Rootfall

Built where a massive ancient tree fell and created a natural clearing, Rootfall is a ground-level village that trades directly with Tallpine above and Green Hollow to the south. The fallen tree's root system, still partially alive, forms natural walls and sheltered alcoves that the villagers have incorporated into their homes. Within the Bellroot Vale, this site sits in the wider network of villages, ruins, and Pattern-touched places that radiate out from Drelmere and Bellroot Crossing. The Vale's relative stability since the Second Shard was recovered from the Bell Tree is felt here, but the Loosening and the Fray still leave their fingerprints — old paths that no longer match the new ones, names half-remembered, the occasional warm wind out of the wrong season.