Other Names

Wolf-Ward

Rarity

Somewhat common

Description

A grape-like plant found in the Flooded Lands and some very southern reaches of the Havens. Bears very pale lavender blooms, followed by bunches of berries that are disconcertingly eye-like in appearance.

Interactions

The blooms are toxic to wolves and wolf-like humanoids, causing faintness and nausea upon exposure.

Dangers

None.

Medicinal Uses

Covering burn injuries with the leaves helps speed healing. Similar application may also be used to relieve reactions to especially spicy foods.

Culinary Uses

The berries are edible, though some circles maintain that they can only be safely eaten with one's own eyes shut. Especially popular as a dried food.

Can be used for wines but are not a popular taste.

Practical Uses

None.

Other Uses

When dried, the blooms are a key component in several powder makeups.

When used as fuel for a scry, said to enhance the clarity of the resulting image.

The matriarch of Stormfall Ironworks, a former raider who took an arrow to the knee both literally and metaphorically. A near-lethal shot (from Unknown, coincidentally) knocked her off of her gaunt, and she was left to die by her squadron-- her life was saved by a lone fisherman, Bevan, who'd managed to hide from the raiders. They found themselves well-matched in temperament and love of quality weaponry, and would soon marry and start a smithy together. Their blades are well-renowned by Ironlands standards, but Miga's new family never stayed in one place for too long, fearing that her past would come back to haunt them. Her bad leg is getting worse, though, and she hopes that the pleasant forests of Mossgrove can be their permanent home.

Miga truly just wants the best for her family and her business, but her pushy, irreverent nature grates on the traditionally polite folks of Mossgrove, and her secretiveness about her past raises their suspicions. Her relationship with her son, Togan, is testy; she wouldn't trade him for anything, but their personalities are simply so different that she doesn't know how to handle him, and her insecurity about parenting in general doesn't mix well with her raider's spartan pride. She orchestrates the arranged marriage between him and Lucya partly for political advantage, but mostly to ensure he can support himself should something happen to her.

A sketchy little swamp town near the edge of the Flooded Lands with little to its name but the local tavern and some magic somethings that aren't really powerful enough to warrant much scrutiny. Lucya left for here after swearing her vow to find Brynn and met Jagal, who somewhat inadvertantly roped her into helping find the "lost" scrying guide.

Eleri and Tanvir have had somewhat of a rivalry in their information guarding, with each of them having a different specialty. Tanvir plays dirty and Eleri has had about darn well enough. The book Eleri guards secretly holds the key to something called the Forge of Fates, a strange place that shifts in location and purportedly can only be found by the worthy. They were already well aware of this, but they're not about to tell Tanvir about it.