PERSONAE · THE VALE

Brother Wick

A Wandering Cup of the Stillwater Order — barefoot, broke, unfailingly cheerful, and the monk most likely to teach a stranger the empty hand over a shared crust.

Wick walks the Vale with a begging bowl and a bottomless good humor that disarms everyone from gate-guards to relic-brokers. He owns nothing and fears nothing, which makes him the best recruiter the Order has — a newcomer meets Wick on the road, learns one breath of the Stillwater Stance, and finds themselves climbing to the tarn weeks later. He carries messages between Master Oén and the wider Vale, and he is quietly terrified about what's happening at the master's deathbed. Because he walks everywhere and remembers everyone, he is the Vale's one recurring face — you meet him again at crossroads up and down the region, and he greets you by what you've done since last, warm every time. Under the jokes he is grieving his master, and showing up glad anyway is the truest thing he knows how to teach.

KIND

mortal

CURRENT LOCATION

Valenfeld

ROLE

Wandering Cup, recruiter, messenger — and the Vale's recurring road-friend

RECURRING PRESENCE

yes

Connected

The Wandering CupsFACTION · Wick walks the roads.The Stillwater OrderFACTION · An Order monk.Master Oén of the Empty CupCHARACTER · Wick carries the master's messages.The Cantor's Daughter (a taproom song)TEXT · Wick knows every verse and sings the daft Choir line…

Voices & Sounds

Game Data (1)

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data/content/npcs.json

idstillwater_steward

gendermale

canon_refcharacter.brother-wick

nameBrother Wick

factiontemple

health60

disposition48

greetingStill water, outlander. The Order wants nothing — which is the hardest thing in all the vale to want, and the only thing worth the wanting. Sit a moment. Or don't; Master Oén is dying, and there's a thing in it only a stranger's hands can rightly do.

spawn{"x":-1736,"z":2540}

regionthe_mirrenmere

behaviorwander

wander_radius3

guild_contact{"guild_id":"stillwater","welcome":"Then you're of the Still now, Novice. Before any vengeance or relic, the first discipline: go up to the tarn that never ripples and learn the empty hand. Set down what you want — want nothing — and the echo's note finds nothing in you to ring. Sit the long quiet, then come back to me.","business":"The tarn is still waiting, Novice, and so is the empty hand. Go sit the long quiet and learn to want nothing, then bring it back to me."}

quest_fork{"quest":"stillwater_masters_refusal","branches":[{"key":"help-him-refuse","label":"✦ Help him refuse — die empty and at peace","say":"You helped him set it down. Oén dies empty, and at peace, and the creed holds: the offer can be refused, even at the last breath. You carry that proof now. It is heavier than any relic, and it cannot be taken from you."},{"key":"help-him-accept","label":"✦ Help him accept — join the Drowned beneath the tarn","say":"You helped him take it. A master of the Still goes down into the dark water to join the First of the Drowned, and the heresy that an echo is continuation gains a voice the Order may not outlast. You have heard the water close over a certainty. So have we all."}]}

topics{"order":"We sit by the tarn and want nothing, and we prove by wanting nothing that power can be set down. The First of the Drowned, beneath the water, is what it costs to fail at that. We do not hide him. We point to him.","oen":"Master Oén of the Empty Cup. Sixty years he wanted nothing, and now the echo offers him the one want he never killed. If he refuses, the creed holds. If he accepts — well. That is why your hands, and not ours, must be the ones at the edge."}

bounty_on_assault70

bounty_on_kill1000

racereshi

Type Fields

kindmortal

current_locationplace.vallenfield-town

affiliationsfaction.the-stillwater-order, faction.the-wandering-cups

roleWandering Cup, recruiter, messenger — and the Vale's recurring road-friend

recurring_presenceyes

All Relationships (4)

member_of

→The Wandering Cups — Wick walks the roads.
→The Stillwater Order — An Order monk.

references

→Master Oén of the Empty Cup — Wick carries the master's messages.
→The Cantor's Daughter (a taproom song) — Wick knows every verse and sings the daft Choir line loudest — the warm face and the warm song belong to the same taproom.

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