The Weaver

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An ancient being who dwells in a lonely cottage deep in the woods, weaving fate into cloth and guarding a piece of the Dread Trove with a patience older than the courts.

Also known as: The Weaver, the old woman of the woods, the spinner of threads, the guardian of the Harp, the bone-eyed crone, the keeper of the loom

What They Know

• She knows the exact location of the Harp, one of the three objects of the Dread Trove, and has kept it hidden for millennia.
• She remembers the Making of the Dread Trove by the Cauldron and the ancient war that followed its creation.
• She can see the threads of fate — past, present, and future — woven into her tapestries, though she rarely speaks of what she sees.
• She knows the true names of the Bone Carver and the Suriel, and the bargains that bind them.
• She understands the nature of the mating bond better than any living High Fae, for she has woven the threads of countless such bonds.
• She knows that the King of Hybern seeks the Dread Trove, and that he will come for the Harp eventually.
• She has watched the rise and fall of every court, every High Lord, every war — and she has never once intervened.
• She knows that the Cauldron is not a thing to be controlled, but a force that can be appeased or angered, and that its wrath is older than the mountains.

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