Here the Green gathers its people. Voices rise, fires burn low, and paths stretch outward into the Fens. Step closer: this is the heart of human life.
Local Life
The tavern’s talk, the forge’s glow, the quarrels and songs that bind neighbours together. Lives lived close to the land, and the tales that spring from them.
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Irma Vire
Irma Vire shapes her city through metal, precision, and an unsentimental eye for what holds. A structural metallurgist with a mechanic’s flair, she works in a tall stone workshop alongside apprentices, inventors and half-built ideas. Respected, sometimes feared, she builds quietly, firmly, leaving Gotts Keep stronger than she found it.
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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…
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Shelda, the Stoneward
A Vythan of loud laugh and louder certainty. Reads the ground like scripture, jokes with the mountains, and never mistakes silence for stillness.
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Huthran of Bratha
Huthran is a loadwright of the High Morna, known for keeping the settlement's walls sound and its paths passable. He has an instinct for…
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Una Bard
Una of Bardney Fens holds fast to fairness and fen memory. Stubborn, sharp-eyed, she lives lean, grows wild things, and won’t bend to Evergild ways.
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Ethar of Oskerra
Ethar came from Oskerra, once among those who ferried between the isles, carrying provisions and news from shore to shore. It was work done…
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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…
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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…
Tribes and Callings
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The Hax
Folk say the Hax came over the sea eight centuries past, not in conquest but in kin-fleets of carved boats, their hulls packed with beans, peas, and sacks of grain. They hailed from a wooded peninsula, river-laced and marsh-edged, a…
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The Vythans
A Vythan is a human steward of sacred places—springs, stones, groves, and uplands—dedicated to keeping the Hum flowing unbroken through land and people. They claim no ownership, but dwell where the earth’s pulse is strongest, restoring balance through stillness and…
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The Morna Tribe
The Morna are an ancient human tribe once scattered by fear of their weather-sense and sky-marking. Many faded or were absorbed, yet the High Morna endure hidden in the northern mountains. Keepers of thresholds between earth and sky, they appear…
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The Wisefolk
The Wisefolk are subtle artisans of human connection, attuned to the Hum within relationships. They guide bonds to form, heal, or gently release, using tokens, storytelling, and shared rituals. Their ceremonies—like the binding circle of cords exchanged for promises or…
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The Velì Tribe
The Velì move between seen and unseen, harmonising with the Hum rather than commanding it. Solitary and scattered stewards, they anchor fragile thresholds through fasting, meditation, and trance. Their counsel is sought by travellers who journey far for healing or…
