Kilnhold

Forced to feed the Ashen Magister's forge with their own homes: adobe and brick with clay-tile roofs half stripped to the rafters, ash falling, embers glowing in the cracks; Brannoch hammers at his forge.

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

• Haska the innkeeper: Keeps the inn while it still has a roof; the Magister takes a brick a week.
• Ama the baker: Bakes bread on the slag; the best crust in the kingdom.
• Old Tib: An old kiln hand with burn-scarred arms, too stiff now for the bellows.
• Brannoch the smith: Kilnhold, Ember Reach (fire). Forges for the Ashen Magister to keep his family alive.

Quests

• The Charcoal-Burner's Prayer (town story)
• Brannoch's First Hammer (town story)
• The Slag Glass (choice)
• Brannoch's Bellows (favour)
• Ama's Oven (favour)
• Old Tib's Goats (favour)

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