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Thomas Feld is the orchard farmer the party met on the road between Umbrafall and Eldwythe in session 11, with his wife Mara and his eight-year-old daughter Lysa, struggling with a broken cart axle. Caelumn repaired the axle with a nat-20 Investigation. Thomas warned the party explicitly to “keep the theatrics to a minimum” near Aurelian territory (“you might go missing”), confirmed that Aurelia and Vhal’Zarim hunted the chromatic dragons together long ago and that there are “no chromatic dragons left on this side of the world to find,” and mentioned having seen a dragon flying once toward Palathorn [3]. His daughter Lysa later (in s12) chatted with the party about “berry figgets” and “big pigs” — the warning the party ignored, leading to the owlbear ambush.
Overview
Thomas Feld is the orchard farmer the party met on the road between Umbrafall and Eldwythe in session 11. He travels with his wife Mara and his eight-year-old daughter Lysa, and was struggling with a broken cart axle when the party arrived. Caelumn inspected the cart on a nat-20 Investigation, diagnosed it as crackable-but-reparable, and helped fix it.
Thomas is the campaign’s most informed civilian on the Aurelian cultural background, despite being far from Aurelia and a non-political farmer. He warned the party to be careful with magic in the open (“near Aurelian territory, would keep the theatrics to a minimum if I was you”; “Or you might go missing”). He volunteered the lore that Aurelia and Vhal’Zarim hunted the chromatic dragons together long ago and there are “no chromatic dragons left on this side of the world to find” — a piece of information that, combined with Sevryn’s redirection misfiring in s14, suggests the campaign’s egg-quest may need to head west or be re-conceived.
He has seen a dragon fly over once, toward Palathorn [2].
Appearance and demeanour
Orchard-farmer build. Friendly, suspicious of authority, bluntly honest. Doesn’t dress up his warnings.
History / role in the campaign
Session 11 — cart and warning
The party walked into Thomas, his wife Mara, and his daughter Lysa with a broken cart axle. Caelumn repaired the axle. The eight-year-old chattered to the party (one of the campaign’s livelier child NPCs); Thomas exchanged information.
“Listen, friend, I appreciate the help, but you’re near Aurelion territory. Would keep the theatrics to a minimum if I was you. Or you might go missing.” — Thomas Feld, s11
“All I know is people with magic rarely make it. Unless you’re part of the church, I guess.” — Thomas Feld, s11
“I don’t quite like what they did with those dragons back in the day.” — Thomas Feld on Aurelia + Vhal’Zarim, s11
He warned of “berry figgets” and “big pigs” — phrasing his daughter Lysa repeated. The party ignored the warning that night and were ambushed by three owlbears.
Session 12 — orchard scene (ambiguous)
Per the s12 recap, the orchard scene with the apple-pickers and the daughter named Lysa is described as “the same Feld-style family on the road” — but the s12 NPC list flags the orchard man as unnamed in that scene. The campaign bible’s open-issues note records a small canonical ambiguity: either there are two Feld-adjacent farming families, or the s12 orchard scene is the same family in a different setting. The s12 recap leans toward “same family”. Ruin stole three apples; Caelumn paid five copper to settle.
Relationships
- Lysa — eight-year-old daughter. The chatty one. The one who warned about big pigs.
- Mara — wife.
- The party — owed thanks for the axle repair; owed thanks for the warning he gave them.
Notable quotes
“Just make sure if you camp tonight, remember to stay away from berry figgets. Big pigs live there, and they don’t share.” — Thomas Feld, s11
Disposition toward the party
Friendly, helpful, plain-spoken.
Status as of session 16
Alive, presumed still on the road or in the orchard. Off-screen since s11. Vulnerability to Aurelian interrogation if any agent traces the party’s contact with him is a hanging concern (per the s11 recap: “the party is now identifiably visible to anyone who paid attention to the Felds’ family”).