Rumors of Early Spring, 823

  • If a tree cleaves you in the middle of the woods and nobody hears, did it happen?
  • Everyone who attended the funeral of Tanar Orinae, killed for the last time in the Battle of Salendale, ended up cursed.
  • I heard the trees have been hoarding all the components one might usually scavenge. Better cut em all down to see for sure.
  • Any town hoping to be a tourist destination needs a spa.
  • Any mystics out there? Asking for a friend.
  • Kael isnt actually an alchemist, just a really good weaver.
  • Mogudad and Dolan are alchemists.
  • The WFTC is really, really committed to opening another mine.
  • Sometimes the weather fairies and the ground fairies have to fight because the rain fairies make too much rain and its bad for the ground…
  • The nights are filled with the clank of chains and sudden bursts of cold air.
  • Florica is becoming an art collector, as is only proper for a rising Romanza.
  • The Hilltop Occupants Association convenes Aldersday morning by the tavern. Bring your dues.
  • The Aldenbergs are employing the lumberjacks who can’t do that work anymore to gather components from the woods.
  • The wizards must have found some weird research in Salendale, because the sounds coming from the wizards’ guild are … something.
  • Matron Guilia Sarto is relocating her household from Monia to Tandalthas. She has taken former-Sei Ocama with her as a prisoner.
  • Soon, Leopold won’t want components anymore, because he can do anything imaginable by drawing detailed enough diagrams.
  • Lesovik is actually an aspen lyra and not a birch lyra.
  • Within the a Never-Ending Forest is a Never-Ending Tree, that grows up beyond the sky to the Dark Beyond where the “Beasts from the Deep” reside. Every day it changes places, and if you want to summon it you must recite nine chapters of ancient lore. Its only able to be summoned during the spring, summer, and fall, as it goes into the ground during the winter months. Some people get lost within its branches and become “Beasts from the Deep”.
  • Caius and Kael disappeared from town for a while.
  • The WFTC likes the Gold Acorn for all the help they’ve given the people of Kirkale in treating dire-spider bites.
  • The tea house has a new proprietor.
  • Don’t even ask Eleanora about the alligator.
  • Oak Harbor is expanding in almost every demographic, including necromancers.
  • There’s a woman in the woods trying to use Salt on people the Giant Spiders kill. She can’t be a good herbalist, though, 'cause it never works to speak with dead.
  • Mogudad and Dolan are homunculi created via alchemy.
  • Astrophel and Dolan used to hang out with someone called Sogudad, but they didn’t like being the SAD lads.
  • Rosen isn’t allowed to come inside a building unless he’s invited.
  • Colin’s worst nightmares are all about family.
  • Savia lost three cows to predators, and the rats say they went right past their traps without being affected.
  • There sure are a lot of townsfolk carrying around skulls (outside their heads).
  • Lee is becoming a sculpture collector.
  • Erris hasn’t been sleeping well and seems to be mumbling about boats and kittens?
  • You must make Mo’s morning militia muster!
  • Roderago is attempting to become a Velliar by developing the reputation of already being one.
  • Throw a rock in the river at midnight. Come alone.
  • Matron Guilia Sarto is relocating her household from Monia to Celire. She has taken Sei Ocama with her as a special advisor.
  • Alchemists are scary. Sell your components to the Aldenbergs instead! They’re super friendly. (Except Colin. He’s scarier than the Alchemists.)
  • Durand should develop a reputation as Best Captain Ever.
  • The WFTC is angry at the Gold Acorn for stealing spices on the route between Zantia and Kirkale.
  • At the bottom of a cup of tea is a rather precious leaf.
  • There’s been a lot of howling in the woods lately.
  • How sad is it that Oak Harbor has lost more than half a dozen settlers, yet only one of them has a gravestone?
  • Leopold seems to be drawing lots of arcane lines on maps now?
  • The water near the dock has looked concerningly purple lately, but only out of the corner of my eye.
  • Having a red light makes you feel compelled to become an Emissary of Umbra. That’s why all their emissaries have red lights.
  • Someone doesn’t want Durand and Lark to be captains.
  • Dolan has been really moody lately, and randomly slipping off into the woods.
  • Amos is soliciting names for the brewery he plans to open.
  • Does anyone know where Ficus came from? A new gatekeeper, seemingly out of nowhere. Who is she really?
  • Is it just me or is Kael looking particularly regal these days?
  • Maybe we can calm the trees down if we remind them how bad it was under the Ternacenti?
  • The Velliar are going to break ground on a new University in Oak Harbor starting with some sort of tower
  • The Hurzicht have been whispering to each other even more intensely than usual lately
  • The local cheese harvest is being impacted by all the chaos with the trees
  • There is a lot of buzz about Ficus these days
  • A friendship bracelet makes Lyra friendships unbreakable, undying, eternal
  • Amos is expecting!
  • Arcane magic isn’t real, Leopold is just using runes and then taking the components to be used in his alchemical experiments.
  • People have been having more nightmares about books lately. Perhaps being near so many Velliar in Salendale has rubbed off on them.
  • Strigford is going to be busted back to Docent