The Rootbound Hollow

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• →The Hollowing Oak — The root-warren opens beneath the Hollowing Oak, fed by the great tree's taproots.
• ←The Sap-Drinkers — They sit in the weeping sap-chambers of the deep warren, bark closing over their wrists.
• ←Draught of Stillsap — The sap is drawn only from the weeping chambers beneath the Hollowing Oak.
• ←The Amber Sap — The amber sap seeps from the Rootbound Hollow's deepest galleries — its source and the Greenwake's hoarded supply.
• →The Hollowing Oak — The Rootbound Hollow is the cave system beneath the Hollowing Oak, formed by the great tree's taproots splitting the bedrock.

guards

• ←The Rootbound — The Rootbound keep the giving-dark, warding the sap-caches and the dead wound into the wood.

references

• ←Warden Esk of the Oak — The Wake-master forbids axe and broker from the hollow, and names the sap a thing not to be sold.
• →Sorrel, Who Is Rooting — The charm-hung still wardens of the deep are what Sorrel is slowly becoming — the road's end, made stone-and-root.
• ←The Weeping Boughs — The Weeping Boughs is a deeper sap-seam further west — the same geological amber system as the Rootbound Hollow, but older and wetter.

foreshadows

• →The Ash-Sealed Barrow — A gentler give-to-the-earth than the ash-sealed dead far east — the same surrender to the land, none of the dread.

occurred_at

• ←quest.the-weeping-galleries (unresolved) — The quest plays out in the deep weeping sap-galleries beneath the Hollowing Oak.

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• ←Death of Seasons — Death of Seasons was sealed in a rot-wrapped cache in the Rootbound Hollow, where the Ruin itself stands guard over the spear that hurries the turning.