- Brelish culture avoids the fey, preferring practicality over superstition or ancient pacts.
- Aundairians often deal with the fey, but Brelish settlers tend to ignore signs, omens, and fey domains.
- Briar is a young, nonbinary elf and Greensinger druid from the Eldeen Reaches, acting as a guide between mortals and the fey.
- They travel across the frontier, visiting towns and villages as both ambassador and wanderer.
- Briar is first and foremost an entertainer, always ready with a story or song to delight locals.
- They eagerly collect new stories, believing that tales act as “maps” to understand which fey influence a region.
- Briar mediates disputes between settlers and fey, often resolving problems the settlers don’t even realize they’ve caused.
- They perform favours for both archfey and mortals, claiming their only goal is to help stories end well.
- Some settlers distrust Briar, suspecting fey mischief, but most welcome them warmly.
- Children adore Briar, always begging for a story.
- As a Greensinger druid, Briar is a skilled shapeshifter — any animal on the frontier might secretly be them.
- They offer advice and fey‑related help, but may ask for a story or a favor in return, sometimes leading to unusual adventures.
Rumors About Briar
- Briar was taken to Thelanis as a child, raised by the archfey Fortune’s Fool — and strange luck follows them everywhere.
- They can take humanoid forms, not just animals.
- Briar knows a reality‑shaping song, powerful as a Wish — but singing it would cost them their life.
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