Hearthwane · hill giant, 412
Was hired by the first Toll Lord to ring the bell when travellers came up the stair.
FROM
the Saltspine, the cliff stair above Kestrel Road
HOW THEY LOOK
Three times a man's height, red beard full of gravel, a toll bell the size of a cart wheel hung at his belt.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Sorry, sorry. Quiet voice. QUIET VOICE. Sorry, gravel.”
“One coin, and your name. The name's the part I keep.”
BEFORE THE TALE
400 years ago · the cliff stair
Was hired by the first Toll Lord to ring the bell when travellers came up the stair. The Toll Lord died; the job did not.
300 years ago · Kestrel Road
Watched the Ysmeri light the lamps on the stair, and has forgotten why. He keeps them lit anyway.
100 years ago · the cliff stair
Started carving the name of everyone who crossed into the rock face, because people stopped staying to talk.
a year ago · the rock face
Found three names scraped off the rock overnight, with ash in the grooves. He does not know whose they were.
SEEN IN
No playable tale features them yet.