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Golden Lance

Rosemerrow

Kanton

*Blades in the Dark*

*Follow*

*Winter in Hieron*

The **Golden Lance** is a group of law enforcers whose roots stretch back to Marielda but whose jurisdiction has come to cover a much broader area. They are known for their magical guns which can disintegrate a target into ashes.

## *Autumn in Hieron*

> "They represent an extraterritorial force of justice, a group that regular law enforcers hate as much as everybody else seems to love."
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The cast of season one's holiday special is deputized by officers of the Golden Lance Victoria Solomon and Dr. Gloria Lake to investigate a murder in Velas on High Sun Day. At the end of the day, Solomon and Lake ask the group to report their findings, and mete out justice accordingly.

## *Marielda*

Aside from the pala-din, in Marielda the Golden Lance is perhaps the most 'official' force keeping order in the city. Each district has its own Lance Noble, and above them all is the Lance Sovereign Marielda. As law enforcers in the interlude season, the Golden Lance frequently come into conflict with The Six, and several Lance Nobles have personal grudges against them on top of that. Marielda's Lance Nobles are typically referred to not by their own name but by the parish which they protect.

### Members

* Lance Sovereign Marielda, a.k.a. Thackeray
* Lance Noble Orchid (deceased)
* Lance Noble Orchid, a.k.a. Rebecca
* Lance Noble Iris
* Lance Noble Quince, a.k.a. Morket Dal
* Lance Noble Chrysanthemum
* Lance Noble Helianthus
* Lance Noble Violet, a.k.a. Claret Holiday
* Sige Coleburn, recruited by Rebecca to the Golden Lance(which parish?) approximately a year after the dissolution of The Six

## *Winter in Hieron*

The Golden Lance return in season three, deputizing the cast again in "The Importance of Names" to investigate a murder in Rosemerrow. This time, however, Solomon and Lake are personally involved in the case—as suspects.

Though they were arrested in connection to the presumed death of Gilbert Lutz because the burn marks at the crime scene suggested that Solomon's gun could have been the murder weapon, the pair had come to Rosemerrow to investigate the Cult of the Dark Sun.

Throndir comes to learn that Solomon and Lake are vampires and that the traveling Golden Lance operating in Hieron are a splinter version of the Marielda organization, formed by Claret Holiday and Lilith R'ion after they fled the city. Having been killed by Arrell, he accepts an offer to return to life as a vampire of the Golden Lance.

 See also

* List of Marielda factions
Calhoun Cleanblade

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**Calhoun Cleanblade** is a wharver mercenary.

## Appearance

Calhoun is tall for a wharver, with a close-cropped beard, a ponytail, and a ruddy complexion. In battle, he skillfully wields a bastard sword, switching between one- and two-handed fighting styles with ease.

## See also

* List of characters in the second Forest Party arc
Baron's Gate

**Baron's Gate** is a village formed around a pre-Erasure fortress on the road between the New Archives and the Mark of the Erasure.

## Appearance

The main feature of Baron's Gate is a wide octagonal tower, eight stories tall, with a firepole in the center for fast descent. Atop the tower is a dome with the symbol of Samothes coming from its apex. Thin arrowslits are placed around the tower's walls.

Surrounding the tower are a number of smaller, post-Erasure shacks and houses.

## History

Though the fortress which distinguishes Baron's Gate from any other village on the roads northeast of Rosemerrow is very old, the settlement itself dates back to some point in the past hundred years.

For a long time, Baron's Gate was the farthest west in Hieron that Ephrim had ever traveled. While moving around during his education, most places changed a lot every time he came back to them, but Baron's Gate was a sort of constant; always a big fortress tower surrounded by huts and tents, and even those were about the same. He has deep nostalgia for the place, and fond memories of a chicken and herb dish he ate there.
Blake Bromley

**Blake Bromley** is a halfling burglar. They were captured by the Water Wardens of Creek Crescent as a suspect in the murder of Gilbert Lutz, but put into protective custody by the Major Crimes Division thanks to the efforts of Adaire.

## Appearance

They are four feet tall and wear a hood. Though small, they try to maintain a diligent schedule of morning aerobics.

## Personality

Like any good thief, Blake is always trying to decide how best to balance risk and reward to their greatest advantage.

They love peppermints.

 See also

* List of characters in the first Mountain Party arc
* List of characters in the Rosemerrow investigation
* List of characters in the second Forest Party arc
Jeremy (undead)

## Jeremy

> *This is about the character from Winter in Hieron. For the character from Marielda, see Jeremy (steward).*
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**Jeremy** is an undead man encountered by the Mountain Party on the road from Rosemerrow to the New Archives.

## Appearance

Jeremy is a dead-eyed human in his early thirties with an average build and strong, though shredded, runner's legs. One of his arms has been torn off between the shoulder and elbow, with the sharp point of exposed bone remaining.

He wears torn pants and a leather jerkin, walks in a slow shamble, and smells of rotting flesh.

## See also

* List of characters in the second Mountain Party arc
Dungeon World

***Dungeon World*** is the primary game used in seasons one and three of *Friends at the Table*. It was created by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel and is based on D. Vincent Baker's *Apocalypse World*. The directives of the game are to "Portray a fantastic world, fill the characters’ lives with adventure, and play to find out what happens."

