Henriette Silverfoil

Henriette Silverfoil travels the roads of Farenia in a brightly painted waggon pulled by a Aeum-powered Gnome Workshop horse, selling handmade toys and keeping old stories alive. She visits Bridgeport four times a year and every village and market town in between when the season allows. Every child who has heard her wagon's signature horn - a cheerful five-second tune audible a mile down the road - knows what it means, and they come running.

Appearance and Manner

Henriette is a solidly-built human woman somewhere in her mid-sixties. Her hair is a fine silver-white, usually pinned up under a wide felt hat. Her fingers are permanently ink-stained, her nails short, and she keeps a jeweller's loupe pushed up on her forehead as a matter of habit, even when she is not examining anything. She wears practical travelling clothes in warm earth colours, and her workshop apron - hung on a hook inside the wagon - is a patchwork of old stains from paint, varnish, and glue that no amount of washing has ever fully removed. She is warm and direct. She asks children questions and actually listens to the answers. She asks adults about their grandparents and the stories they were told, and she writes things down in a small leather notebook she keeps in her coat pocket.

The Wagon

The wagon began its life as a travelling family home, repurposed by Henriette over several years into a mobile workshop and showroom. It is five metres long, three metres high, and heavy at four tonnes fully loaded, but its Aeum-powered horse - manufactured and maintained by Gnome Workshop - handles the weight without complaint. The horse is built to look like a large brown farm horse with a white forelock and tail, and from a distance it is convincing. Up close the mechanical joints and the faint hum of its power core give it away, but children find this more exciting nonetheless. The wagon's side walls fold down automatically at the pull of a lever, transforming it into a roofed open stall in under a minute. The interior is fitted with shelves, a small workbench, a fold-down sleeping cot, a cooking corner, and a secure cabinet for tools and materials. When Henriette is absent, Gnome Workshop security mechanisms engage - she will not discuss the details, but she has never been robbed.

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Species

Human

Year of Birth

2801 PB 64 Years old

Owned Vehicles

• Toy Maker's Waggon

Profession

Master Tinkerer

The Toys

Henriette's toys are all based on old stories: the tales told by grandmothers to grandchildren, the songs sung at harvest, the characters from regional folklore that exist only in living memory and disappear when the last person who knows them dies. She treats these stories as a kind of treasury and her toys as the interest it earns. Her most popular lines are singing wind-up puppets, clockwork animals, painted music boxes, and rocking horses in the traditional Farenian style. Most of her pieces move, make sound, or both. All of them are priced within reach of working families - she considers unaffordable toys a failure of craft. During each stop she also takes commissions for custom pieces and delivers them on her next visit to the same location.

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