Birchfall

Gathering

8 of 9 finds gathered here. Each one appears once anyone gathers it in this city. See Life skills.

Crafting

17 of 18 recipes that use materials from here are known. Crafting works in any town; these are what this city's materials go into. See Recipes.

Blacksmithing

Copper ring (1), Kitchen knife (1), Apprentice wand (5), Quarterstaff (8), Tinker's pick (10), Tinker's hatchet (10), Tinker's sickle (10), Tinker's rod (10)

Alchemy

Minor healing potion (1), Focus draught (5), Firebomb (10), Cleansing tonic (12), Frost bomb (18)

Cooking

Grilled carp (1), Trout stew (5), Eel pie (10), Sun perch skewers (15)

General store

The same shop is in every town, stocked by your checkpoint city's tier. With your checkpoint here, these join the shelf at tier 1. See the full stock.

• Minor Healing Potion

  30 gold

• Smelling Salts

  40 gold

• Notched Axe

  90 gold

• Militia Spear

  90 gold

• Kitchen Knife

  90 gold

• Dog-Eared Grimoire

  90 gold

• Chapel Hammer

  90 gold

• Leather Jerkin

  90 gold

• Grilled carp

  5 gold

• Trout stew

  10 gold

Events and weather

Every tier 1 city shares these. They turn up on the roads out of town.

Events

48 of 49 tier 1 events seen

The cursed shrine, A merchant in the fog, The wounded knight, The goblin who wants to play, The black pool, An abandoned nest, A chest on the road, The old well, A travelling bard, A ring of mushrooms, Wolf ambush, Bandit toll, The glowing crack, A roadside hot spring, A loose page, The arm-wrestling miner, Soot squall, The silver bowl, The pointing scarecrow, The white hart, The snared goblin, Something on your shoulder, Blood moon, Timber, The chained book, The door with opinions, The book cart, The helpful signpost, The road across the sea, A message in a bottle, The sailor who lost his ship, A shed glass shell, The glinting tide pool, The sword in the surf, Gull raid, The chicken, A fresh grave, The goblin census, Light fingers, An amateur robbery, Pell's broken wheel, A still-warm campfire, A purse with your name on it, The apprentice, The skull on the fencepost, The oath stone, The sleeping guard, The town crier

Weather

Tier 1 roads have no weather.

History: What the Birches Hold

3 of 12 pieces known. The locals tell them in town, one at a time, and each one appears here once anyone hears it.

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4. A trapper: I've seen the Moonfang. Jaws silver to the ears, like it's been drinking where it shouldn't.

   A trapper: It only runs mad under a red moon. The rest of the month it just watches the white trees, same as the rest of us.

   First seen by Ottilie (Sukha Yatadera) · 5 Oct 2026

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6. A druid's apprentice: I held the bowl that night in the Hollow. I remember the red moon, and the ink coming up the roots like milk boiling over.

   A druid's apprentice: Then I remember morning, and the bowl empty in my hands. She wasn't gone. That was the trouble.

   First seen by Hester (DJGG) · 30 Sept 2026

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12. A druid's apprentice: The ink isn't the trees' blood. It comes from under them, from much further down, and it's louder every year.

    A druid's apprentice: The birches are a sieve. She reached past the sieve and drank from the bottom.

    First seen by Hester (DJGG) · 30 Sept 2026