In *Spring in Hieron*, the players choose to supplement the base Dungeon World game with additional material written by Peter Johansen.

## Basics

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In *Dungeon World*, moves are done by rolling two six-sided dice. A result of 10 or more is a success, a result from 7 to 9 results in a partial success or complication, and on a result of 6 or less the player fails and gains experience, and the GM gets to make a move.

Player characters are unique: although there may be other individuals with similar skills, there is only one Fighter, Paladin, Druid, Bard, Wizard, Ranger, Thief, or Immolator in the world of the game.

Each player has a set of bonds, short statements describing their character's relationship with other party members. At the end of each play session, they can choose one bond that has been resolved during play, mark experience, and replace it with a new bond, whether with the same person or someone else. A player's number of bonds with another character is used as their modifier whenever they role to Aid or Interfere with an action done by the other player.

## Principles

In addition to its three basic directives, *Dungeon World* offers a number of principles to guide GMs.

* Draw maps, leave blanks
* Address the characters, not the players
* Embrace the fantastic
* Make a move that follows
* Never speak the name of your move
* Give every monster life
* Name every person
* Ask questions and use the answers
* Be a fan of the characters
* Think dangerous
* Begin and end with the fiction
* Think offscreen, too

## External links

* *Dungeon World* on Wikipedia
* Official site
* Peter Johansen's collected *Dungeon World* material on Google+
Mrs. Manufactory

**Mrs. Manufactory** was a leader of The Yellow House encountered by The Six during The Valentine Affair. She was killed by Carolyn Fair-Play.

## Appearance

She is a woman with an older, weathered face and light skin. At a glance, Hitchcock could tell she was a dancer and duelist like himself, but by social class rather than trade. She wore a slightly floofy muted pink dress over a white blouse and had yellow eyes.
Autumn in Hieron 18: Magic (Or Something) Is All Around Us

## Episode Description

*"Fantasmo (Nick), Throndir (Andrew), and Hadrian (Art) finally arrive at the center of erasure. If you can overlook the strange figures moving in the distance, the imposing size of the tower, and the brutal weight of history, it's actually pretty nice!"*

 Cast

* Austin Walker (GM)
* Art Tebbel (Hadrian)
* Andrew Lee Swan (Throndir)
* Nick Scratch (Fantasmo)
Elan Showman

**Elan Showman** (ay-lon shuh-mon) is the operator & director of Westshore-upon-Scene, a theatre and acting school in the Rosemerrow municipality of Westshore-upon-Sea.

He is affiliated with the Cult of the Dark Sun, which has a secret temple within Westshore-upon-Scene.

## See also

* List of characters in the Rosemerrow investigation
Elgash Or

**Elgash Or** is an archivist who has been assigned to the New Archives' branches in Velas and Rosemerrow. He has done some research into the treaties that allow the Golden Lance to operate in Rosemerrow.

Following the events of "I've Killed Monsters", Elgash came into possession of the Book of Life, which he sent on to the Archives before his death, apparently at the hands of Arrell.

 See also

* List of characters in the *Autumn in Hieron* Holiday Special
* List of characters in the Rosemerrow investigation
Boat Party

Art by @Six\_of\_Wands

Fero Feritas

Ordenna

Nacre

Keith J Carberry

> *This article is about the group. For the episode, see "Boat Party?"*
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**Boat Party** is the nickname given to the group of Hella, Lem, and Fero in *Autumn in Hieron*, as well as the nautical bacchanal that the group engages on at one point.

## Adventure

Following the events on Eventide Island, the three are hired in a Velas pub by Gregalos to go south and investigate another pre-Erasure tower near Rosemerrow. With Morbash encroaching to capture Lem, the three decide to enlist the very sloshed Captain Calhoun to help them leave the city by boat, by means of embarking on a drunken Boat Party. However, as the group sails south towards Rosemerrow, they are waylaid by the *Kingdom Come*, piloted by the now-undead Captain Brandish, who Hella fought once before.

Casualties are high on both sides, before Hella decides to take Brandish's offer of giving up Calhoun in exchange for an end to the fighting. The group then deviates from their original quest to track Brandish down and rescue Calhoun. They make their way to Brandish's flourishing home city of Nacre, the land ruled by the line of Tristero, god of death. Lem is astounded by the things he sees and tries to strike up a friendship with Emmanuel, who he recognizes from Brandish's crew. Eventually, the outsiders are recognized and a fight breaks out, during which Hella is grievously injured. On death's door, she encounters Tristero himself, who brings her back to life on the condition that he must kill Captain Calhoun, whose real name is Angelo Tristé.

The three are brought into an amicable but threatening custody. Fero visits the zoo and studies the essence of the panther, a mystical local bird. They learn that Angelo is to be put on trial for the murder of his father Tristero. Upon visiting Angelo, Hella tearfully strangles him, killing him three times in a row as he passes from life to undeath to a ghostly form before dying. As a result, Hella is put on trial instead, with Fero taking her defense while Lem is forced to act as prosecutor.

Meanwhile, Fero has noticed Ordennan warships gathering on the horizon, and warn the public of this during the trial. Hella is found innocent but Lem is found in contempt of court for failing to provide a sufficient case, and condemned to stay in Nacre and work off his sin. As the city begins to be bombarded, Lem escapes and has an emotional meeting with Emmanuel at his bakery. Hella kills Adelaide Tristé with her sword. The three escape the city and return to Velas.

