When filceolaire first took me to Oxleas Wood, in the summer of 2004, I became just fascinated with the place. Having grown up in the US, I was unaccustomed to seeing forests with paths big enough to drive a car through, and to me it looked like a movie set, because that's the only place I'd ever seen a forest like it.
When I got home that evening, I spent a long time online looking up Oxleas Wood. And do you know, there were only a few things about it online at the time. The Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxleas_Wood) for Oxleas Wood did not exist yet. We decided that the only way something like Oxleas could be kept a secret for so long were if there were some powerful magic operating in the wood itself. One of the few sites we did find was the Dragon Network (http://www.dragonnetwork.org/campaigns/oxleas.htm) article about saving the wood from road development in 2002, which fed into my fancies nicely. :-) More poetic waxing about Oxleas Wood can be found in the EOTW and EOTW2 filters.
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Date: 2007-09-17 09:44 am (UTC)When I got home that evening, I spent a long time online looking up Oxleas Wood. And do you know, there were only a few things about it online at the time. The Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxleas_Wood) for Oxleas Wood did not exist yet. We decided that the only way something like Oxleas could be kept a secret for so long were if there were some powerful magic operating in the wood itself. One of the few sites we did find was the Dragon Network (http://www.dragonnetwork.org/campaigns/oxleas.htm) article about saving the wood from road development in 2002, which fed into my fancies nicely. :-) More poetic waxing about Oxleas Wood can be found in the EOTW and EOTW2 filters.