Atop the steep stony embankments of the Red River about a day’s travel from Letath is the Loreweaver Monastery where a group of cloistered servants of Hecate, goddess of magic & the moon. Most spend their days duplicating texts either to enlarge the cloister library or to trade to others for books they do not have. A smaller number work with handicrafts – crafting orbs, wands and other foci. These foci are always slightly magical of their own accord, crafted only at night and alloyed or inlayed with moonlight made solid.

As a shrine the Hecate, they also see a fair number of visitors seeking her magic or assistance with other spells, hexes, geases, and curses or wishing to access the cloister library. Others are less charitable towards the Loreweavers – seeing it as a den of witches and warlocks who…