The System
23 entries in the Kettle & Crown compendium.
The Kettle & CrownBram's inn at Hollowmere, bigger inside than out, anchors his domain skills and expands to encompass the…BramThe gentle innkeeper hiding a century of power, who chose bread over burning.PipBram's orphan apprentice who grows from kitchen-hand to Keeper of the light.The DeathlessThe vanished sorcerer-king who conquered Veil, spared the Vaunt, and hides as Bram.MarenThe ancient woman who knew Bram before the crown and damned him with an oath.Dame Cressa ThorneThe sole surviving Vaunt champion, aged and hollow, seeking rest over vengeance.SableThe blunt, kind blacksmith widow who serves as Hollowmere's unyielding spine.SenaA century-old relic hunter turned Hollowmere grave-tender, seeking vengeance but finding family.YsoldA faded harvest goddess who traded her hunger for kinship after staying at the inn.Baron CorvaneThe Iron Baron hunts Deathless rumors, builds Karsmoor, and is unmade by peace.Lord Aldric FennCorvane's smooth envoy who wages a cozy siege of manners, only to be out-hosted by Bram.The Reckoner HeskSceld's inquisitor who proved the Deathless lives, rode north with proof, and left changed but unturned.Old HallaThe last survivor of Hollowmere who returned at eighty-four to root Hearthbound in the valley.Sergeant Halvard VaneLoyal under-officer who tracked the crown for a century before dying at peace.CollFrom deserter guardian to carpenter, Coll grows into a road-shepherd and settled householder.NettleThe fierce eldest orphan who became a vital smith and held the town's forge through winter.SceldThe cold high god of last accounting who listens for debts unpaid and amends judgment.The VauntThe Named: Forty champions who forged seeing-glasses and survived the Deathless's mercy.The Order of the LedgerA dwindling inquisitorial order serving Sceld, proving debts for divine collection without raising a hand.IvetHidden hunter and herb-woman who confirmed Hollowmere's domain, summoning Hesk.AnselVane's old comrade, the last bannerman who brought the broken crown to Hollowmere.BishopThe Kettle & Crown's sole grey cat who chose warmth over bargaining.The RemnantLoyal soldiers of the old Iron Host who kept faith with a dead king for a century.
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