The Verdant Court
The Forest Remembers. The Forest Strikes.
Lore
Guardians of the ancient groves, the Verdant Court fights to protect the wild places. Their Bladedancers weave through enemies with grace, while Eagle riders patrol the canopy. Spirit Trees channel the living forest itself, and their Mages draw power from the ley lines that run beneath the roots of the world.
Sub-Factions & Player Colors
While every warband recognizes the overarching sigil of The Verdant Court, regional kingdoms, ancient holds, and frontier marches march under their own heraldic colors and ancestral standards. In multiplayer matches, each player color represents a distinct historical sub-faction with unique lore and doctrine.
Primary racial banner displayed across battlefield command centers and fortress ramparts.
Mist-Walkers of Sylvan-Shade
Deep within the mist-shrouded river valleys of Sylvan-Shade, the damp fog never fully dissipates. The Mist-Walkers have learned to breathe the river vapors and move across mossy boulders and river reeds without disturbing a droplet of morning dew. They specialize in elusive guerrilla warfare. Appearing from river fog where enemies least expect them, their archers loose venom-dipped arrows before melting back into the impenetrable river mist, leaving confused sentinels to bleed out in the gloom.
Autumn-Blaze Clan of Celyndar
When the autumn winds turn the oak and maple canopies of Celyndar into a sea of blazing red and gold, the horn of the Wild Hunt echoes through the trees. The Autumn-Blaze Clan believes that fire and death are essential cycles of forest renewal, purging dead wood to allow vibrant saplings to take root. The Wild Hunt rides giant woodland stags through thick underbrush that would break an ordinary horse's legs. Screaming ancient hunting cries, their Bladedancers strike like lightning, leaving burning supply wagons and scattered enemy patrols in their fiery wake.
Emerald Glade-Guard of Sylvarmere
Sylvarmere is the beating heart of the ancient forest realms. At its center stands the World-Oak, whose roots tap the primeval aquifers of the planet and whose canopy shelters over twenty thousand wood elves in interconnected bough-palaces. The Glade-Guard are the supreme guardians of the Spirit Tree network. By communion with the trees, they harvest continuous passive lumber without felling a single branch, freeing their economy to recruit massive armies that pass effortlessly through dense tree trunks to flank intruders.
Dream-Singers of the Sacred Bough
The Dream-Singers dwell in the eternal twilight of the deepest old-growth glades, where luminous spore-fungi and bioluminescent moths drift through the air. They spend decades slumbering in moss hammocks, walking the Fey Dream and learning the primordial speech of ancient forest spirits. In battle, their singing weaves reality itself. With a single whispered stanza, ancient tree roots erupt from the earth to entangle entire enemy regiments, while their Tranquility auras bathe allied warriors in soothing light that knits broken limbs and calms frantic minds.
Sun-Glade Watch of Elenar
Stationed in the towering redwood lookouts of the Elenar plateau, the Sun-Glade Watch keeps vigil over the forest borders. Aided by bonded giant eagles that nest in the crown branches, their sentinels spot smoke plumes and enemy movements twenty leagues away. The archers of Elenar are peerless marksmen. Drawing composite bows crafted from laminated yew and stag sinew, they can drop enemy officers from three hundred paces away, kiting slower enemy infantry across the forest with flawless coordination.
Amber-Bark Defenders of Teth-Gwyn
The elves of Teth-Gwyn inhabit a grove of colossal trees whose sap hardens into amber as tough as dwarven iron. They do not quarry stone for ramparts; instead, they sing to the living roots, coaxing thick thorn-hedges and bramble barricades to grow into towering living battlements. These living walls slowly regenerate their own damage during combat. When an invader approaches with torches or axes, the ancient Treant guardians awaken, uprooting massive limbs to crush war machines and trample sappers beneath tons of living timber.
Wild-Root Tribe of the Deep Weald
The Wild-Root Tribe has abandoned the refined etiquette of the court elves, adopting the feral instincts of the great predators of the deep forest. They live alongside packs of giant forest wolves, bears, and great horned stags, communicating through guttural barks and pheromone scents. Their shock troops fight alongside towering Siege Beasts—massive primordial woodland behemoths fitted with spiked hardwood ramming frames. In assault engagements, these living siege engines crash through stone portcullises like dry twigs.
