The Shrouded Fens

Tag: Lowen

  • Corenna Hale

    Born of western smiths, she ruled Kellack’s market with polish and precision. Beneath the great elm, her stall gleamed—cloth brushed, jars shining, every detail exacting.

  • The Ghost-Stone

    A Quiet Trade The fire was low, and the air in the Toad and Lantern smelled of damp reed thatch and long-boiled roots. No one paid much mind to Lowen — they were always alone, usually busy with something in their hands: a bottle, a file, a twist of wire. Tonight it was nothing. Just…

  • Beneath Oliedna’s Elders

    The East Field The fire was down to its gossiping embers in the The Toad and Lantern and its patrons were blurring a little at the edges, the conversation dizzy. Lowen had sat an hour in the kind of silence that happens only in noise—content, thoughtless, letting the tide of talk rise and fold around them.…

  • A Glance, a Trade, a Beginning

    The ducks wove like thread through the market at Kiln Green, trailing laughter behind them as children shrieked and scattered, chasing one another with willow sticks wound in red and yellow cloth. One duck hopped up onto the stool beside Lowen’s stall, peering at the cloth lining their display basket as if it too might…

  • Grimbles How

    Grimbles How is a limestone ridge forming the central landmark of a small region to which it lends its name. To south and west lie fertile clay lowlands and drained fens. To the north and east, wet woodlands create a sparsely inhabited wilderness, giving way to Bardney Fen (part of The Shrouded Fens), and past…

  • Brimshaw and Elm Cotes

    Brimshaw is a small, quiet settlement nestled within a coppice wood near the base of Grimbles How, where the residents engage in light coppicing and foraging to sustain their needs. Nearby lies a modest pottery and an orchard shared between three households. Running along the base of the ridge from Brimshaw is the Brimshaw Twitchel,…

  • The Weight of a Name

    Main:Gwynviène Avenloré, Lowen Foss Other:PanvierPanvier, unnamed lesser fae Where:Outskirts of Lindral Citadel, on the road to the outer wilds of Gildraen When:Present-day Evergild Era, shortly after Gwyn and Lowen begin traveling together Theme:Privilege, names and identity, perception, inherited legacy, quiet reckoning, humility Summary:Far from the Library’s familiar corridors, Gwynviène Avenloré finds that her name—once a…

  • The Fae and The Elves

    The room smelled of dust and rosemary. They had pulled the ancient vellum scroll from a crumbling folio wedged behind a loose plank in the library shelves. No title. Just a faint mark scorched into the margin—an old glyph for beginning. Gwynviène sat with the scroll unfurled across her lap, her fingertip hovering just above…

  • Lowen Foss

    Lowen (Low) Foss is a human traveller, the child of Elowen, a strong-willed silversmith, and Old Foss, a quiet, mildly magical druid tied to the rhythms of the land. Their mother taught them the strength of craft and the patience of shaping metal. She was patient but firm, teaching Lowen through doing rather than explaining,…

  • Elowen Hale

    Silversmith Elowen Hale is a human craftswoman of quiet precision and enduring patience. Once apprenticed in the House of Craft, she left before ever claiming title or name — disillusioned by the rigid perfectionism and ornamental detachment of the noble workshops. She took her tools, her skill, and the memory of their methods into the…