Field

**Field** is a Seelie dryad selling goods at Many Meadows market, who briefly talks and flirts with Eran Iliakambar during the ice plague.

## Appearance

She 'had thin willow branches and leaves growing all out of her head'. The second time Eran meets her, she has a white flower tucked into her hair.

## Personality

She is sweet-tempered. She feels sad for the Unseelie fae who are trapped in the fae realm but need to go to the human realm to hunt.

## Life

Field is a dryad who sells sap at the Many Meadows market at her own table.

After escaping the Miskatin, Eran and Mosk Manytrees wander and come across a market in Many Meadows. While Eran is looking for sap for Mosk at the market, Eran speaks to, and flirts with Field, who advises him on how to tap and treat sap for dryads to eat. She also talks about the local gossip and actions of the local Unseelie fae who keep tolls, and advises him to go to Yuvi Milkbone, rather than Notch, for help.

She also discusses the rumors that no one can teleport, but brushes them aside. She thinks the whole thing is an attack on the Unseelie. 'Or at least the Unseelie that feed on humans. We’d never need crossover to the human realm again if the Unseelie who fed on them all died.'

She speaks with Eran again the next day, when he returns to the market. She is 'happy to see him again, and tucked a yellow flower from a vase of wildflowers into his hair'. She asks about Mosk, and Eran discusses him a little. They flirt some more, though Eran is distracted by how much his thoughts turn to Mosk, instead.

They are interrupted when Gwyn ap Nudd and Augus Each Uisge arrive. Field is terrified of the pair, and shocked that Eran knows them. When Eran goes with them, Field makes a sign of 'some sign of…rebuke? Repudiation? Something else?'

## Relationships

### Eran Iliakambar

Eran enjoys talking and flirting with Field, and finds it a nice break from everything terrible that's happening. Field returns his interest.

## Quotations

* 'the poor Unseelie fae'
* 'Not me, though. Och, I’d burn! With skin like mine? Look how smooth that is, there, I have to take care of that. The desert sun would burn me.'
* 'Hello, Field,’ Eran said. ‘I greet you in warmth and light.’ Field: ‘And I you, in cool places, among green meadows.'

## Trivia

* Eran's flirtation with Field is one of the first times he realized he was falling for Mosk.

## Folklore/Mythology

'A dryad (Greek: Δρυάδες, *sing*.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. *Drys* signifies "oak" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for tree nymphs in general, or human-tree hybrids in fantasy. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.'

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 12 March 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/31845930. Chapter 16: Leave Be.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 16 March 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/32210853. Chapter 17: So It Is.
3. ↑ "Dryad". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad. Accessed 7 May 2021.