Mayor Halrick Vann

Mayor of Drelmere, former soldier of the Bellroot militia, and the town's most dignified contradiction. Halrick Vann polishes his boots each morning, presides over council with a soldier's posture, and publicly refuses to acknowledge that the Fray exists. Privately, he spent two Cycles studying the Bell Tree in his study behind locked doors and recognised — alone — that the spiral markings on its bells matched the engravings inside the cave beneath Drelmere. He gave Kaerlin the key without ever saying out loud what he had figured out. The siblings entered the cave because Halrick told them the order. He still refuses to admit the Fray exists; the Bellroot Vale is alive because of the man who refuses to admit why.