Saint Fellund was a wandering cleric of the High Faith who lived in the mid-700s AR, roughly two centuries before the Fall. Rather than ministering from a parish, Fellund walked the borderlands - the isolated farmsteads, the hamlets at the forest's edge, the shepherd camps too small and too far to merit a priest of their own. The Church tolerated this but didn't love it, because Fellund's ministry had an uncomfortable overlap with Old Ways practice: wherever they stopped, they would walk the full boundary of the settlement - every fence post, every gate, every threshold - pressing a thumb marked with ash against each one while reciting the Lawgiver's protection. The argument was that divine law had to be physically marked to hold in the wild places where the Church had no permanent presence.

Their death is unrecorded precisely. They were found at a forest's edge, still kneeling, mid-prayer. Whatever came out of the wood left no other evidence.

The Feast of Saint Fellund is largely a rural observance the urban Church considers quaint. It involves three things:

  • The Boundary Walk: residents walk the perimeter of their home or farm at dusk, marking each corner with a thumb of ash or chalk. Children often do this carrying a candle.

  • The Threshold Candle: a single candle or oil lamp left burning at the front door through the night, meant to show any traveller the house is not hostile.

  • The Traveller's Portion: a small plate of food left outside. Officially it's charity for wandering strangers. In practice, especially in villages near the Oldwood, everyone quietly understands it's also an offering to whatever might be listening at the tree-line.

The High Faith endorses the first two. It officially does not endorse the third. It also does not send anyone out to stop it.


17th of Kaelon