## Members

* Hella Varal (Ali Acampora)
* Lem King (Jack de Quidt)
* Fero Feritas (Keith J Carberry)

## Episodes

1. "What's a Good Name For A Ship?"
2. "Boat Party?"
3. "I'm Not Happy With This Decision At All"
4. "Like Sneaky Little Sneaks"
5. "What A Surprise"
6. "Have You Ever Swung A Sword At A Ghost Before?"
7. "As Death's Eyes Look Over the World"
8. "Violence Mulligan Mulligan"
9. "The Storm Over Tristero"
10. "Spinning Straw Out of Gold"
11. "Work Off Your Sins"
12. "The Shores of Ordenna"

## See also

* List of characters in the Boat Party arc
Chancellor of Rosemerrow

The **Chancellor of Rosemerrow** is the head of Rosemerrow's central government. The most recent chancellor was Gilbert Lutz.

## Election

Chancellor is an elected position; additionally, either by tradition or law, a chancellor must have the names (and, by extension, approval) of 15 families from the city.

## High House

The Chancellor's High House is located in the center of Roseheart, and is the tallest of the district's famous High Houses. It is the home of the chancellor, who lives with their immediate family as well as representatives from each of the families whose names they have been given. These representatives are there both to vouch for the Chancellor and to ensure their interests are kept in mind.

## Low House

The Low House is the offices that the chancellor's administration operates from, located underground beneath the High House.
Anchor

The **Anchor** are a force of statue-like mechanical soldiers made of Ordennan steel. Their design was based on a group of pala-din that the Ordennans found in a room on Eventide Island.

They appear to be powered by some sort of combustion, releasing smoke and sometimes exploding when defeated. Not all Anchor are identical; their designs appear to vary based upon their craftsperson or some other variable.

The Anchor cannot act independently, but must follow orders from someone with authority. Ordennan officers may possess a small steel tag that allows them to control the Anchor for a given purpose. Use of the tag requires a 'sacrifice' that inflicts pain upon the user; doing so, Hella was able to take possession of such a tag and turn the Anchor back onto the Ordennnans. With difficulty, Hadrian was able to use the strength of Samothes to control a single soldier without possession of such a tag.
Deities of Hieron

**Deities of Hieron** are various beings of great power who shape and alter the world in which the inhabitants of Hieron live.

## Powers

The gods of Hieron were once distinguished by the divine authority with which they could rewrite history and undo events, but this ability was taken from them after the death of Samothes. Still, they remain ageless and possess powers difficult for mortals to comprehend.

## Pantheon

The Pantheon, also known as the Old Five, is a group of major gods of Hieron, who have long been subjects of worship and veneration among various cultures across the continent.

* Samol
* Samothes
* Severea, also called Samonta
* Galenica, also called Samaantine
* Samot

## Other gods

* Tristero and his children (Angelo, Adelaide)
* Maelgwyn
* Kindrali
* Orc gods
Autumn in Hieron 15: Have You Ever Swung A Sword At A Ghost Before?

## Episode description

*"Hella (Ali) tests the sharpness of her magic sword, Lem (Jack) tests the limits of a new friendship, Fero (Keith) tests the hardness of the floor, and Austin tests his ability to do a British voice."*

 Cast

* Austin Walker (GM)
* Ali Acampora (Hella Varal)
* Jack de Quidt (Lem King)
* Keith Carberry (Fero Feritas)
Chatterchin

**Chatterchin** is a gnoll emissary in Rosemerrow who wants to pressure the halflings into giving the gnolls their possessions back. He is smaller than most other gnolls and wears Velasian-style clothes.

## See also

* List of characters in the first Mountain Party arc
* List of characters in the Rosemerrow investigation
Eclipse

Partway through *Winter in Hieron*, an extended **eclipse** takes place in which the sun is blocked by Del and Bri, the two moons of the skies over Hieron. Much like the wintry weather from the *Autumn in Hieron* Holiday Special, what started as a freak occurrence continues with no end in sight.

The Forest Party witnesses the start of the eclipse during their initial confrontation in Old Man's Chin with the Ordennans, while the Mountain Party is inside Rosemerrow's Old Museum at the time, and emerges to see that the sky is dark.

The eclipse ends when Ephrim unites the crescent blade and hilt, returning a sun to the sky on Stratum Zero.

## Days

Days seem to run in a 36-hour cycle, which can be broken down into 12-hour sections of normal darkness, dim light, and complete darkness.

It is unclear whether the days of the week are still being used during the eclipse.
Autumn in Hieron 25: Work Off Your Sins

## Episode description

*"The court proceedings continue. Lem leans into conspiracy theory, Fero tries to save his friends by throwing them under the bus, and Hella takes the stand. The crowd reacts. The life of the case comes to a close."*

 Cast

* Austin Walker (GM)
* Ali Acampora (Hella Varal)
* Jack de Quidt (Lem King)
* Keith Carberry (Fero Feritas)
Anther

**Anther** is a moth of Old Man's Chin notable for their drab and undistinguished coloring, which allowed them to stealthily perform nighttime reconnaissance on Ordennan troop movement.

