Corwyth Skarn

Corwyth Skarn

Corwyth Skarn is a senior figure in the Talons of Veylan, the dragon-hunting wing of the Emerald Enclave, and the elder who assigned Keyleth her cell — Talonfall — on her elevation to Scaled Bane.

What the company knows

Very little firsthand. Nobody in Deez Nuts has met him. He sent five people, a hawk, and a letter, and the letter is the whole of the acquaintance so far.

From it: he has served the Talons for forty years. He keeps no fixed hall and moves between Talon camps, and correspondence reaches him by bird rather than by road. He writes plainly and in order, does not decorate anything, and answered a routine assignment letter with an unsolicited account of his own losses — twenty-one of his people buried across those forty years, nineteen of them on culls.

He assigned Brannoc Yew to walk the Grove Burnings sites on his own initiative, on the grounds that a man who has spent years counting those groves ought to be the one who visits them. He told Keyleth she could reverse the posting without argument.

He closed by telling her she had done well by the order, and that easing Veylan's spirit was a debt the Talons owed and she had paid.

Bearing

He is not a warm correspondent, but he is a scrupulously honest one. He set out the limits on what Talonfall may be asked to do before Keyleth could ask for anything, put the hard restriction in writing so it could not later be argued about, and offered standing counsel: send word before using them hard, and he will say honestly whether he thinks they will come back.

Relationships

• Keyleth — the Talon he raised to Scaled Bane, and the reason Talonfall exists
• Nettle — the anchor of Talonfall; answers directly to him
• Talons of Veylan — his order; standings are tracked on the Renown Tracker
• Emerald Enclave — the wider faction