The Rooted Witness
Care for imperfect living memory
The faith resists both treating trees as objects and pretending they are omniscient judges. A memorial can remember the wrong coat color and still show that a child was carried through a gate. Its present challenge is a grove speaking with a living woman’s voice: protection of the witness must coexist with respect for the woman herself.
Local households adapt the rites to their work. Affiliation does not determine a character’s politics or make every practitioner virtuous.
House Morn derives authority from keeping nursery trees for settlements the cold has erased.
A rescue promise visible from the water
Hospitality without a ledger
Stewardship of winters that cannot be abolished
A root-bound chamber at the heart of Alceria’s disputed history.
Aranestel’s combined escort and rescue fleet, divided over its own history.