Every road out of the fields ends at market.

Every road out of the fields ends at market.

Everything in Sheafcross is sold by the cartload. Grain, hay, onions, apples, cheese, wool, eggs, piglets and opinions all change hands at the crossing,...

She'll raise your spirits, and your dead, with equal grace.

She'll raise your spirits, and your dead, with equal grace.

Her craft is as terrible as it is delicate. She draws the blood of the fallen into spears, lashes and shimmering barriers, and she can raise the freshly...

Old grudges burn poorly beside fresh graves.

Old grudges burn poorly beside fresh graves.

Among the scorched ruins, a leader rises, not for glory, but because there is no one else left to stand. The clans are scattered, divided by blood feuds...

72 Cities
77 Chronicles
101 Souls
38 Species
14 Orders
Gloamback Ogre
  • Bark-Brown Hide
  • Patient Watcher
  • Treeline Sentinel

Gloamback Ogre

Teen 13+
Gloamback ogres are what happens when an ogre decides to be part of the forest. Tall, lean and bark-brown, patched in moss and lichen, they sit at the edge of the dark so still that travellers walk past them without noticing, until the amber eyes catch the lantern light.

They are patient, silent and uneasy in company, and far gentler than their size suggests. They do not fight if they can help it, but they will move a trespasser along without discussion, and they warn the people who live near the tree line when something is wrong. They like quiet, dusk and being left to it. Anyone who needs one to talk learns to bring bread and to wait.

Still as a stump, watching the dark.