Starwatch

A stargazers' hamlet on a mountain top that has come loose from the world: a copper-domed observatory with its telescope out, tall star-slate towers, an orrery turning on the square, blue rune stones, and isles of rock floating over the starry drop.

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

• Ondine the astronomer: Keeps the great telescope and charts every star; gives a clue quest.
• Bertil, keeper of the Lantern House: Keeps the hostel where stargazers sleep through the day.
• Liesl the chartmaker: Draws and sells star charts; Pip thinks she is the greatest person alive.
• Ambrose the orrery-keeper: Winds the orrery on the square every hour; a local who knows the old paths over the drop.

Quests

• Ondine's Lens (favour)
• Ambrose's Orrery (favour)
• Liesl's Great Chart (favour)
• Bertil's Star (town story)
• Hesper's Ward (delivery)
• Liesl's Chart (delivery)
• Quill's Colours (delivery)
• The Star-Stone Chip (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.