PERSONAE · THE VALE

Belethys

aka The Widow of Valenfeld, Bel the Ash-Mother

An elderly townswoman who lost her son to the barrow and her husband to the silver road, and now waits with a patience that has become something else.

Belethys has outlived two eras of grief and arrived somewhere beyond both. She feeds the gate guards in winter, argues with Veller about proper procedure, and lights a candle at the Temple each week for a son whose name the Asheni refuse to return to her. Every seventh evening she hauls her mending basket to Ahnassi's hearth and holds a mending-bee — torn shirts, split boot leather, a cracked strap, whatever the town's been putting off — and half of Valenfeld drifts in over the course of the night whether they have mending or not, because sitting near Belethys with a needle in your hand is the closest most of them get to being fussed over by a mother. She never asks who came for the company and who came for the stitches, and she never runs out of thread.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Asheni

ROLE

townswoman

LOCATION

Valenfeld

Connected

ValenfeldPLACE · She has not left Valenfeld in eight years.The Ash-ReturnCONCEPT · She cannot speak her son's name because the tribes h…The Ashen TempleFACTION · She lights a candle at the Temple weekly. Sister Vet…Sister VethiCHARACTER · Vethi counts Belethys's son in her tally of the dead…Dreva VelthysCHARACTER · Belethys brings Dreva bread on cold mornings — the o…Veller SoranCHARACTER · A twenty-year ritual argument over the wool cart's q…

Voices & Sounds

Game Data (1)

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data/content/npcs.json

idwidow_belethys

genderfemale

canon_refcharacter.widow-belethys

nameBelethys

regionthe_vale

faction

health60

disposition55

greetingAn elderly townswoman who lost her son to the barrow and her husband to the silver road, and now waits with a patience that has become something else.

spawn{"x":4.5,"z":-6}

behaviorwander

wander_radius3.5

topics{"self":"townswoman. Belethys has outlived two eras of grief and arrived somewhere beyond both. She feeds the gate guards in winter, argues with Veller about proper procedure, and lights a candle at the Temple each week for a son whose name the Ashari refuse to return to her."}

racehuman

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesAsheni

roletownswoman

locationplace.vallenfield-town

affiliations—

disposition55

secretsHer son entered the barrow voluntarily — she sent him there to retrieve something she will not name.

voice_notesWarm but hollowed. Offers food as punctuation. Does not complain.

All Relationships (9)

located_in

→Valenfeld — She has not left Valenfeld in eight years.
→The Bonesung Camp — Belethys finds her way to the camp's edge asking after her son's name — the Ash-Return has not released it.

references

→The Ash-Return — She cannot speak her son's name because the tribes have not released it. She does not understand why that is the law.
→The Ash-Return — Belethys seeks her son's name which the Ash-Return ritual has not released — the Withheld Name quest's hook.
←quest.the-withheld-name (unresolved) — The widow is the other party — her need for her son's name is what makes the choice in the quest hard.

ally_of

→The Ashen Temple — She lights a candle at the Temple weekly. Sister Vethi is the closest thing she has to counsel.
→Sister Vethi — Vethi counts Belethys's son in her tally of the dead. They speak carefully around the gap between them.
→Dreva Velthys — Belethys brings Dreva bread on cold mornings — the one townsperson unafraid of what the crone has outlived.
→Veller Soran — A twenty-year ritual argument over the wool cart's queue that both secretly enjoy; Veller always relents by noon.

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