## Appearance

Anther is described as the dullest moth in Old Man's Chin, with a grey puffy collar and clouded wings.

## See also

* List of characters in the first Forest Party arc
Ilikedogs9000

ilikedogs9000(also goes by his real name,Angel) is a daily poster from the splatfaqs community. He is shipped with Mel561.

## Favorite Weapons

-L-3 Nozzlenose

-Kelp Splatterscope

-Heavy Splattling

-Octobrush

-Forge Splattershot Pro

-Rapid Blaster Trio

## Trivia

-Angel's birthday is October 19 2000

-Angel has this gimmick of always having joke options on his polls

-Angel has a slight obsession over being post #69,and does so whenever possible

-As a reward for reading all the way to the bottom of the page,have some eye candy:Angel IRL :3 http://imgur.com/i4X3MhJ
Eventide Island

**Eventide Island**, also known as the **Isle of Eventide**, is an island located in the Isles of Dusk off the northernmost peninsula of Ordenna, explored by the original party of *Autumn in Hieron*. It is home to the Tower of Severea, one of the colossal pre-Erasure towers found throughout Hieron.

The area is warm, even tropical in climate, but although there are picturesque beaches to its south, the island is grey and ashy, surrounded by underwater crags and rocks. Its beach grades up to the cliff plateau of the tower.

There is a small, cozy house on the slope, mostly enclosed by rock.

The tower itself is built of engraved sandstone, windowed, and at least twelve stories high, the size of an outpost rather than a lighthouse. Like the other towers, it was built using the University's living artifacts; in this case, a seafaring, city-building empire from the southern coast of the continent.

There is a boxy building connected to the bottom level, with all its arched entrances covered by stone sheets. The battalion of pala-din is contained within.

## Inhabitants

* Human-faced cormorants
* The skeleton painter
* Pala-din battalion (taken by Ordenna, reverse engineered to create Anchor)
* Rivallo
* Brutus
* Calithane
Captain Calhoun

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## Basics

### Title(s)

Lord Tristan IXThe Missing Boy

The Heir Apparent

Our Brother

The Prince of Pearls

The Emir of Alabaster

The Ivory Crown

The Reluctant

The Betrayer

The Coward

The Wretched

The Abdicator of Hope

## Relationships

### Relations

Tristero (father)Adelaide Tristé (sister)

## Meta Info

### Season

*Autumn in Hieron*

**Captain Calhoun**, born **Angelo Tristé**, was a sailor and the abdicated prince of Nacre.

## History

Angelo, who disagreed with his father Tristero's dream of a world without death, killed his father and fled Nacre, settling in Velas under the assumed name of Captain Calhoun.

Calhoun was assigned the role of expedition leader of the group sent to investigate the Isle of Eventide, though the rest of the group departed to explore the island while he stayed in his ship moored off the island coast.

He would sail again with Lem, Fero and Hella when, one drunken night, they talked him into sailing south on a boat party with the intention of getting to Rosemerrow. However, they were waylaid by Captain Brandish and the undead pirates of the *Kingdom Come*, who eventually talked Hella into handing Calhoun over to put a stop to the fighting.

Calhoun was brought back to Nacre and imprisoned in the Sable Spire but the Boat Party followed, planning to launch a rescue mission. However, before this rescue could be carried out, Hella was killed and came face-to-face with Tristero, who agreed to return her to life on the condition that she kill Calhoun.

Hella followed through on this dark bargain, strangling Calhoun in his cell as he awaited being put on trial for his father's murder. After this, Calhoun took over for his father as god of death within Nacre, a role which he would soon pass on to his sister Adelaide after she too was killed by Hella as the city was sacked by the armies of Ordenna.

## Origin

Calhoun's birth name may be an allusion to Thomas Pynchon's novella *The Crying of Lot 49*, from which the name Tristero also originates. Angelo, the evil Duke of Squamuglia, is a major character in *The Courier's Tragedy*, a convoluted play-within-a-play that also features the shadowy postal service known as the Trystero.

## See also

* List of characters in the Eventide Party arc
* List of characters in the Boat Party arc

## External links

* Making sense of *The Courier's Tragedy* on The Pynchon Wiki
Dream essence

**Dream essence** is an alchemical creation developed by Aubrey to revisit the conversation she saw between Samot and Samothes. A silvery, mercury-like liquid, it is a distillation of a lucid dream, perfectly recreated for the user.

## Use

Delivered orally or by injection, dream essence induces a trance lasting a couple hours, with the length depending on the amount taken. Users remain in a dazed state after emerging from the trance. It can be made from materials easily found in Marielda, including chips of obsidian.

The substance has been kept out of common usage by the risk of dependency, as people may use it to recreate memories of loved ones and end up losing grasp of reality.
Christopher

**Christopher** is a semi-disgraced priest who once held a high position within the Creed of Samothes.

## Appearance

Christopher is an old man with very healthy tanned white skin, a well-groomed white beard, little glasses, and long, wavy, not-quite-shoulder-length hair.

## The Quiet Year

Christopher, who was in his eighties, confessed during the during the Quiet Year to having tutored Samot many years earlier.

He led a five-week long prayer to Samothes for guidance as an act of penance. At the end of the five weeks, those who had come daily for prayers, including Christopher, found that they had gained knowledge of all language.

