Gloamhollow

A town under an eclipse that never passes: tall crooked houses with steep black-slate roofs, every window crowded with candles, violet ward posts on every corner, a watch bell rung when the shadows move, chalk circles on the cobbles and pale moths.

The town torch

Every town has a torch on its plaza. Light it with the staff and it becomes Wick's checkpoint: a fall ends here, resting at the lit torch heals, and a lit torch is also a stop for lantern travel. Resting heals Wick, but it wakes the land's creatures again.

People

• The Gloam Mother: A blind seer the town is half afraid of; she reads the shadows. Gives a clue quest.
• Wat, keeper of the Lamplit Inn: Keeps every lamp in his inn burning; never lets a room go dark.
• Hesper the ward-seller: Sells wards, charms and chalk against the dark; believes in every one of them.
• Corwin the lamplighter: Walks the streets lighting the ward lamps; a local who knows where the dark is thickest.

Quests

• The Gloam Mother's Glass (favour)
• Hesper's Wards (favour)
• Corwin's High Lamp (favour)
• Corwin's Route Card (town story)
• Bram's Candles (delivery)
• Hesper's Ward (delivery)
• The Rift Glass (choice)

Jory the peddler turns up in every town Wick reaches, always one town ahead or one behind, full of news from the last one.