The Hollowing Oak

worships

• ←The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The tribes hang ancestor-charms in the Hollowing Oak and keep it holy.

references

• →The Barrow Prophecy — The oak's ancestor-rites are of a piece with the prophecy the tribes keep.

rival_of

• ←The Ashen Temple — The Temple calls the oak's ancestor-cult heresy and stays out of the trees.

located_in

• ←Greatwood Tusker — A bull tusker holds the ground around the holy oak.
• ←Ancestor Shade — It is bound to the hollow of the great ancestor-tree.
• ←The Greenwake — The Greenwake keeps the Greatwood from the Hollowing Oak.
• ←Warden Esk of the Oak — Esk keeps the Oak.
• ←The Living-Wood Bow — Grown from the Oak's own seed.
• ←The Rootbound Hollow — The root-warren opens beneath the Hollowing Oak, fed by the great tree's taproots.
• ←The Charm-Cutters — Work the high boughs of the Oak by night.
• ←Oakwatch — Oakwatch is the Greenwake's camp ringing the Hollowing Oak — a cluster of warden-shelters at the great tree's path-heads.
• ←Sorrel's Glade — Sorrel's Glade is a short distance off the Hollowing Oak's path — deliberately off the warden-maps.
• ←The Living-Wood Bow — The Living-Wood Bow is cut from the Hollowing Oak's own seed — the Oak decides, in its slow way, who gets one.
• ←The Rootbound Hollow — The Rootbound Hollow is the cave system beneath the Hollowing Oak, formed by the great tree's taproots splitting the bedrock.
• ←The Beaver-Flats — The Beaver-Flats lie in the middle Greatwood between the Oak and the western edge — part of the Hollowing Oak's broader territory.
• ←The Lightning Snag — The Lightning Snag stands in the Greatwood proper — visible above the canopy from ridge-tops and used by travellers to steer toward the Oak.

guards

• ←Ancestor Shade — The ancestor-shades keep the Hollowing Oak and its hung bone-charms, calm only while the offerings are kept.

hidden_in

• ←The Last Green Hour — A rare echo-trinket: a Greenwake warden's last walk through the living wood, found here.

member_of

• →The Greenwake — The Hollowing Oak is the Greenwake's headquarters and the wild guild's gravity well.