Verdant Weald
Mireclasp - The Giant Constrictor Snake
The fishing gets worse past a certain bend. Baitcast Wharf learned, the hard way, to turn the boat around.
Skarrow - The Giant Hyena
She never starts the fight. She just makes sure she's the only one still standing when it's over.
Vessowyn - The Giant Owl
You never hear her coming. That's rather the point, and it has kept more than one traveler alive.
Hollowspin - The Giant Spider
Nobody sanctioned the hollow as off-limits. It just stopped being worth explaining why not to go there.
Poppy Windle - Shrine-Keeper of Haltcross Hamlet
At Haltcross Hamlet's corner shrine, halfling caretaker Poppy Windle tends icons of Thraia, Verda, and a wayward tide-goddess alike -- treating every traveler's faith with exactly the same quiet respect.
Aldren Vaile - Guard Captain of Haltcross Hamlet
Haltcross Hamlet's safety rests on a patchwork volunteer watch -- and Aldren Vaile, a former Brightcrown soldier turned guard captain, is the steady hand that actually holds it together.
Bram Hollowdrum - Town Crier of Haltcross Hamlet
Every morning at Haltcross Hamlet begins with Bram Hollowdrum's handbell -- the dwarf town crier who turns dry grain prices and bandit warnings into the one performance the whole crossroads shows up for.
Ottoline Quicktally - Reeve of Haltcross Hamlet
Haltcross Hamlet's five peoples keep an uneasy, functioning peace -- and Reeve Ottoline Quicktally, tallying every grievance as carefully as every coin, is the patient gnome who makes sure it holds.
Marta Stonewell - Innkeeper of the Boar and Blossom
At Haltcross Hamlet's crossroads inn, Marta Stonewell enforces the one rule that keeps a cosmopolitan trade hub from boiling over: leave your grudge at the door.
Sorrowgnaw - The Ghoul
The knights caught the whole ghoul pack that slunk toward Edgewood decades ago -- or so the songs say. One got away. Patience is a ghoul's only virtue.
Verdrax - The Green Dragon Wyrmling
It's still small enough to fit inside a hollow oak. That's exactly why nobody's found it yet.
Thornclutch - The Assassin Vine
The prettiest flowers in the Weald don't need water -- just someone close enough to grab.