Marrek's Roost

Old Marrek the Wallwright's hut wedged into a crag-nose above Hollowfold — walls he has mended into a one-man warren over forty years of not being paid properly.

Marrek did not build the Roost so much as accumulate it: a natural crag-overhang plus thirty years of mortaring every gap, dragging every loose stone into place, until the wind cannot find him and neither can anyone who does not already know the path. He keeps a fire, a cot, a shelf of tools, and a mental map of every hollow, seep, and delve mouth on the Spur. He will trade that map, one approach at a time, for news, a warm meal, or the right kind of company.