“Fenroot Remedies is built around the hollow trunk of an ancient fallen tree, and its shelves follow the curve of the wood. Bundles of herbs hang from the rafters like small sleeping birds, filling the air with scents of cedar, vinegar, mushrooms, and smoke. Rainwater runs through carved gutters into barrels beside the entrance, while a rack of waterproof cloaks and rope coils stands beneath a hand-painted sign showing a green root wrapped around a silver knife. Mira Fenroot is a compact, weathered woman in her early fifties with gray-streaked dark hair, a patched russet coat, and sharp green eyes that miss very little. She is practical, suspicious of wealthy outsiders, and quick to test whether a customer knows the difference between a useful remedy and an expensive fraud. She keeps a hooked walking staff within reach and records nearly every unusual purchase in a coded journal. Mira believes the forest's changing paths are caused by poisoned roots or unnatural magic beneath the soil. She supplies most of Dornruh's dried food, basic salves, rope, candles, and travel gear, so hunters, charcoal burners, guides, and caravans all depend on her shop. She also trades regularly with the herbalist faction on the Elder Council, though their relationship is strained by the dwindling supply of silverleaf from the forbidden ruin. Mira knows that several missing travelers purchased Ashvein Herb shortly before they disappeared. She suspects the herb is a marker or ingredient connected to Dornruh's secret trade routes, but hesitates to reveal what she knows because exposing the routes could damage the settlement's economy and put innocent local traders at risk. She may share the truth with a party that protects a vulnerable traveler, refuses payment from a wealthy exploiter, or brings proof that the forest paths are being altered by something unnatural.”