Christopher later confessed to murdering the alchemist Winsley Cartwright, who had been heavily involved with the creation of Marielda's semiformal learning group in the library, as an act of further penance. While he was put on trial for this murder, the case was thrown out after Snitch Nightly confessed to the same murder and the crime was reinvestigated.

Circumstantial evidence from the second investigation seemed to indicate that Christopher had killed Cartwright, but there was not enough to convict him.

## Later life

Christopher fell into obscurity after the Quiet Year, though his second-most famous student, Rector Sabinia, appears during The Valentine Affair.

During "Four Conversations", he spoke briefly with Castille prior to one of her meetings with Maelgwyn.

## See also

* List of characters in the Quiet Year
* List of characters in The Six's arc
Follow

***Follow*** is a game by Ben Robbins (designer of *Microscope* and *Kingdom*, both of which appear in *Friends at the Table*'s second season, *COUNTER/Weight*) featured in the *Winter in Hieron* Holiday Special. In *Follow*, players tell a story together about a group of characters working together to achieve a goal, organized around a number of different quest archetypes. The *Friends at the Table* group played "The Colony", in which their goal was to build a colony and make it flourish.

## Basics

After deciding on a quest type and setting, the players each choose a major and minor character, with their major character having one want (a thing they desire) and one need (something they need another major character to give them that the other character does not want to give).

The characters work towards their end goal by confronting a series of challenges. Each challenge is played through a number of scenes, at the end of which the characters' feelings on how things are going affects whether they succeed or fail at a challenge. Failure has repercussions, but failing a challenge does not mean that they cannot succeed at the quest.

## External links

* Official site
Hieron: The Months of Autumn

"**Hieron: The Months of Autumn**" is a two-episode recap of *Autumn in Hieron*, the first season of *Friends at the Table*. Released in November 2016 between the end of *Marielda* and the start of *Winter in Hieron*, it features clips from throughout season one as well as new framing narration addressed from Samol to Stornras Glasseye which ties the clips together.

### Boat Party

* Ali Acampora (Hella Varal)
* Jack de Quidt (Lem King)
* Keith J Carberry (Fero Feritas)

### Ice Party

* Art Tebbel (Hadrian)
* Nick Scratch (The Great Fantasmo)
* Andrew Lee Swan (Throndir)
Helianthus Parish

**Helianthus Parish**, also known as **Hell's Parish**, is a district in central Marielda. Its nickname may or may not have the same connotation that it does in the real world.

## History

### The Quiet Year

Sections of Helianthus Parish were once some of the worst parts of Canopy Row, a neighborhood in southwestern Marielda which was historically the slums of the city for being the closest part to the Western Wood. Except for these sections redistricted to Helianthus, most of the Canopy later became Orchid Parish.

Christopher ran a church and hospital here during the Quiet Year.

### Later development

Helianthus is the most populous part of the city and where most of its working class live in dense, overheated tenements, or, in the case of the weavers, rooftop shacks. The Crosstown Express train stretches through the skies above Hell's Parish. Emberboro, the section of the city home to most of its cobbins and a large number of refugees, is officially considered part of Helianthus.

Christopher's hospital is now run by the Hospitaliers du Tristero.

Lance Noble Helianthus, the Golden Lance's officer in the parish, is a former building superintendent.
Bear's head cat

The **bear's head cat** is a seasonal fungus-animal native to central Hieron. It was brought into being as a transformation by Fero after his arrival at the Last University during *Spring in Hieron*.

## Description

Bear's head cats are only present during the rainy season, as they go to spore during the dry season.

They partially resemble cats (approximately the size of a lynx) and partially resemble fungi of the genus *Hericium*, which are edible mushrooms that grow in clusters of long, icicle-like downward spines. "Bear's head" or "Bear's head tooth" are common names for species of Hericium, hence the name of the corresponding fungal cat.

Bear's head cats cannot be domesticated.
List of orc gods

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The orcs of Hieron have a vast, perhaps innumerable, array of gods whose hyper-specific domains are expressed through a system of honorifics. It is ambiguous whether any supernatural abilities or other distinguishing characteristics are associated with being an orc god, or if all it takes to be an orc god is being referred to in this way by someone.

## Notes

1. ↑ Austin confirms that Corsica is an orc goddess, even though she might not be an orc.
2. ↑ Lem was called this by Corsica, probably as a joke.
Nick Scratch

*Winter in Hieron*

*Spring in Hieron* (guest)

**Nick Scratch** is a member of *Friends at the Table* who played as The Great Fantasmo during *Autumn in Hieron* and *Winter in Hieron*, and provided occasional production work during the first season. He left the podcast following the Mountain Party's museum heist, although when Austin announced the departure during "Is There Anyone Else?", he said that Nick might return for guest appearances in the future.

Nick returned for a guest appearance as Fantasmo at the end of *Spring in Hieron 34: The Variation of Natural Life]]* and throughout *Spring in Hieron 36: Terrible and Necessary*.
List of Fero's shapeshift forms

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The following is a list of forms that Fero can take by shapeshifting.

