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A curious change is taking place among the small farmstead of Shalloweaves. Even though it is nearly winter, some day the sun will blaze brightly in the sky and the fields would be filled with dazzling flowers and grass of verdant green. At other times, the sky will darken with dismal clouds and hail and rain would come forth. Wild animals one day would be tamed, the other day ferocious. There is a local folklore of a “dreamer” who was buried in a grove hidden somewhere an inaccessible forest, and that her dreams, in death, would influence life as it is for Shalloweaves.

1. The dreamer was a Mystic, who volunteered to be bury alive, to combat a malign evil that lurked within the region. The priest of one of the old kings of Elleseland was determined to deny the invaders the land that was his home, even if it means destroying it. Invoking a pact with one of the Old Gods, he became a spirit which would spread desolation, plague and famine across the land. The Mystic, an skilled Adept, bound herself to the tomb of the dead priest, and fought back in her dreams. She is no dead, as folktales suggest, but rather in a trance. Apparently she is losing the fight. Perhaps the adventurers could lend a hand.
2. Shalloweaves is in fact bordering on the domain of the fey; the faeries and the villagers living there reached a pact long ago that they would live in peace and would leave the ancient boundaries stones, which mark the start and end of each domain, alone. As the faerie realm existed in an ‘other-space’, they have little way of knowing what is happening in the mortal realm without sending frequent scouts, which the mortals rather not happened. Hence one of the faerie became the ‘dreamer’, retreating to a grove and put herself into a trance whereby she is able to observe the behaviour of the mortals and ensure that they keep the pact. Her actions suggest that she is getting increasing erratic. Perhaps mad. But before the adventurers take any action against her, maybe they should try to inform the faerie folks too, before this crisis escalate.
3. The founder of the village was a gentle deaconess of the True Faith who when on her death bed, expressed her dying wishes, which is to be buried in a grove where she loved to mediate. Due to her devotion, the grove eventually became sacred (though theologists and arcanists believed other factors may be involved). The deaconness found herself, in the afterlife, to be bound to the village who she had found and had been watching over it. Eventually, the origin of Shalloweaves was forgotten, and the hidden presence which sometimes made herself known in others’ dreams and changing the weather became known as the ‘dreamer’. Her recent dreams seems to be hinting at a threat against Shalloweaves; the villagers which the beasts are aggressive against seems to have some part to play in it, and whether the weather swollen with unexpected rain, those seem to be perfect days for rituals. However, whoever is planning some nefarious plans in Shalloweaves has gain a understanding of the spirit who is foiling his plan. The adventurers would have to act fast.

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