Tallpine

A ridge-top village built among the tallest trees in the Vale, where walkways connect platforms a hundred feet above the forest floor. Tallpine's inhabitants rarely descend to ground level, trading with Rootfall below via rope-drawn baskets. The village offers the only clear view above the canopy for miles. 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.