Thorn-Guard of the Iron Wood
The Iron Wood is an ancient forest biome where the tree bark has absorbed natural iron deposits from the soil, creating wood so dense that it blunts woodsman axes on contact. The Thorn-Guard has fortified the labyrinthine thorn corridors with concealed pits and barbed briars. Their battle doctrine punishes aggression. Units attacking the Thorn-Guard suffer significant returned damage as barbed brambles and spiked shields shred flesh with every blow, turning narrow defiles into blood-drenched slaughter pens.
Silver-Bough Hermits of the White Birch
The White Birch Grove of Nim-Loth is a sanctuary of sacred silence. Here, ancient hermits maintain the balance between mortal beings and primeval nature spirits. They wear white tunics woven from thistle silk and carry polished willow staves that never spill blood. When drawn into war, their Wardancers display supernatural evasion. Drifting through combat like dandelion seeds on a gentle breeze, they effortlessly dodge swords, spears, and crossbow bolts before disarming opponents with fluid, non-lethal grace.
Dark-Root Stalkers of the Gloom Hollows
In the sunless ravines where ancient rot consumes fallen leviathan trunks, the Dark-Root Stalkers make their silent home. These are the grim executioners of the forest, answering trespass with merciless finality. They coat their barbed arrows in the venom of subterranean corpse-spiders. Operating under cover of night and deep canopy shadow, the Stalkers execute devastating first-strike ambushes. Enemy commanders frequently find their forward scouting outposts dead to the last man before a single horn can be sounded.
Heroes
Heroes level up in battle, choosing one of two abilities at levels 3, 6 and 9.
Lady Elenari, Birch-Dancer of Nim-Loth
Bladeless Dancer
Dandelion Drift
For 3 s she evades every attack, drifting 6 tiles through the enemy line in a spray of white seeds; each attacker that misses is disarmed for 2 s.
Stillwater: a pale willow stave with a pearl-white finial that has never drawn blood; it has broken a great many wrists.
- Lady Elenari, Birch-Dancer of Nim-Loth, Bladeless Dancer. Stillwater: a pale willow stave with a pearl-white finial that has never drawn blood; it has broken a great many wrists.
- Hunt-Master Emberhorn, White-Stag Rider. The Horn of Celyndar: a curled cream horn hung at the rider's hip, blown once each autumn to start the Hunt; everyone who hears it runs, one way or the other.
- Lady Faewynn, the Mist-Weaver, Fog-Calling Paddler. Telynn's Paddle: a paddle cut from the first canoe on the Whispering Glade river, carved with leaf and wave; the river answers when it strikes the ground.
- Captain Briar-Thorn, Untouchable Thorn Captain. The Knot: a standing-stone slab shield bound by a four-corner briar knot that grows through it; it bites.
- Nyssa Moth-Singer, Sleep-Fighting Singer. The Moth-Silk Hammock: the cocoon she slept in for sixty years; she wears it as a cloak and it still dreams.
- Elder Morval, the First-Bough, Amber-Bleeding Ancient. The Ring-Shield: a slice of the stump of the first tree an axe ever felled in Teth-Gwyn; he counts its rings when angry.
- Arch-Druid Oakheart, Voice of the World-Oak, Tree-Walking Druid. A towering, moss-draped Treant Elder who commands the primeval flora of the deep forest, crushing invaders with living branches and impenetrable bark.
- Warden Thornwatch, Stalker of Mor-Sil, Raven-Hooded Stalker. A silent, hooded shadow-blade of the deep woods who executes priority targets with poisoned daggers and vanishes seamlessly into the forest canopy.
- Ashglimmer, Centaur Scout-Chief, Centaur Scout-Chief. A grim, vengeance-driven marksman whose ancestral glade was incinerated by war, unleashing volleys of fire-hardened piercing arrows from the canopy.
- High Tender Mosswhisper, Weald-Mother, Moose-Riding Healer. A serene yet fierce druidic healer who channels the restorative vitality of the forest to mend horrific wounds and sustain the elven vanguard.
Hero Progression
Heroes are the heart of your warband. They grow stronger every battle, learn signature abilities, equip legendary loot, and can even be taken under your direct command.
