Angel Oak
The Angel Oak is a site of Glamour in the state of South Carolina.
Overview
At 1,500 years old with a 25 1/2-foot circumference and a 151-foot span of branches, Angel Oak is among th oldest and largest oak trees in Concordia. Beautiful and strong, the tree's green branches stretch upward toward the sky and spread outward over emerald green grasses and its own knobby roots. Located on Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina, the tree often serves as a shady refuge for picnickers. No one carves initials into its bark or leaves trash within its spread; somehow those who approach the tree feel the respect due it and act accordingly.
Kithain who come close to the tree realize it holds within it a great repository of Glamour, almost as if the oak itself were a freehold. It is a faerie residence, though not a freehold. The oak is an anchor point for a nymph. Known as the Lady of the Island, she sometimes acts as an advisor to those changelings who request her aid. Services she asks in return vary from caring for other groves of trees to keeping intruders away from a particularly sensitive wetlands to telling her stories she has never heard. Rumors abound that the Lady was once the beloved of a faerie king.
- See Muireann
References
- CTD. Kingdom of Willows, p. 60.