The Grey Camp

A small camp of travellers at the edge of everything: tents, a fire and a town torch past the seal of ten. A trader, a scout, a dowser, a painter, a lookout and an old wanderer have all come to see the grey.

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

• Maudry the trader: A trader who follows travellers to the edge of everything and sells them what they forgot.
• Sefa the glass-walker: A scout who marks safe ways across the glass fields with lanterns; gives a quest.
• Ness the dowser: Finds water in the grey with a hazel twig.
• Quill the painter: Came to paint the grey; finds forty colours in it.
• Hob the lookout: Walks a round of the camp every night with a lantern, counting the tents.
• Old Tarrant, a traveller: An old wanderer resting by the fire, who walked here to see the grey for himself.

Quests

• Sefa's Lanterns (favour)
• Sefa's Brother (town story)
• Old Tarrant's Red Scarf (town story)
• Maudry's Colour Ledger (town story)
• Old Tarrant's Journal (town story)
• Liesl's Chart (delivery)
• Quill's Colours (delivery)
• Hob's Far Cairn (favour)
• The Hue Crystal (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.