The Shadowed Vale
Rolling hills, small woods and moonlit farmland in the middle of the province — a close cousin of the Meadowlands with the sun taken out. The Navi grow the strange crops that prefer moonlight, and take them to the Duskmarket.
The Land
Relatively peaceful and relatively open, which in the Twilight Veil counts for a great deal. The crops here luminesce faintly and will not grow under a normal sky, which makes the Vale the only reliable source of a dozen commodities the Kingdom has become quietly dependent on.
To Spriggan eyes the Vale is as vibrant and colourful as the Heartland, and considerably less painful to look at.
South lies the Twilight Forest; north, the Nightmarsh; west, the ruin-country of the Hollow Marches. A short border in the south-east touches the point where the Taiga and the Briar Patch meet.
The Navi
Farmers, herders and traders, and the most conventionally settled people in the province. They sow, tend, and travel to and from the Duskmarket with a regularity the Leshy find dull and the Loa find admirable.
They are also the Veil's diplomats by default, being the ones who deal with outsiders most often and dislike it least.
Encounters
Roll d100. Open farmland with the sun taken out. Gentle, until something comes off the Marches or out of the sky. CR is scaled to Faerie size — see Challenge by Size.
| d100 | Encounter | CR |
|---|---|---|
| 01–09 | 1d6 Navi with a cart of luminescent crop bound for the Duskmarket | — |
| 10–16 | 2d6 farm crickets in a moonlit stall, singing the field boundaries | ¼ |
| 17–23 | 1d4 moths, lesser, working the nightbloom rows as pollinators and transport | 2 |
| 24–30 | a crop failure: a whole terrace of moonlit grain has gone dark, and nobody knows why | — |
| 31–36 | 1d6 fireflies out of a shuttered loft, escaped, and worth a season's wages | ½ |
| 37–42 | 1d4 ladybird beetles in an aphid pasture on a Vale farm | 1 |
| 43–48 | 2d4 wolf spiders running the stubble, young on their backs | 3 |
| 49–54 | 1d3 ground beetles night-hunting a hedge line | 2 |
| 55–60 | 1d6 raiders out of the Hollow Marches, quiet, organised, and not goblins | 4 |
| 61–66 | 1d2 bark scorpions in a drystone wall | 4 |
| 67–72 | 1 greater robber fly over the open fields, with a duelist's build | 6 |
| 73–77 | 1d2 mice in the grain, unbroken and unafraid | 6 |
| 78–82 | 1 shrew crossing a field, which never stops and cannot | 7 |
| 83–87 | 1 praying mantis at a field edge, prepared to talk it over first | 8 |
| 88–91 | 1 bat working the field margins by sound | 10 |
| 92–94 | 1 mole up through a terrace, blind and tireless | 11 |
| 95–96 | 1 jay on a fence post, calling in a voice one of you loves | 13 |
| 97–98 | 1 barn owl over open ground, silent, hearing a heartbeat in the grain | 19 |
| 99 | 1 opossum in the hedge, hard to finish and very good at pretending otherwise | 17 |
| 00 | 1 great horned owl — and there is no cover between the terraces and the wood | 23 |