Thornhollow is a frontier village sunk beneath towering, ancient trees where mist clings to wooden shingles and strings tangle like veins, and a hush covers yards of moving puppets who mimic daily life while a remote witch tends the grove that feeds the spell.
Where the trees remember and the villagers remember no more.
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Former mayor, now a puppet figurehead
A marionette with an embroidered sash who raps a wooden gavel and recites old edicts in a creaking voice.
Witch of the Hollow
A woman in moss-stained robes who tends talismans and speaks to roots with a dry smile.
Blacksmith
A dwarf with blackened, carved hands who pounds iron with uncanny precision.
Hunter and guide
A wiry hunter whose eyes are human and whose hands sometimes refuse puppet motions.
Herbalist
A soft-featured woman with moss in her hair who jars salves with exacting hands.
Smithy
A soot-dark smith with a single coal brazier and racks of hand-carved wares.
Apothecary
A cluttered stall of dried herbs, jars, and whispering roots tended from dawn to dusk.
Hunters, reluctant travelers, and a scattering of puppet patrons who drum on tabletops.
A low-ceilinged tavern where wooden stools creak in time with the wind.
Cult
A loose court of puppets and a single living witch who enforce the curse with quiet theatrics.
Militia
Hunters and guides who resist the curse and smuggle news to nearby settlements.
Druidic Circle
A secretive ring of herbalists and druids who tend the forest roots and keep old oaths.
A massive oak whose carved grin seems to widen when moonlight hits it.
A yard of scattered puppets arranged in frozen domestic scenes.
A black, still pond that reflects people as more string than flesh.
A crossroads marked by a crooked sign that points to forgotten logging camps.
The witch's power is anchored to a turned wooden heart buried under the Grinning Oak.
Several puppets contain actual human memories stolen from travelers over decades.
Mayor Hettin occasionally acts with free will because a fragment of a living soul hides within him.
Some say the witch keeps a human heart carved from the first settler's oak.
Travelers whisper that the puppets occasionally remember faces from their past lives.
A tuning fork found in the puppet yard can still make some dolls weep.
Heart of the Grinning Oak
Free the villagers from the witch's marionette spell by destroying or bargaining for her wooden heart.
The Missing Cog
Recover a lost mechanism stolen from the smith that can animate or silence puppets for a price.
The Stringless Child
Investigate a stringless puppet that moves on its own and learn whether a living soul still hides inside.
A Cargo of Salt
Escort a caravan through Thornhollow and decide whether to risk the witch's ire to trade vital supplies.
