"A man with no coin can still build a home, if he has axe and luck enough."
The Builder’s Grove contains not only trees of stone-bound utility and carpentry but also the strange, treacherous anomalies that masquerade as structure-bearing flora. While noble trees like Everwood Trees yield long-burning, enchantment-friendly timber, and are revered for their strength and permanence, the infamous Hollowhusk Trees mock such usefulness with their haunting presence. Smooth and bone-pale, these trees are not crafted, they are avoided. Despite appearing perfect for shaping hulls, beams, or vessels due to their hollow interior, any attempt to harvest or shape them ends in dust and forgetting. A felled Hollowhusk disintegrates, and those who carried it often forget why they went into the forest to begin with. Far from a resource, the Hollowhusk is a trap, growing not by root or seed, but by presence. And in places where people vanish, it blooms, utterly still, and utterly wrong. While the Builder’s Grove speaks to industry and preservation, it also whispers caution: some trees grow to be used, others grow only to undo.