Sangfielle 12: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 4

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This episode carries content warnings for insect infestation, brief descriptions of bones, decorative bone carving, and disembodiment.

Safe in the company of the Didacts of Genburi, Lye Lychen, Duvall, and Es have a moment to rest and consider their options. Between this studious temple and the safety of Blackwick is the realm of Aterika'Kaal, twisted demi-god. And even beyond its reach, there is Roseroot Hall, where its blood thirsty remains sit in the manor's hidden heart, bound by unholy contract to Dayward YVE. If that was not enough, there is, also, the matter of the relic skull, ripped from the creature's roots. Much to consider, they think. Much to consider.

This week on Sangfielle: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 4

The Almanac of the Heartland Rider

Places

Roseroot Hall: Now in the northern hills of Blackwick County, Roseroot Hall once stood mighty and imperious as a plantation house in the eastern half of the Heartland. Though the yon Vantzon-Estonbergh held it once, it fell into disrepair sometime after the panic. Details have been lost to time.

Facts and Figures

Aterika'Kaal aka "Roseroot" aka "Rose Shade": An ambivalent and ancient spirit. Offers the sweet smell and sublime beauty of roses and the sturdy foundation of a root structure. In exchange: Feed it.

Genburi (he/him): What's there to be said about that old rat that people don't already know? A divine professor, taller than most, with an eye as much for provocative fashion as book learning. Wears a lot of purple. Knows a bunch of languages. Not much else to say.

Dayward yon Vantzon-Estonbergh aka Dayward YVE (he/him): The moneyed scion of a minor Aldominan dynasty, Dayward YVE has traveled to the Heartland as both eager-apologist and curious explorer. Sensing opportunity, he's settled in Blackwick County.

Ana Berylia (she/her): Dayward YVE's maid, a somewhat overwhelmed Carpana who has not adjusted to life in the Heartland. Her body is covered in brown/black hair with little streaks of grey at her temples. Mostly seen in uniform, a grey dress with white apron.

Mr. Kenson (he/him): Big Horn Ram Kaprak. White fur with brown and black spots. Personal valet. Copper wireframe glasses. Proper black suit.

Dyre Ode (he/they): When an agent of the almanac pressed this mysterious, masked figure for more information about him, they only repeated their name, as if to ensure we'd print it right, adding "Dyre with Y but Ode as you'd like, a poem said in praise or a debt gone unpaid. It bothers me little, how you spell that name."

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart), Art Martinez-Tebbel (@atebbel), Keith J Carberry (@keithjcarberry)

Produced by Ali Acampora and Austin Walker

Music by Jack de Quidt (available on bandcamp)

Text by Austin Walker

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

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0:00.0	Song Fiel is a series that draws on elements of dark fantasy, horror, and gothic fiction.
0:05.6	As such, a list of content warnings will always be made available in the episode description.
0:11.7	You see a giant, unkempt rose bush. It is not looking very good, there's not lots of leaves on the
0:19.1	bush. There are, however, occasional flowers that it's a little upsetting to even look at,
0:24.8	because, you know, you know what a rose bush looks like, and when the rose bush is flowering,
0:30.5	all of it should be in blue. In the middle of this rose bush, there is an absence in it,
0:36.5	that if you look at it just right, looks like a skull. And the moment you see that you feel it
0:42.4	chill run through your body, as your eyes lock with this absence, this skull like absence,
0:50.0	you vanish. And where you find yourself is in some vast, distant forest in front of this rose bush,
1:00.5	but much, much, much larger. The blood pulls out of your hand, and as it hits the dirt,
1:07.3	immediately there's this reaction of little buds beginning to sprout on the rose bush,
1:13.6	little green leaves starting to pop out, the deep ground of the wood returning to it.
1:19.1	There's a sense, it's almost like a pulse through the house. I want to say the whole house shakes
1:23.4	in this moment, as if something's changed in the foundation, as if something's changed, you know,
1:28.4	throughout. Between the bugs, slowly turning on Duval, and the thorns turning on, like,
1:36.5	this thing has begun to directly hurt you. For you, Duval, the thing that happens here is,
1:41.9	there's almost as if there is a metaphorical, like, page turn has just happened. They weren't
1:47.9	blind to you. It's as if you are rapidly feeling how this god changed over time. It got the taste for
1:55.9	blood, right? The first time the mosquito bites at you, it isn't even that hungry, and then bit by bit,
2:02.5	it's like something has given it the taste of blood. There's something literally in the
2:07.2	vine where there is something else. There's an object in there that wants something else,
2:14.3	and that has been overwhelmed by this greed. Once there was this god that was ambivalent,
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