Stiltmoor

A town grown under giant mushrooms in a sickly fen: round bark-walled houses wrapped in roots, spotted caps hung with firefly lanterns, murky green pools crossed by boardwalks, and a well gone poison-green. The Mirewife poisoned the wells and sells the cure.

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

• Healer Briony: Brews the real cure for the poisoned wells in secret; gives a clue quest.
• Marl, keeper of the Sunk Kettle: Runs the inn under the rust cap; boils every drop twice.
• Pell the cure-seller: Sells the Mirewife's cure by the bottle, and does not ask what is in it.
• Dunny the eel-catcher: A local who wades the pools for eels and knows every sunk thing in the fen.

Quests

• Briony's Moonwort (favour)
• Dunny's Eel Lamps (favour)
• Pell's Herb Bed (favour)
• Dunny's Flood Post (town story)
• Dabb's Salt (delivery)
• Hasna's Pepper (delivery)
• Briony's Cure (delivery)
• The Glowing Cap (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.