Chapter 1: The Trial of Tenebrous Bloom Spring approaches and the villagers of the Bhal community of Guthram are preparing for the Rite of The Nocturnal Bloom. Guthramites will give offerings to the spirits of the land and faeries of the deep dark woods in the hope they will grant them a year of plenty and spare them calamity. All around the village people busy themselves making preparations. Everything must be perfect, for to offend the spirits or fair folk of the woods could spell disaster. Everyone has a role to play, and so a group of local children have been summoned to Druid Banek who is waiting in the shrine to the Old Gods.