The Queen of the Fairies, and Aldhairen's bride, dwells in the land south of Aldhairen, east of the Dark Wood, and north east of Sirena and the Serpent Sea. Her lands are some of the most gloriously beautiful in the entire Twelve Kingdoms, rolling downward to the Golden Valley, and then spilling in the Foaming Falls, drawn from the waters of Loch Orawn to the True World. Islendil herself lives in the southern Spire of Sunset, next to her husband.

Certainly, the jewel of Islendil is the Golden Valley with its Ivory Citadel. Legend says that it was here that the Moon, who was then a human girl, lived locked within her citadel when the Titan Sun saw her and fell in love. So long did he dally in her valley, that he turned the whole land golden. But men complained to Brangwenn who has been set to watch over that world, that the Sun shone no where else, and all the crops were withering from want of light. So the Moon was banished from her citadel and the Sun was put within a flower for a time until he was freed and put back on the sky paths after his beloved Moon by Ostrung the Giant. Whether such a story is true, doubtless the ruins of the Citadel still stand, and the Golden Valley is warm year round and its merry buds bloom in all seasons.

Many noble families have taken up residence under Islendil's rule. Among them are Branmoor to the north, just south of Loch Orawn, whose ancestors were Brynn, the third son of Cwm mac Ceilyn, the Lord of Ainsidhe, and the daughter of Muirdoch during the time of Deirdre, after the defeat of the Wolf King.

Southward, by the river Rhun and the Cauldron Fens is Castell Doon. East, along the Serpent Sea, is the home of Fingal, who won the hand of Sorcha, the daughter of the (earth elemental) Vertumn Llellemond, Lord of Summer, and his (wind elemental) Wydoema bride, Eileen, Lady of Zephyrs (see picture - click to enlarge).

Alas, where the mountains begin again to edge the world, at the very corner of the Serpent Sea, the last of the necromancers, Ruthvyn Silverhands has his keep.