The Shrouded Fens

Archives: Chronicles

  • A Shift in the Steeps

    The Morna argued the sky while the fire smoked low. Shelda stood among the Vythans, listening to their words roll and fold like weather over stone. Then one Morna spoke—measured, certain, his voice cutting clean through the haze. She watched him a while, thinking the mountain wasn’t the only thing shifting.

  • The Feather in His Belt

    Osric looks up, squints into the mist. He’s looking for his ducks, calling them in for the night. One keeps wandering down the bank where it’s too steep for him to follow, not with his leg. “Ruby,” he calls—half anxious, half exasperated when he catches a glimpse of her. Her white feathers are like a…

  • The Story of Kallhor: The Journey’s Knot

    The Braids were half-fabled, half-hidden. Few entered; fewer returned with the truth of what they’d seen. Old Foss went looking for them anyway, carrying the Black Blade and the Quiet Book, seeking Primavelda to cut the binding on his kin.

  • The Incident of the Goose

    As recalled (unreliably) by all parties involved Event: The Civic Literary ForumDate: Unspecified, but frequently referred to as “that cursed spring” Outcome: The Three Quills of Lindral banned from sharing a stage at any publicly funded event The Civic Literary Forum was supposed to be a celebration of civil discourse, thoughtful debate, and the value of…

  • Night Flowers

    A story of subtle magic, repair, and return. Primavelda and Florivane slip through the folds of the Braids to untangle what has grown wrong — not in people or walls, but in water, root, and pattern. It starts with the path. Not a made path — just the way the ground opens if you step…

  • The Fox and the Goose

    Main:Lady Lineia Avenloré, Lord Tavian Avenloré Other:Noble Nyrelith Avenloré, Noble Venn Avenloré, Lady Selvarithe Avenloré, Warden Juniper Bryrehart, Lady Syraëlle Avenloré, Lord Elovain Avenloré, unnamed mother of Tavian, unnamed grandfather of Tavian, unknown entity Where:The Library, Greenmire, the wild woods between When:Present-day Evergild Era Theme:Love and fear, legacy, control vs freedom, matriarchy, transformation, survival, becoming oneself,…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • The Apprentice’s Pendant

    The meeting story of Orris Foss and Elowen Hale, and what grew between them—quietly, and by hand. Chapter I: What Holds Grief settles into corners. Foss didn’t often weep, but he’d cried that morning. Quietly, behind the shed, where the rain barrel used to be. He’d found the stone his mother, Sorrel, had set by…

  • The Ascendant March

    Notable battles: The Battle of Ink and Ash, located at Eredran Fields An Evergild campaign to “unify” the realm under their truth — widely remembered (and taught) as a righteous, heroic effort to bring order and stability to a world unravelled by chaos. In truth, it was a carefully orchestrated purge of dissident thought and inconvenient…