Duncton Tales: Chapter Notes

Here you will find summaries of each chapter, pieced together carefully. Please do update as this will be heavily used as a reference for the Wiki.

## Part One: A Pilgrim in Winter

### Chapter 1

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Fieldfare -- **M:** Chater

### Chapter 2

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Fieldfare -- **M:** Chater, Thripp, Bracken, Tryfan, Woodruff

### Chapter 3

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Pumpkin, Snyde, Avens, Fieldfare, Chater -- **M:** Stour, Duckett, Husk, Firkin, Sturne

### Chapter 4

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Pumpkin, Stour, Snyde, Fieldfare -- **M:** Firkin, Avens, Drubbins, Sturne, Shire, Wort, Cobbett

### Chapter 5

Characters -- **S:** Stour, Pumpkin, Snyde, Privet -- **M:** Whillan

### Chapter 6

Characters -- **S:** Maple, Privet, Whillan, Snyde, Fieldfare -- **M:** Fieldfare, Stour, Drubbins, Pumpkin, Cobbett, Chater, Husk. Balagan

### Chapter 7

Characters -- **S:** Fieldfare, Pumpkin, Privet, Maple, Drubbins, Whillan, Stour, Avens, Chater -- **M:** Sturne, Husk, Chamfer, Woodruff

## Part Two: Darkness Newborn

### Chapter 8

Characters -- **S:** Stour, Chamfer, Chater, Maple, Fieldfare, Drubbins, Privet -- **M:** Wesley, Spindle, Tryfan, Cuddesdon, Thripp, Fetter

### Chapter 9

Characters -- **S:** Stour, Drubbins, Privet, Fieldfare, Maple, Chater -- **M:** Beechen, Tryfan, Wesley, Thripp, Chervil, Sturne, Rooster, Husk, Whillan

### Chapter 10

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Husk -- **M:** Whillan, Cobbett, Skelton, Berners, Buke, Beatty, Challow, Thripp, Butem, Fieldfare

### Chapter 11

Characters -- **S:** Fieldfare, Bantam, Worthing, Avens, Snyde -- **M:** Privet, Stour, Chater, Maple, Whillan, Drubbins, Husk, Chervil, Thripp, Fetter, Law, Barre, Rooster

* Fieldfare journeys into the Marsh End, finding Bantam there, along with Worthing, Chervil, Fetter, Law and Barre. They speak their rites and worships to the Stone, and Worthing introduced to the Newborns Fetter, Law and Barre. Soon discipline is taking to the sinning moles, Fieldfare one of them, and Bantam orders the others to take her into 'the massing', where others lay dying of hunger and thirst.
* In the massing, she sees Snyde. In delirium and bordering on sub-conscious, Fieldfare sees Snyde taking Bantam's rear, and mating her.

### Chapter 12

Characters -- **S:** Chater, Drubbins, Stour, Whillan, Maple, Fiddler -- **M:** Fieldfare, Pumpkin, Privet, Husk, Rooster, Chervil

* Chater tells everyone that Fieldfare is missing.
* Chater, Maple and Whillan go to Rollright to investigate. There, they find moles running and then, the trio encounter Newborn moles and a massing, like the one held in the Marsh End. Interrupting it, Maple shouldered through the Newborns easily, who dared not touch him.

### Chapter 13

Characters -- **S:** Stour, Husk, Privet, Fieldfare, Bantam, Chater, Maple -- **M:** Cobbett, Pumpkin, Pansy, Balagan, Snyde

### Chapter 14

Characters -- **S:** Stour, Snyde, Sturne, Pumpkin, Whillan, Maple, Fieldfare, Chater, Fiddler, -- **M:** Chervil, Privet, Husk, Drubbins, Thripp, Wesley. Rooster

### Chapter 15

Characters -- **S:** Stour, Fieldfare, Whillan, Chater, Maple, Drubbins, Pumpkin, Husk, Privet -- **M:** Rooster, Balagan, Scirpus, Rune, Dunbar, Beechen

## Part Three: Rooster

### Chapter 16

Characters -- **S:** Wort, Black Ashop, Privet, Stour, Whillan -- **M:** Woodruff, Shire

### Chapter 17

Characters -- **S:** Wort, Sans, Shire, Tarn, Sward, Privet, Whillan, Stour, Fey -- **M:** Black Ashop, Rooster, Hilbert, Lime

