Tal Alon

* Tal gathering
* Lama

The Tal Alon appear in many stories and books. They end up playing a very important role in the success of Sevendor.

## Appearance and Characterizations.

> The River Folk are typically smaller than gurvani, with few reaching four feet tall and most adults being around three feet to three and a half, the females being a few inches shorter. What they lacked in height they more than made up for in girth, however: River Folk are fat. That’s not exactly fair – River Folk are built differently than humans, and their proportions do not match ours in several ways. Because of this, a healthy adult looks to human eyes to be scandalously overweight, if he were human. They have proportionately wider hips and narrower shoulders, their hands and feet look larger than they should be, attached to stubby little arms and legs. And their heads are half again as large for their shoulders as a human’s. Add to that their actual fat – and the River Folk can pack it on, a defense against lean times – and their course, fluffy coat of brown fur, and the over-all effect is a kind of enormously obese rodent who happens to enjoy eating and getting drunk and smoking and carousing more than life itself.
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> If they bred faster than goblins, they were also longer-lived than the gurvani. Instead of a mere forty years before dotage, they could go twice that or more.
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### Notable Tal and Burrows

* Daisy - Housemaid to Minalan and Alya
* White Onion and Loblolly burrows join together at Olmeg's invitation to become the Holly Burrow, and the first Tal Alon settlers in Sevendor.
* Rosehips clan - The specialty of the Rosehips clan is their nose for mushrooms, though some of their members worked as flower gardeners in the upper Riverlands where they were eventually driven off as fleeing peasants from Gilmore took their jobs.

## Summary

### Magelord

Olmeg with Minalan's permission, invites the Tel Alon to settle in Sevendor and help to make it prosper. They settle in what was originally "Farant’s Hold" a shady, marshy area at the base of "Matten’s Helm". Once Olmeg becomes the Yeoman of the Hold, it is renamed to Hollyburrow in honor of the Tal's settlement.

### Enchanter

When Alya is attacked by Lady Mask, Daisy, lets starts Keening and all of the Tal within the area run to her aid while in a ferocious trance state, Minalan notes that they are entrained the same way that the Alka Alon are when they are working together.

### Wizards of Sevendor

The Rosehips clan, specializing in mushrooms and gardening join the cast and eventually settle in Lorcus's domain of "Amel Wood" in the Barony of Sevendor.

## New Tal Alon Vale

From Arcanist Map 1

When Minalan invokes Falassa and ask for her help, she requires him to set aside some land in the Magelaw that will be just for the Tal Alon, so that they can learn to manage their own afairs and develope a society of their own.

Minalan agrees on a Vale beyond old Chilver domain and ruines near the Dain River.

## References

1. ↑ “Victory Soup” A Spellmonger Short Story  - Mancour, Terry. The Road To Sevendor: A Spellmonger Anthology (The Spellmonger Series) . Unknown. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Mancour, Terry. The Wizards of Sevendor: An Anthology (The Spellmonger Series) (p. 30).  *The Incident at Ramoth’s Wood* Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Enchanter: Book Seven Of The Spellmonger Series (ch. 36). Kindle Edition.