ANALOGUE: Veluwe - Gelderland "Where Mysterious Spirits Roam Inhospitable, impenetrable and inhabited by magical beings you’d better avoid. For centuries, this was the commonly held belief about the Veluwe, where a dark, dense, age-old forest once led into boggy marshland, a veil of mist lingering on even the sunniest of days. The first settlers felled the trees and filled in the ponds, creating heathland and, later, sand drifts; their villages lonely islands in a sea of desolate land."