The Freehold of Four Rivers

Setting
City: Providence, RI

Freehold: The Freehold of Four Rivers

Start Date: June 2013, one month after your escape from Arcadia.



The Freehold of Four Rivers is a relatively small freehold, only just large enough to be goverened by the Seasonal Great Courts rather than a single, constant ruler. Founded in the early 1800's, the freehold has remained fairly small due to its relatively low number of trods and the proximity of the Boston Freehold, a much larger changeling community.

The freehold's name may seem misleading at first glance. The Seekonk River is the only truly visible river still large eough to qualify for the title, making up the bulk of Providence River and the northern part of Providence Harbor. The much smaller Woonasquatucket River flows through Downtown Providence into the Seekonk, and two other small rivers also join the Providence River (barely-visible Moshassuck River through College Hill, and Pawtuxet River through Warwick, south of the city). On the Hedge side of things, however, all four rivers have wide, turbulent fae reflections, giving the freehold its name.

Four Rivers is governed by the Seasonal Courts. Each court leads the freehold for three months of the year, rotating on the first day of each new season (March, June, September, and December). Each court is led by a Queen, and the four Queens are thought to be sisters; they do all appear to have the same face, leading to tales among the freehold's changelings of abducted sisters, broken mirrors, and a single changeling changing court (and somehow changing seeming) with each new season. If anyone has run into one of the Queens outside of her ruling season, they haven't said.

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