The Wexamour Chronicle

What Lies South of the Town: A Review of the Evidence, Such As We Have It

Nobody on the strip will talk about the south, and that refusal is old, and it is deliberate. So rather than collect a silence, I have gone to the maps, the old surveys, the physical accounts, and the sightings our own pages have printed, and tried to weigh what can actually be established against what is merely feared. The evidence is thin. Read together, it is also pointing somewhere, and it is not pointing at nothing.

Hollis Barrow breaks the strip’s long refusal to discuss the land south of the second creek and reviews what can actually be established about it: why the region has always declined to ask, a cartographic record that stops at the second creek by someone’s deliberate choice, unconfirmed but consistent accounts of older ruins, the spring’s disappearances, and the ghost sightings that all share a southward bearing. Weighing hearsay against confirmation, he concludes that whatever lies south, the one thing the evidence rules out is that there is nothing there at all.

The Strip Is Seeing People Who Are Not There, and It Is Seeing Them Nightly Now

A woman seated in a house that should be dark. Another who keeps pace on the Downs road and is gone when you turn. A third the children will no longer cross the creek to pass. The Board has collected the reports because somebody should, and because pretending you did not see a thing has never once made the thing leave.

The Faded Lands Community Board gathers a season’s worth of ghost sightings from across the outer reaches, now arriving faster than the Board can write them down: a richly dressed woman seated in a lit hollow house, a green-gowned figure who walks the Downs road without answering, and a silver-haired woman at the crossing the children have stopped taking. The strip is divided between those who name it and those who, in the Evernal way, would rather let it pass in silence.

The Door That Only Opens One Way: What the Chronicle Found When It Went Looking for the Reverie's Missing

Our wellness pages called it the loveliest hour in the Groves. Six weeks on, this reporter has counted at least nine people who walked out to the Misthollow lodge and have not been seen since, and one of them wrote for this newspaper.

A Chronicle investigation into The Reverie, the immersive attraction at the restored Misthollow lodge, finds a growing list of patrons who entered and never returned home, records that appear to be missing, and a proprietor who answers every question with a smile and nothing else. Among the unaccounted is the Chronicle’s own wellness correspondent, Marigold Fenn, who has filed nothing since the piece that praised the place.

The Vaelthir Hour: Stilver Lugrathe — The Man Behind the Office

Season 12, Episode 274

Sorin VanDenBerghe sits down with long-form correspondent Joey Vaelwick to discuss his three-day On Record interview with ORCM Chair Stilver Lugrathe.

Key to the City of Vaelthir Goes to Smallest Recipient on Record

In a first for the honour, civic officials have awarded the Key to the City of Vaelthir to Luna, a flood-relief volunteer the Office of Resource and Civil Management confirms is the smallest recipient in its history.

What Does When The Clocks Fell Silent Get Right and Wrong About the Silence?

The McGuire Group's landmark production is a Wexamour institution. As history, it is something else entirely.

The McGuire Group’s beloved When The Clocks Fell Silent returns to the Nascium Playhouse, and rather than review a production everyone already knows by heart, Ron Rudson turns his attention to the history it claims to retell.

One Night Only: When The Clocks Fell Silent Returns to the Nascium Playhouse

The McGuire Group brings their landmark production back for a single performance this June.

The McGuire Group’s beloved When The Clocks Fell Silent returns to the Nascium Playhouse for one night only on Tuesday, the 23rd of June.