Thornhollow is a ring of timber homes around an ancient oak grove, lit by lanterns and tethered to forest know-how; villagers trade mushroom preserves and carved charms while keeping wary watch for things that move in the deeper woods.
Where lanternlight meets the hush of ancient oaks.
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Elder / Council Speaker
A silver-streaked woman who keeps her hair braided and a ledger of salvage and offerings.
Trapper and mushroom farmer
Stout and quick, with a satchel of spore-samples and a reputation for uncanny tracking.
Timber foreman
Broad-shouldered and sunburned, always carrying measuring rods and charters.
Herbalist and lore-keeper
Wears bark-woven robes and carries a carved bone flute used in small rituals.
Child (apprentice fisher/trapper)
A freckled boy with a knack for finding small things and a love of carved whistles.
General and toolsmith
A low timber shop piled with tools, rope coils, and shelves of forest trinkets where trades are bartered alongside coins.
Herbal apothecary
A quiet backroom fragrant with drying herbs and jars labeled in both common and elven script, where remedies are traded and small prophecies offered.
Villagers, traveling peddlers, and occasional foresters
A low-ceilinged tavern by the river with smoked fish on the spit and a warm hearth where stories are traded for ale.
Local militia / guardians
Volunteer defenders who blend woodland craft with simple arms and a deep knowledge of the terrain.
Outside commercial enterprise
A well-funded concern pushing to open forest tracts for profit, led by a distant timber baron and local foreman Garrik Thorne.
Secretive local cult
A loose group of herb-lore keepers and charm-makers who enforce traditions and punish those who break nature's code.
A mossy ravine where phosphorescent mushrooms grow and travelers report seeing what look like reflected lanterns with no source.
The ruined remains of an old watermill now hollowed and used as a secret meeting place by youths and smugglers.
A small hill overlooking the river with carved whistles and children's trinkets left as offerings for safe return.
A shallow river crossing covered by reeds and used by packhorses to avoid the main road, often with fresh tracks at dawn.
An underground hollow beneath the Ringoak conceals a carved stone altar linked to an ancient pact with a fey guardian.
Garrik Thorne has been covertly trading information with a rival logging interest to edge his employer out.
Elda's ledger notes a dormant curse waiting to activate if two marked grove oaks are felled.
The Vanishing Whistle
Find Bram Hest and unravel whether his disappearance is fey mischief, timber intimidation, or something darker in the ravine.
Cutting the Knot
Negotiate or sabotage the Thorne Cooperative's logging survey to protect the marked groves while avoiding open war.
Glow in the Ravine
Investigate strange lights and mushrooms in Moon-Run Ravine that may signal a spreading blight or a waking fey remnant.
Ledger of Hidden Lines
Recover a torn ledger page that proves Garrik's betrayal, risking confrontation with outside agents to restore evidence to the council.
