A grown goblin woman barely three and a half feet tall, with green skin, a lean face, a long nose, and sharp cheekbones. Her dark hair is twisted into a bun secured with a yellow ribbon. Laugh lines crease the corners of her eyes, which keep flicking to exits, loose hands, and anyone standing too close to her booth. She waits with most of her weight on one foot, knees loose, as if a performance might start or a quick escape might be needed. Her wry half-smile makes her seem amused even when she is measuring a threat. She holds a knight hand puppet with a little bee shield high over her head, its painted grin bright against the carved shadows of the booth.

Fenna is warm enough to make strangers feel included, but watchful enough to remember who stood where when the laughter stopped. She enjoys making a crowd laugh, yet resents being treated as harmless entertainment. In a relaxed mood she is nimble with stories and generous with advice; when frightened she becomes brisk, practical, and hard to read. She distrusts authority, but sometimes longs for the safety of a settled home.

Fenna learned puppetry from her aunt, a traveling performer who taught her that a puppet could say what its handler could not safely say aloud. When Fenna was a child, a frightened village crowd mistook a comic goblin puppet for a threat and drove her aunt from the green. Fenna stayed behind long enough to see the puppet trampled in the mud. That day changed her craft: she began making stories that let a crowd laugh at its own fears before those fears could turn cruel. Now she travels from village to village with a tall folding booth and a patched cast of characters. She is trying to earn enough to buy back the little puppet theater her aunt once rented, while quietly seeking the aunt who vanished after their last winter together. Fenna still writes to her former apprentice, Miri, who wants her to settle down and teach, and she avoids the local reeve, who claims her performances stir up trouble. Her current problem is a missing puppet, the bee-shielded knight, which disappeared after a show where it repeated a private detail about the reeve's household.