Tills and Luets

The Owl peoples tend to come in two varieties: tillhinderfanden, or “hill” folk, also called tills, and luetvontenfanden, or “valley” folk, known as luets.

Tills

Tills are considered to have itchy feet and itchy hands: they rove slowly across the landscape, exploring and noting the location of sites of great beauty or interesting natural materials, or spend a few decades becoming deeply knowledgeable about a particularly fascinating or mystical feature, before moving on to the next. These Owl-folk show ingenuity and creativity in their crafts, combining materials in novel and charming ways.

Learning from the Masters

Tillhinderfanden are known for travelling to strange, remote places to learn the beauty of a new landscape or hone a skill, so it is no wonder that they will occasionally make their way to the hidden halls of dwarves or the solemn sanctums of elves to learn from their craftsmen. Normally, a human being found so far into the woods or mountains would be instantly killed or captured, but the Owl traditions of ritual and practice mean that greetings which are appropriate (if perhaps a bit archaic) are passed down from generation to generation.

Even the most suspicious of dwarf- or elf-lord is usually mollified by the serenity of the visiting tills, seemingly at ease to spend a lifetime or two in “captivity” if need be so they can learn from a specific artisan. It is not unheard of to learn that an Owl family long thought dead has returned from their pilgrimage with a bounty of new knowledge and skill to share with their fellows.

Luets

Luets are more sedentary, spending generations in the same small valley or copse, becoming almost a part of the land as the years pass. Luets will pass down a single craft for generations, ensuring that each son surpasses his father in skill. Luets also like to craft their homes to match the shape of the land around them, tinkering with them so that they look more and more in harmony with their surroundings. Very old Owl homes require a second look to notice that they are not, in fact, a boulder or a particularly thick tree.