Nia
A child who watches things the adults have long since learned not to see.
She watches the animals more attentively than the adults. Nia is a village child whose stillness unsettles grown-ups in ways they can't quite name — and whose attention is on something only she can perceive.
Her instinct is to follow something only she can perceive. She's found in a collapsed house on the edge of town with chalk drawings of spiders on the walls and an altar of sticks, fur, and web shaped like a great spider. A walking mystery and potential hook into Forest Folk and Great Wood storylines — handle carefully so she feels like a child, not a plot device.
Moves
- Say something about the Wood that she could not possibly know
- Lead someone to a place or thing that turns out to be relevant
- Respond to the Forest Folk's presence in ways that other children don't
Appearance: A small, slight village girl in homespun wool, unusually still, with a steady unblinking gaze and hair gone untidy. Pale and quiet, her fingers marked with chalk dust, her attention fixed somewhere past the viewer.
Instinct: To follow something only she can perceive
GM notes
A walking mystery and potential hook into Forest Folk and Great Wood storylines. Handle carefully — she should feel like a child, not a plot device.
This work includes material from Stonetop by Jeremy Strandberg, published by Lampblack & Brimstone, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.