Villagers
Aerig:
Aerig: (m, child) A precocious four-year-old who’s imprinted on Stella like a duckling. Follows her around and asks a million questions.
Angrad: (f, elder) A clever but irritable old woman. She never got over her husband dying several years ago, and doesn't get along with her adult children.
- Mother of Gwann and Tomo
- Widow of Rusa (deceased)
- Grandmother of Betta and Fio
Auvan: (m, mature) He used to travel, but came back and started running the public house after his joints started bothering him. Tells great stories of his adventures. Does most of the trading with outsiders.
- Adopted father of Nia
- Adopted grandfather of Aerig
Belia Heliorsdottir: (f, elder, deceased) The former Lightbearer, who died of natural causes the year before Stella was born.
Betta: (f, young) Lovely young woman. All the lads of the village compete for her attention. She’s sheltered and naïve, but seems to have inherited her father’s kind personality.
- Daughter of Daffa and Gwann
- Granddaughter of Angrad and Rusa
Cayu: (m, child) Wickla's ten-year-old son. Slowly becoming accepted by the other children his age, but still isn’t quite fitting in.
- Son of Wickla
Honoured Cutha: (m, mature) Priest of Tor the Rain-Maker, the patron god of Stonetop. Highly respected by all of the townsfolk, and jealous of anything that smells of a threat to his authority or respect.
- Brother of Rusa (deceased)
Daffa: (m, adult) Gwann's hen-pecked husband. Good farmer, hard worker, can't do anything right as far as his wife is concerned. Everyone in town feels kind of sorry for him.
- Husband of Gwann
- Father of Betta
Dayed: (m, adult) Farmer, talented brewer, single father; his wife died of disease several years ago. He can't control his children and doesn't even know where to start.
- Father of Rhan and Shan
Honoured Dove: (f, adult) The priestess of Danu.
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Eliam: (m, adult) Strongest man in town, gentle, quiet, whittles lovely sculptures. Enjoys woodworking and carpentry, but opposes felling trees in the Great Wood.
- Son of Helva and ???
Emmer: (m, adult) This logger and farmer is a real Gaston type: strong, arrogant, wants everyone to look up to him. He's agitating to start felling the trees of the Great Wood so that he doesn't have to schlep to the Foothills and back every year for timber.
- Grandson of Murdoch
Fio: (f, young) This young woman is proud of being the best hunter in the village. She’s very competitive, driven, and serious. Doesn’t get along with her parents.
- Daughter of Tomo and ???
- Granddaughter of Angrad and Rusa
Mad Gethin: (m, elder) An old man, former hunter, whose mind hasn't been quite right ever since he came back from a hunt a decade ago. He’s harmless and good-natured, so people help him out and put up with his spells of confusion and madness.
- No living relatives?
Gwann: (f, adult) This arrogant, gossipy middle-aged woman is a spectacular weaver. She stirs up trouble and coddles her daughter too much.
- Daughter of Angrad
- Sister of Tomo
- Wife of Daffa
- Mother of Betta
Helva: (f, mature) The village blacksmith is a large woman of few words. She’s shy, uncomfortable in groups of people, and will occasionally clobber people who get on her nerves when she’s had a few too many.
- Mother of Eliam
- Mentor of Wickla
Murdoch: (m, elder) A bad-tempered old village elder, a skilled hunter in his younger days. Rua drunkenly accused him of complicity in his parents’ death at the last Midwinter Festival, and he’s been stewing about it ever since.
- Grandfather of Emmer
Nia: (f, adult) Adopted by Auvan after her parents died in a disease outbreak over a decade ago. She’s been learning healing and herb lore from Dove.
- Adopted daughter of Auvan
- Wife of Waldo
- Mother of Aerig
Rhan and Shan: (f, m, children) A pair of thirteen-year-old terrors. Fraternal twins. Unofficial leaders of the pack of village children.
- Daughter and son, respectively, of Dayed
Rusa: (m, elder, deceased) Held the unofficial position of captain of Stonetop’s militia for many years. He was well-respected and well-liked. The militia has become increasingly disorganized and sloppy since he passed away several years ago.
- Father of Weann and Tomo
- Husband of Angrad
- Grandfather of Betta and Fio
Tesmi: (f, mature) A busybody widow who never seems to stop talking. She’s a fantastic baker, and her honey rolls are highly prized by everyone in Stonetop. She’s taken a shine to Stella, and frequently bothers her for blessings and prayers about trivial things.
Judge Tomas: (m, mature, deceased) Esme’s predecessor and mentor as Judge. [Esme, how did he die?]
Tomo: (m, adult) A middle-aged man who’s a bit too full of himself and loves to take charge. He drinks a bit too much, and knows that everyone thinks he can’t live up to his father's reputation.
- Son of Angrad and Rusa (deceased)
- Brother of Gwann
- Husband of ???
- Father of Fio
Waldo: (m, adult) The laziest man in town, and possibly the laziest man alive. Often volunteers for shifts in the watchtowers so he can get some sleep up there.
- Husband of Nia
- Father of Aerig
Wickla: (f, adult) She’s a refugee who moved here with her son from Gordin's Delve three years ago. The town decided to let her fix up an abandoned house and stay after she demonstrated her skill with tinsmithing and whitesmithing. There’s not much call for that, though, so she's now the apprentice to the town blacksmith.
Angrad
- Mother of Cayu
- Apprentice of Helva