Willowfen Hollow is a provincial swamp town of reed cottages and raised boardwalks on the White River's edge, where the marsh is both provider and threat and old tragedies linger like fog.
Where the marsh remembers what the hollow tried to forget.
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Reeve
Weathered reeve who balances pragmatism with quiet guilt over past choices.
Healer and Herbalist
Stooped herbalist who knows every marsh remedy and gathers samples at night.
Captain of the Hollow Watch
Quick-eyed captain who trains watchmen and maintains the beacon.
Reedwright and merchant
Human with soot-stained hands and a ready laugh who runs the reedworks.
Bog-keeper and ferryman
Grizzled ferryman with a reed whistle and a scarred hand who knows secret paths.
Tavernkeeper
Lively innkeeper whose gossip is as famous as her stew and who tends a number of friendly debts.
Reedcraft
A cluttered shop of woven wares, repaired tools, and lines of drying reeds.
Apothecary
Shelves of dried roots, jars of salves, and a back room where the healer tends the sick.
Fishermen, reedwrights, and the occasional traveling bargeman.
Low-ceilinged tavern smelling of stew and peat smoke with stools nailed to a plank floor.
Families sharing news, mothers trading recipes, and the Council when it wants hush.
A brighter room with lanterns and long benches where gossip flows as freely as ale.
Militia
Volunteer militia who patrol causeways and escort barges.
Guild
Guild of craftsmen who set prices and train apprentices in reedcraft.
Civic
The town's governing elders who adjudicate disputes and manage stores.
Cult
A secretive circle that tends forgotten graves and whispers to the marsh.
A sunken hollow where plague victims were discarded and peat has since grown over many tombs.
A narrow spit of riverbank where fishermen haul rare eels and whisper about recent blackened catches.
A moss-choked stone causeway that was once a main road and now hides deep, wet ruts and old bones.
A tiny shrine sunk into roots where locals leave willow tokens and offerings for the Greenmother.
A shallow pool that bubbles with cold, peat-tinted water and is rumored to speak at dusk.
Council records reveal a sanctioned program to dump suspected plague victims into the midden to halt the disease.
The midden conceals not only corpses but living victims left to die, fertilizing a malignant spirit in the bog.
An ancient marsh entity once bound to accept proper rites has been neglected, allowing a wrathful plague-wight to awaken.
Black willows bleed sap that burns cloth.
A pale figure walks the causeway at dawn and hums old lullabies.
The old midden holds a keepsake that belonged to the first reeve.
Rot Beneath the Roots
Sickness and strange rot point to the old midden; parties must investigate the bog and confront whatever stirs there.
Ledger in the Floor
A council ledger hidden under Granary Hall may prove the town ordered mass disposals; finding it will cause upheaval or bargaining power.
Offer to the Bog
The Bogbound offer a pact to quiet the mourning dead if the party retrieves an ancestral token from the worst of the midden.
Beacon of Clean Waters
Father Joren seeks reagents and an ancient iron brazier to relight the Boggate Beacon and burn away the taint in the river.
