Connects to: 04.31.
A rundown stone mill lies among the cornfields, rested on the bank of the Greyslough. It was the preferred mill for the people of the corn because its millstones are of a fine rock that leaves no grit in the flour.
After the Nothing (04.31) was discovered, the cornfolk would throw their toothless victims into it. However, strange invisible assailants began to hunt the people of the corn, and the shamans claimed that these were souls regurgitated by the Nothing.
Though invisible, the stalkers have form and substance. They killed the miller and his three sons, and most of the stalkers are now found in or around the old mill. Sometimes, the millstones can be heard to grind through the night, and white powder wafts out of its windows.
An intruder to the mill would see only six-toed footprints approaching through the powder before being slain.
Hooks
- What are the invisible stalkers grinding?
- Why are they drawn to the mill?
- Where do they come from?
- What are the millstones made from?
The Holt of the Bloodied Lords
Some centuries ago a renegade seelie elf who left both the Kingswood and Zaal (08.27) found himself in this corner of the world and set himself up as a petty king. He called water from the parched earth and fathered a full score of children before growing bored and setting sail into the west. His half-elven descendants still rule this region from a small and poorly-maintained Holt in a small hill that boasts an astounding number of bas-relief rats carved into the walls.
There they attempt to act out what their ancestor told them of life in the Holt of the Bloodied King (29.07), usually with very little success. As their elven blood has thinned and grown increasingly inbred their magic has faded and they can do little to even ward off the local bandits, so the farmers in the area have taken to throwing away all valuables in hopes of being spared (04.31), but they still hold their point-eared betters in awe.
Hooks
- Who was the elf in question? What happened to him?
- Why the rats?
- What sort of elven traditions do these half-elves ape? How do they get them wrong?
- How would people here react if a real elf showed up?