 Giant vole | A large burrowing mammal native to the mountains of northern Hieron, about 5 feet tall and 8 to 9 feet long, not counting its tail. It can dig through stone and has a poisonous bite.
 Sprangaroo | Flying creature that launches itself piston-like into the air and then glides.
 Sea squirrel | Like a squirrel what lives underwater. Eats tide corn.
Lardwulf

**Lardwulf**, who would like to be known as **The Lardwulf**, is a shady fellow in charge of entertainment at The Greasy Snifter.

## Appearance

Lardwulf is exceptionally muscular for a halfling. Like most criminals in Twinbrook, he wears a coat with very wide lapels.

## Personality

Whenever Lardwulf says something is smart, he taps his head three times. If he only taps twice, he is bluffing.

## See also

* List of characters in the first Forest Party arc
Lem's plant

**Lem's plant** is a potted Velasian thyme plant given to Lem King by Morbash. Caring for the plant is one of the tasks Lem has been assigned in order to fix his standing with the New Archives.

## Name

If Morbash gave the plant a name before it changed custody, Lem does not know it, but knowing to respect a given name for the sake of the pattern, Lem has not named it.

## Description

The plant, a variety of thyme that only grows in Velas, was originally one of several being grown in a New Archives greenhouse in the city that collapsed in the High Sun Day blizzard, and is now their only remaining specimen.

When Lem first began taking care of the plant, it had long leaflets and a hemp-like appearance, with slight psychoactive properties. Its appearance has changed over time and it now resembles a small weeping willow.

During the course of Lem's adventures, the plant has been subjected to a number of dangerous situations, most notably when his bag was briefly on fire and when he stored a hilt of some dark magical nature in his bag with it.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/austin\_walker/status/812304736770781184
Ali Acampora

*Winter in Hieron*

*Spring in Hieron*

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**Ali Acampora** is the current producer of *Friends at the Table*, has played the characters of Hella and Castille, and is committed to keeping the show as gay as possible. She also coined the term 'flesh D.Va'.

In addition to *Friends at the Table*, Ali hosts *One Song Only*, a podcast about deciding what the best Kanye West song is, with Art and Austin.

## External links

* One Song Only
Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter

**Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter**, or simply **Cold Winter**, is a game used in season five of *Friends at the Table*. Created by Cecil Howe, it is designed as a minigame or downtime activity within a larger fantasy roleplaying campaign in which players "focus on helping an ill-fated frontier village survive a terrible winter season".

## External links

* Itch.io
* DriveThruRPG
Janine Hawkins

*Spring in Hieron*

Hazel

**Janine Hawkins** is the official *Friends at the Table* mapmaker in and out of Hieron, having made maps for *Seasons of Hieron*and *Marielda* before playing as the cartographer Adaire. She also took part in The Quiet Year and played as the retailers Tisk and Hazel in the *Winter in Hieron* Holiday Special. Her writing can be found at *Paste*, *Gamespot*, *Polygon*, *GiantBomb* and *Waypoint*.
Hedy Braum

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**Hedy Braum** may refer to:

* Hedy Braum is a charismatic young woman from Marielda who disappeared during the first expedition into the forest to the southwest during the Quiet Year.
* Hedy Braum is a weaver who was discovered inside a tree by a later expedition and claimed to be the woman who had disappeared previously.
Memoriam College (Marielda)

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## Memoriam College

Memoriam College floor plan made in Roll20

## Basic Information

### Foes

The SixThe Yellow House

Black Slacks

## Meta Info

### Season

*Marielda*

**The Rector and College of the Last Living Spirits, in Memoriam, For Their Service Awarded the Grace and Wisdom of Our Proctor, Originality Alive**, more commonly known as **Memoriam College**, was a college of the university in Marielda known for its great secrecy and for being the only part of the city not subject to reconfiguration.

## Entry

Memoriam College is closed to outsiders except for one set week each year where there is a series of tests for new students to gain admission, during which the charms protecting the building are disabled. The Six pulled off The Valentine Affair during one of these weeks, after which the school was apparently swallowed into a yawning abyss of nothing.
Ghost

A **ghost** is a spectral remnant of a being that was once alive. This may be a result of an undead being with the curse of Nacre being killed and coming back in its third phase of life. A ghost may also be a spirit left in the world from a time of great calamity, when a massive number of deaths kept Tristero busy.

Lacking physical form, ghosts are difficult to fight off without magical means or weapons of Ordennan steel.
List of Rosemerrow families

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The following is a list of families in Rosemerrow.

A

* Abelton
* Adelbury
* Adelton
* Alexander

B

* Bachman
* Belgrave
* Brayer
* Bromley
* Brubaker
* Byrd

C

* Carolina
* Carver
* Cider-Brew

E

* Elmore

F

* Feritas

G

* Greene

H

* Half-Off
* Henderson

J

* Johansen
* Johnson

L

* Lenova
* Lutz

M

* Maestro
* McGillicuddy
* Merrow

N

* Notherhome

Q

* Quincy
* Quinton

S

* Seagram
* Showman
* Slayton
* Sweetwater

T

* Tevilton

W

* White
* Whythe
List of Google tangents

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In the course of a recording session, the Friends often find themselves doing Google research on an object or topic of interest to the events at hand, many of which end up leading to short discussions about the thing in question.

