The Gardener

The Gardener sits alone in the middle of a beautiful clearing about halfway up the Forgotten Mountain. It is orbited by over a dozen small stones that it uses to tend to the garden around it. Pulling weeds, plucking dead petals, irrigating the soil, and other various tasks. It can also use them to defend against anyone who would dare harm a single flower. No one knows why the Gardener is there, why it’s that particular clearing, or how long it has been there. But the Gardener of Titania has seen millennia pass on that mountainside. Placed there for an unknowable reason. Destined to tend that garden for the rest of eternity.

 In Story

## The Gardener of Titania

### A Raven and the Gardener

After making a deal with The Broker, Raven Crankshaft goes from Crankshaft to a nearby garden tended by the what she assumes is an automaton. She uses a key to immobilize and return with it to her mines. She manages to get the Gardener to not only power her drones but use them to mine. Unfortunately, her drones turn on the other miners. Crankshaft mines puts out a bounty for aid which is answered by the Reaper and the Wanderer in White. They reach the control mechanism and are surprised to see that it is not a box or panel but **a floating orb**. It's beach ball-sized it appears to be made of hundreds of intertwining bands of metal. On top is a solid disk with a hole in it and orbiting it are chunks of raw iron. As the iron orbits, piece by piece they are purified into plates that are also orbiting the orb. After scuffling with the drones, they realize what they thought was Raven's creation was in fact a sentient being. Our adventurers confront Raven about this and convince both it and her to return to the garden, In the garden, our adventurers learn its name is the Gardener of Titania from where it is written in NightSpeak (Sylvan) on its body. They in turn encourage Raven to apologize to him for her unwitting slight. Raven apologizes in Sylvan but it translates as "I have an obligation." The Gardener accepts the debt and continues his work. Our adventurers nickname him Quartz. Seline, Talia, and Raven leave but not before Seline has quick quiet conversation with Raven.

### Trouble in Crankshaft Part 1

Seline and Talia stop at the Garden of Titania on the way to Crankshaft to deal with alleged orc raids. They speak to Quartz, who says that the Duke of Dusk comes and goes but knows not to interfere. About the trees with the blue leaves, Quartz says the garden is getting closer to home. After a brief conversation with the Broker in the feywild, Talia proposes to Seline. They asked the Gardener of Titania if he had the authority to marry them. To which Quartz replies, “I am a gardener.” The Warden arrives and marries Seline and Talia.

### Battle of Crankshaft Part 5

After confronting the 42nd/Venassi who staging orc raids to influence voting in Crankshaft, Talia Argent-Grey visits Raven at home. While there, Death's Whisper calls on her for her first task. Talia helps Raven's father Blitzen crossover to the afterlife and tries to comfort a grieving Raven. Afterward she retreats to the Garden of Titania, where she deals with her own feelings with the situation and Death's Whisper. She is joined there by her wife Seline and they work through it together. While in the garden, Seline feels the feywilds energy permeating Titania's Garden. After a little while they returned to Crankshaft.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* A Raven and the Gardener (part 3, 4, 5)
* Trouble in Crankshaft Part 1
* Battle of Crankshaft Part 5, *Transcipt*