Carrionwing - The Giant Vulture
She isn't waiting for you to die anymore. She's decided to help.
Thistlewick - The Boggle
It used to just hide your shoes. Now it wears your mother's face.
Pondwallow - The Giant Toad
The pond took the geese first. Nobody noticed until it took something that could scream.
Rotbloom - The Violet Fungus
The cellar's been quiet for years. That should have been the warning, not the comfort.
Duskmaw - The Stirge
The itch on your neck isn't a bug bite. It's an invitation you already accepted.
Nib Glasswick - Glassblower of Lyreleaf
No potion or salve leaves Lyreleaf without passing through Nib Glasswick's kiln first -- the gnome glassblower whose vials and bottles quietly keep the village's famous alchemy intact all the way to market.
Fennig Barkhollow - Tanner of Lyreleaf
Every satchel, boot, and saddle in Lyreleaf passes through Fennig Barkhollow's tannery -- the gnome craftsman whose patient, oak-bark leather has outlasted three decades of travelers on the Saltspray Swamp road.
Wendell Longbarrow - Village Elder of Lyreleaf
No throne, no garrison, no seal of its own -- just a halfling elder named Wendell Longbarrow, who has kept Lyreleaf self-governed and safely beneath Brightcrown's notice for six careful years.
Garland Ninebells - Festival Steward of Lyreleaf
Whenever a rare bloom opens or an alchemist perfects a new potion, Lyreleaf celebrates within a day -- because gnome shopkeeper Garland Ninebells already has the lanterns, ribbon, and favors ready to go.
Tilly Marrowgate - Road Warden of Lyreleaf
At the edge of Lyreleaf where the road turns to mist and swamp, halfling warden Tilly Marrowgate has spent eleven years making sure every cart bound for Saltspray Swamp is exactly what it claims to be.
Hallowtine - The Giant Elk
See him before the planting, and the harvest holds. Greenbranch has never once been wrong about it.
Mireclasp - The Giant Constrictor Snake
The fishing gets worse past a certain bend. Baitcast Wharf learned, the hard way, to turn the boat around.