrients flowing through the Elrendar river, made irrigation and cultivation a simple process. Due to the distance between the Amani trolls of Zul'Aman and Goldenmist Village, walls were never needed to surround the settlement, and the safety of the inhabitants was far more easily maintained than when compared to the neighboring settlements of Suncrown, Dawstar or Tranquillien.
As the years progressed and contact with the humans of Arathor began, the nearby coastline saw a massive boom in usage as pioneering merchants of both races began dropping anchor off the gentle coastline and bringing goods ashore. Due to the distance from the capital and the intermixed population stemming from the flow of human and Quel'dorei merchants and vessels, it was common for both races to be seen interacting here quite regularly. As a result of this, halfelves were more numerous and better accepted in Goldenmist Village than anywhere else in the elven Kingdom.
The original village remained largely agrarian even as the much larger moorage outpaced its growth; despite this, the entire settlement would retain the name of Goldenmist Village, both paying homage to the original low caste highborn of the area who made life in Quel'Thalas possible, and a functional legal loophole that assisted in avoiding the higher taxes common in the cities and anchorages of Eversong and in the capital of Silvermoon proper. This decreased tax burden and advantageous geography served as the primary drive of population growth and drastically increased the economic and military influence of the Goldenmist family in the politics of Quel'Thalas.
*Associated map image shown is prior to the Scourge invasion
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