The Bellroot Vale

The forested heart of the Everloop's western reach — a temperate vale of slow rivers, old-growth oak, and bell-marked clearings where the Pattern still feels close to the surface. The Vale was once the sanctuary of the Dreamers, and before the Fray its towns kept time by the resonance of buried Anchor-stones. Today it is the most stable region outside the Luminous Fold, in part because the Second Shard of the Pattern was recovered here from the Bell Tree in Drelmere. Bellroot Crossing serves as its administrative seat; Drelmere is its symbolic centre. The First Root Chamber, beneath the Old Bellroot Site, is older than any written record — Vaultkeepers believe it predates the Weaving itself. The Vale is where the siblings Kaerlin, Mira, and Thomel began their quest after their mother Alira's death, and where Eidon the last Dreamer chose to unfold.