Earn XP & Level Up
Choose Your Path
Equip Legendary Gear
Outfit heroes across 8 equipment slots with gear from your faction blacksmith and the neutral Troll-Vault — plus tomes for permanent stat boosts.
Take Direct Control
Army Roster
21 units across ground, air, sea, and trade. Master every warrior to dominate the battlefield.
⚔️Ground Forces(10)
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14050🦅Flying Units(3)
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2508040⚓Naval Fleet(5)
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200100💰Trade Units(2)
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15010050✨Summoned(1)
Conjured by spells rather than trained — they fight for a limited time, then fade away.
👑The King(1)
Regicide only. Your monarch stands in your base from the first second of the match, cannot be trained, replaced or rebuilt, and carries no weapon. Kill the enemy King and the match is over — lose yours and so are you.
Buildings
Key structures for the Wood Elves faction. Build your economy, train your army, and fortify your defenses.
⚙️Command & Production(10)
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40080200🛡️Defense(6)
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25080100⚓Naval & Oil(5)
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20080🗿Wonder(1)
200020001500Hero Gear
Equip your heroes with gear forged at the Wood Elf blacksmith and consecrated at its altar. Faction-exclusive pieces are found nowhere else, while the shared arsenal is stocked at other factions' shops too.
Faction-Exclusive(6)
+2 armor, +0.8 movement speed. Nearby allies regenerate +1 HP per second.
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+0.3 movement speed. Nearby allies regenerate +0.75 HP per second.
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+4 attack damage, +10% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
360
+1 armor, +0.5 movement speed.
320
+0.75 movement speed, +1 armor.
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+0.5 mana regeneration, +0.3 HP regeneration per second.
195Shared Arsenal(40)
+2 armor, +10% crit, 5% lifesteal, +1 mana regeneration.
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+5 armor, reflects 3 melee damage, +1 HP regeneration per second.
1200
+6 armor, +2 HP regeneration per second, 5% lifesteal.
1200
+6 attack damage, +10% critical strike chance. Melee heroes only.
700
+5 attack damage, +15% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
700
+25 spell power, +1 mana regeneration per second. Caster heroes only.
700
+5 armor, +1 HP regeneration per second.
700
+4 attack damage, +2 armor.
680
+10% critical strike chance, 5% lifesteal.
650
+3 armor. Reflects 2 damage to melee attackers.
650
Sound the horn: nearby allies gain +3 damage for 10 seconds. 30s cooldown.
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Nearby allies regenerate +0.75 HP per second.
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+0.25 mana regen. Nearby allied casters gain +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
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+15 spell power, +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
375
+3 armor, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
360
+15% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
350
+1 armor. Nearby allies reflect 2 damage to melee attackers.
350
+2 armor, +0.3 movement speed.
350
+1 HP regeneration per second, +1 armor.
340
+0.75 mana regeneration per second.
325
+0.7 movement speed, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
320
+2 armor. Reflects 1 damage to melee attackers.
300
+0.8 movement speed.
300
Permanently increases the hero's attack damage by 2.
250
Permanently increases the hero's armor by 1 and attack speed by 5%.
250
Permanently increases the hero's maximum mana by 15 and mana regeneration.
250
+0.35 movement speed, +1 armor.
215
Permanently adds 3 backpack slots, up to 30.
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+3 attack damage. Melee heroes only.
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+3 attack damage. Ranged heroes only.
200
+10 spell power. Caster heroes only.
200
+1 armor, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
200
+2 attack damage.
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+2 armor.
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+0.55 movement speed.
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+0.4 movement speed.
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+0.25 mana regeneration per second.
100
+1 armor.
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+0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+1 armor.
75From the Custom Games
The Wood Elves race their own cars in Wheels of Stone and build their own cities in Cities of Stone. Every prop here also stands in the Forge for your own maps.
Wheels of Stone
About Wheels of Stone →Race cars(2)
Carved stag at the prow, leaves in the wake. Drifts like it was born to.
Swiftwind: Full speed off the road, and sharper turning, for a while.
A round shell of living wood. Shrugs off hits and rolls through the moss.
Barkskin: A ward that turns the next hit.
