Blackwell Village sits at the forest's edge where crooked cottages gather around a river bend and a scar of charcoal kilns, and villagers balance old reverence for the wood with the daily needs of survival.
A village clinging to the edge of a watchful wood.
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Reeve
A sharp-eyed woman who carries a carved staff and a ledger of debts.
Head Warden and woodcutter
A broad-shouldered woodsman with a scarred forearm and blunt humor.
Shrine Keeper and healer
Mild-faced and steady, she keeps the shrine's ledger and herbs.
Apothecary and herbalist
A quick-handed apothecary who keeps jars labeled in a tidy script.
Innkeeper and tavernkeeper
An old man with a ready grin and a ledger of debts scribbled in the margins.
Ranger and scout
A lithe ranger with leaf-patterned cloak and an unreadable smile.
Apothecary
A tidy apothecary filled with labeled jars, drying herbs, and a locked drawer of curios.
General Goods
A low-ceilinged goods shop stacked with rope, nails, salted meat, and simple tools.
Hunters, wardens, traveling merchants, and the occasional curious elf.
A smoky common room with a broad hearth, hand-carved benches, and a pegboard of missing items.
Military
Militia of woodsmen sworn to guard the village border and patrol the trails at night.
Guild
A loose guild of gatherers who map the wilds and trade rare herbs and fungi.
Druidic
A secretive circle that tends to the old places of the wood and pushes for stricter protections.
A stand of trees whose trunks bear old notches and faint glyphs.
A shallow pool that reflects stars even in daylight and is said to answer simple questions.
A moss-covered ruin where carved stones show a half-remembered language.
A cluster of charcoal kilns and drying sheds that mark the village's working quarter.
Coren keeps a secret ledger marking unnatural clearings that appeared overnight, suggesting something or someone is shaping the wood.
Old Jory holds letters that reveal a quiet love affair between a villager and an outsider who may have ties to a merchant lord.
The Old Oak Shrine sits above a thin seam of ley energy that can be tapped by rituals to alter memory or sight.
An old druid sleeps beneath the Broken Circle and will wake if the right song is sung.
Charcoal made at the Kiln Row sells for double in Ashford when mixed with a certain fern.
A lost road in the wood leads to an abandoned homestead with a blue glass window.
The Vanishing at Moonstone
A child vanished near a moonlit grove and strange footprints were found that vanish at the old stones.
Iron Through the Pines
A merchant offers a contract to escort a herd of muleloads of iron through the wood, but others want the shipment intercepted.
Smoldering Secrets
Someone poisons several charcoal kilns to hide illegal felling and the wardens need discreet answers.
The Humming Hollow
Sister Edda requests help to retrieve a lost relic from a hollow where the trees hum at night.
