Research

Mines, Quarries and Industries of the pastMoorland tin-streaming dates back to the 12th century and earlier, and the ruins of tin, copper, lead, zinc and silver mines abound. You'll discover mineral spoil heaps in river valleys and derelict blowing houses, wheel pits and tinners' huts at sites such as Wheal Betsy, Vitifer, Birch Tor and Golden Dagger. You'll also find the mounds of medieval warrens, where rabbits were bred to feed the miners. Look for evidence of other industries too - tramways for china clay pits and granite quarries, the buildings of a gunpowder factory at Powdermills, and the leats which supplied moorland water to Devonport and Plymouth .

I want to try to base my game/character around some of the famous features around dartmoor like the mines, and the prison, also some of the famous monuments and statues.


Before the mid 19th century, pixies and fairies were taken seriously in much of Cornwall and Devon. Books devoted to the homely beliefs of the peasantry are filled with incidents of pixie manifestations. Some locales are named for the pixies associated with them. In Devon, near Challacombe, a group of rocks are named for the pixies said to dwell there. At Trevose Head in Cornwall 600 pixies were said to have gathered dancing and laughing in a circle that had appeared upon the turf until one of their number, named Omfra, lost his laugh. After searching amongst the barrows of the ancient kings of Cornwall on St Breock Downs, he wades through the bottomless Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor until his laugh is restored by King Arthur in the form of a Chough.^[8] In some areas belief in pixies and fairies as real beings persists.