### Chapter 18

Characters -- **S:** Shire, Tarn, Privet, Sward, Lime, Fieldfare, Hamble -- **M:** Sans, Fey, Black Ashop

### Chapter 19

Characters -- **S:** Hamble, Privet, Sward, Tarn -- **M:** Tarn, Ratcher, Shire, Rooster, Lime, Wort, Sans

### Chapter 20

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Lime, Shire, Sward, Hamble, Whillan, Fieldfare, Chater, Drubbins -- **M:** Tarn, Wort, Ratcher, Rooster, Samphire

### Chapter 21

Characters -- **S:** Sward, Turrell, Privet, Hamble, Samphire, Ratcher, Myrtle -- **M:** Privet, Hamble, Sward, Rooster, Shire, Tarn, Black Ashop

* Places: Crowden, the Moors, Chieveley Dale, Crowden Vale, Beechenhill, Duncton Wood, Pikenaze Moor, Withens Moor, Twizle Head Moss, Ramsden Clough, Withens Edge, Charnel Clough, the Reap, the Charnel, the Reapside, the Span, the Creeds

### Chapter 22

Characters -- **S:** Hamble, Privet, Sward, Turrell, Glee -- **M:** Rooster, Samphire, Ratcher, Humlock, Sedum

* Places: Withens Moor, Twizle Head, Chieveley Dale, the Moors, Crowden, Charnel, the Tops, the Span, the Reapside

### Chapter 23

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Sward, Hamble, Sedum, Drumlin, Samphire, Glee -- **M:** Ratcher, Rooster, Turrell, Humlock, Hilbert

* Places: The Tops, the Charnel, Chieveley Dale, Crowden, Hilbert's Top, the Reapside, the Reap, the three Creeds, the Span

### Chapter 24

Characters -- **S:** Sward, Privet, Hamble, Drumlin, Samphire, Sedum, Glee, Rooster, -- **M:** Hilbert, Humlock, Ratcher, Scirpus

* Places: Chieveley, Crowden, the Dale, Hilbert's Top, the Charnel

### Chapter 25

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Rooster -- **M:** Hamble, Sward, Wort, Samphire, Drumlin, Sedum

* Places: The Moors, Hilbert's Top, Chieveley Dale, Whern, Crowden

### Chapter 26

Characters -- **S:** Rooster, Samphire, Glee, Gaunt, Drumlin, None, Hume, Prime -- **M:** Sedum, Humlock, Ratcher, Privet, Hume, Terce, Sext, Compline

### Chapter 27

Characters -- **S:** Privet, Whillan, Fieldfare, Stour, Drubbins, Rooster -- **M:** Chater, Hamble, Wort, Sward, Glee, Humlock

* Places: Hilbert's Top, Duncton Wood, the Moors, the Charnel, Crowden

### Chapter 28

Characters -- **S:** Gaunt, Rooster, Glee, Hume, Prime, Samphire -- **M:** Drumlin, Ratcher, Humlock, None, Compline, Hilbert, Terce

### Chapter 29

Characters -- **S:** Glee, Rooster, Gaunt, Samphire, Compline, Hume -- **M:** Rooster, Prime, Gaunt, Glee, None, Humlock, Compline, Terce, Sext, Compline, Hume, Drumlin, Ratcher, Sedum, Hilbert

### Chapter 31

Characters -- **S:** Ratcher, Grear, Samphire, Rooster, Hume, Privet, Fieldfare, Maple, Chater, Stour -- **M:** Gaunt, Glee, Humlock, Prime, Terce, None, Sext, Compline, Hamble, Sward, Wort, Whillan, Pumpkin, Husk, Drubbins

## Part Four: The Sound of Silence

### Chapter 32

Characters -- **S:** Whillan, Chater, Privet, Husk, Stour, Maple -- **M:** Pumpkin, Fieldfare, Drubbins, Bracken, Rebecca

### Chapter 33

Characters -- **S:** Fieldfare, Pumpkin, Bantam, Chater, Privet, Whillan -- **M:** Maple, Husk

### Chapter 34

Characters -- **S:** Sturne, Privet, Stour, Chater, Whillan, Maple, Fieldfare, Chervil -- **M:** Pumpkin, Snyde, Drubbins, Maple, Boswell, Rooster, Mistle, Thripp, Tryfan