## External links

* Horse gait on Wikipedia
* Hobby horse on Wikipedia
Nacre

Map of Nacre from Roll20

Ghosts

**Nacre** was a seaside town on the west coast of Hieron, capital of the former Empire of Pearls, with a significant reliance on piracy. It was sacked by the Ordennan Impetus.

## History

Nacre was traditionally ruled by a sovereign. Before the Erasure, it was known to have exported apples, and the healers called the Hospitaliers du Tristero, into Marielda. The Empire of Pearls once stretched from Rosemerrow up towards Velas.

Tristero considered Nacre a beloved vacation spot. After the Erasure, he spent his power to preserve the city and allow its residents to experience immortality; he became the city's ruler. Its hotel, where he often stayed, became a shrine to him.

After Tristero's death, his daughter, Adelaide Tristé, took the throne. She planned to continue Tristero's work and expand the Empire to its previous breadth, taking Rosemerrow and Velas while skirting the Mark of the Erasure. However, before she could fulfil this plan, the city was attacked and looted by the Ordennan Impetus, and Adelaide was killed. Many of the citizens of Nacre are now refugees of the invasion and have fled to Velas and Rosemerrow.

The current metaphysical status of Nacre and its Empire is complicated.

## Ordenna

The relationship between Nacre and Ordenna seems to trace back to the island's creation. Some in Nacre, such as Wander Avisse, opposed its sealing and left to become Ordenna's first inhabitants. Adelaide claims to have spent time there as a girl.

Nacre's history of piracy in the seas around Ordenna and Velas led to clashes with Ordennan forces. It is unclear how aware Ordennans were of the existence of Nacre, but the rocky relations between the two states eventually gave way when the Impetus was mobilized to invade the city.

## Notes

1. ↑ The word "nacre", from which the city takes its name, refers to the iridescent substance also known as mother-of-pearl.
2. ↑ The language of Nacre appears to draw from French.

## External links

* Nacre on Wikipedia
* Hotel California on Youtube
Autumn in Hieron 20: Do I Feel Followed?

## Episode description

*"Fantasmo catches up with an old friend, Throndir considers the past, and Hadrian decides to carry yet another burden for the party. Samot meets the God of Wolves."*

## Plot

### A Doomed God in the Past of the Ruins

At the episode's outset, the players create a myth about Samot told to the party by Uklan Tel by playing *The Sundered Land*. Austin plays as Samot on a journey, and the others assume the role of the world, out to see him to his doom. They act by answering his questions.

Samot has the summoning name of a ghost burned into his memory and a vast and deadly patience. He is on his second week of traveling through the Lushwood, in the shadow of the Hewed Peak at the center of the continent, supposedly the home of the great dragon Hieron. As he travels through the wood, feeling watched, he eventually sees that he is being followed by a large wolf. He continues, trying to increase the distance between them, but does not succeed. Samot climbs into a tree, looks for it, and sees it has moved to a different spot quicker than could be possible. He travels north through the trees, reaches on a plateau, and, using his vast and deadly patience, makes eye contact with the wolf, which looks into his essence and sees nothing. Samot moves away, maintaining eye contact, and backs into a cave. The wolf bares its teeth. He moves toward the wolf and whispers the name of the ghost, its mother, the God of Wolves, which he killed a week ago, and lets her leave his presence. The wolf bites his hand. He lifts the wolf, throws it against the wall, and kicks it once. It does not submit. He climbs on its back, grabs its throat, and tells it, "Stop." The wolf fights free, and Samot rips the robe from his chest and throws it in the wolf's face, allowing him to escape from the wolf and its mother, the God of Wolves.

Uklan says that that is one of his favorite stories of Samot, and worth drinking to.

## Cast

* Austin Walker (GM, Samot)
* Art Tebbel (Hadrian)
* Nick Scratch (The Great Fantasmo)
* Andrew Lee Swan (Throndir)
Mistral

**Mistral** are bird people who live to the north and northeast of Hieron, in the Isles of Flight. Their culture relies on reputation and is historically grouped into castes based on categories of labor. Currently, lesser castes seem to be the Clipped and the Vouchless.

Some Mistral are trying to reach the moons of Hieron to escape the Heat and the Dark.

Their main god is Severea.

## Appearance

Mistral are similar in appearance to the Rito in the Zelda games Breath of the Wild and Windwaker.
Live at the Table: Misspent Youth

## "Misspent Youth"

### Cold open

*They cannot wait to tell you about the distant affections of gods and the sharp, sharp edges of dark, dark blades. I swear to hear them tell the story of Marielda, that's all there is to it: Samothes, Samot, Maelgwyn, the Six. Sometimes they don't even mention me. They act as if the Lord of Ingenuity was the only source of authority in this town surrounded by a sea of fire, as if the sea of fire itself were not a second authority.*
*But, I am an authority on authority. And I have been around long enough to tell you that for every Lord with a capital "L," there is another, one happy to be written in lowercase. A little line. A little line determined to separate those in power... from those in need. They wear capes and grins and expensive rings. They dance when others cannot afford to listen to music. They send soldiers into the lives of normal folk, and when the soldiers cannot march, they make rules instead.*
*Authority like mine is rare, but authority like that is everywhere. But in the history of Hieron, throughout all time, we are blessed. Because for each little lord, there's a clique of youthful offenders, ready to kick over the throne.*

## Cast

* Austin Walker (GM)
* Sylvia Clare (Theo "Squid" Goldenrod)
* Andrew Lee Swan (Edilia "Edi" Rosamund)
* Jack de Quidt (Run-For-Your-Life)
Jamminjelly

**Jamminjelly** is an individual who frequents the Splatoon boards. He is a handsome user with a bright personality. Favorite colors are red and yellow. Hobbies include derailing topics.

For a while, Jamminjelly battled TheSwordMaster for hellothere189's affection. They soon set aside their differences and decided that they could share hellothere189. They still have a small bitterness towards eachother though. He now has given up on the couple.

## Favorite Weapons

* Splat Charger

* Splattershot Pro
* Slosher
* Custom Jet Squelcher

## Favorite Gear

* Squidvader Cap
* Streetstyle Cap
* Squid-stitch Cap
* Urchins Cap
* Layered Vector LS
* Cream Basics
Kirbehfan

**Kirbehfan** is the creator of the glorious series of "Squid Panties" topics. Unfortunately, "Squid Panties," "Squid Panties 2," "Squid Panties 3: Rebirth of Temileaf," and "Squid Panties 4: Fabulamb's Conquest" has been deleted. The fifth and sixth installment has also been deleted. However, his second in command, Harry (hellothere189) is now posting said series.He also has horrible memory.

## Favorite Weapons

* Krak-on Splat Roller, the best roller there is

## Favorite Gear

* Bike Helmet
* Squid Stitch Cap
* Black Layered LS
* Dark Green Hi-tops

## Trivia

-The thread "Squid Panties 3: Rebirth of Temileaf" is the birthplace of this wiki.

-Started the **SPS Squad** which will eventually take over Inkopolis.

-*Dislikes* most Chargers, Blasters, and even the Dynamos, but can respect a good user when he sees them. Most of the time.
Hedy Braum (weaver)

## Hedy Braum

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**Hedy Braum**, also known as **Other Hedy**, was the first weaver to come to Marielda.

## Appearance

Hedy's small body is smooth and very elastic; she can stretch further than most weavers. She no longer resembles the human Hedy she once seemed to be. Her voice is reminiscent of air being let out of the stretched neck of a balloon.

## History

### The Quiet Year

Found inside a tree in the Western Wood southwest of Marielda by a logging party, she appeared to be a stretched-out version of Hedy Braum, a woman from Canopy Row who had disappeared during the first excursion into the forest looking for wood. They brought her back to Marielda, where she quickly showed herself to be adept at weaving ropes, helping build the nets that shielded Canopy Row from the fishrocks launched by Samothes.

Although Hedy was the first weaver to come to Marielda, more soon followed, with weavers appearing at a rate matching that at which some humans would decide to leave the city for the forest as a result of the disappearance of their loved ones. However, the body of the human Hedy was later discovered, casting great doubt as to the weaver Hedy's trustworthiness. In the middle of a discussion about what to do about Hedy, an elf appeared and told the people of Canopy Row, "Give her to us, we are where she belongs." After a while, having seen the fear in people's eyes, Hedy decided to go.

She later returned to Canopy Row as a small featureless creature in elf children's clothes, apologetic but still unable or unwilling to explain why she claimed to be Hedy Braum. She told the community she wanted to help and began fixing the holes in their net that have formed since she left.

In spite of the mistrust some held for her, others came to support her, and when Tamsyn tried to get people to force her out of the community, they ended up supporting Hedy, and Tamsyn left for the army instead.

As Samot's forces approached, Hedy brought back a battalion of other weavers from the forest to protect Canopy Row. Their abilities went a long way towards protecting the community in the coming war.

### Later endeavors

Hedy became a community leader among weavers, leading a group known as the Weaver Union that petitioned for workers' rights and acceptance. The Weaver Union allied itself with the Black Slacks and the cobbins of Black Sand Alchemical, and the three took control of Emberboro, Iris, and parts of Helianthus Parish. She is regarded with disdain or hostility by elves and weavers in Quince Parish and the Western Woodswho believe that rather than pushing for acceptance in Marielda, they should be moving back toward a less industrial society.

In "Four Conversations," Hedy meets with Sige in Quince Parish, home of the elves, hiding in an alley and saying that "They can't see me here, they don't like me anymore, but I said I would do a favor for a friend," and leads him to meet with Samol in the forest.

## See also

* List of characters in the Quiet Year
* List of characters in The Six's arc
Goblin

**Goblins** are a humanoid people known to live around the Mark of the Erasure. Although sometimes perceived as unintelligent and hostile, in part due to the loss of language inflicted by word eaters, they are in fact a sophisticated society and once intermingled with the elves, and many snow elves carry their genes.

## Appearance

Goblins are short and wiry, with leathery, green-brown skin. They bleed purple.
Hitchcock's rules

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**Hitchcock's rules of dancing/dueling** are a set of important principles that Hitchcock makes sure to impress upon his students, as repeated by Carolyn and Caroline Fair-Play. They may or may not be identical between brothers and between disciplines.

1. Never trust a priest you don't know.
2. Always carry a weapon.
3. *[exact wording unknown, has to do with running away]*
4. Have a lockpick.
5. Never fail.

* It is bad luck to celebrate before you succeed at something. *[number unknown]*