Nell

Elsewhere in the Codex

Who: Sister Orla (Tender healer), Harl (Evane silversmith), the Measure Post clerk, Quill (Facet glass-cutter), Nell (Facet glyph-giver).

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Act 1: The Sallow Road › Chapter 3: Halfway

What happens: The two rows face each other across the Middle Market. The Pale Row is pale blue awnings, symmetrical stalls and very polite prices; the Amber Row is mismatched glass, amber lamps and haggling. Nell sits at a table giving away chalk copies of Facet glyphs to anyone who asks, and the protagonist learns that a copy fizzles until it's traced from a real fragment ("The glyph's free. The tracing's up to you."). Sister Orla is treating bargefolk for cuts from "something in the river", the first rumour of the Wyrm.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Act 1: The Sallow Road › Chapter 3: Halfway

Content to make: Act1_Halfway_Orla, _Harl, _MeasurePost, _Quill, _Nell, each with a before-the-Wyrm and after-the-Wyrm part, as the villagers have per stage. Taking a chalk copy from Nell sets took.chalk_copy 1 (rep.facets +5). Shops: section 4.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Act 1: The Sallow Road › Chapter 3: Halfway

District

The Amber Row

What's there

Facet stalls under amber lamps: Quill's Cut Glass, Nell's free glyph table.

Mood

Mismatched, loud, haggling.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Halfway › Districts

NPC

Nell

Where

Amber Row

Role

Gives away chalk copies of Facet glyphs.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Halfway › People

Shop

Nell's table

Keeper

Nell

Sells

Chalk copies of Facet glyphs (free; they fizzle until traced from a real fragment)

Price

0

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Halfway › Shops

Flag

took.chalk_copy

Values

1

Meaning

Took one of Nell's chalk copies.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Flags

Nell's chalk copies: a Facet who gives away glyph copies that don't work alone. A later quest: someone in Halfway traced a copy over a real fragment and it worked, and the Pale Row wants to know where the fragment came from.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Hooks for side content

Names that collided across walkthroughs were changed in VEL-63: the Halfway gate's Facet is Wren (Pell is Act 2's sealed runner), the Amber Row's glyph-giver is Nell (Mott is Act 3's Undermere door), and the Waymaker drover on the Sallow Road is Jory (Jory is Act 3's old bell-ringer). Halfway and road names now: Hollin Tace, Sef, Wren, Bram Tolley, Hob, Orla, Harl, Quill, Nell, Ulla Stroud, Dorrit Mallow, Jory. The currency is copper, items use the items tab's catalogue ids, and enemies (glint, tamsin_ring, sallow_wyrm) use the bestiary's.

From Walkthrough: Prologue and Act 1 › Notes for the continuity pass (VEL-63)

[ ] 24. Names that clashed across acts. Settled for now by VEL-63, confirm. Pim, Mott and Pell each named two different people, and Act 2's Bryn sat next to Act 3's Brin. Recommendation: the renames this pass made: Act 1's drover is Jory, its Amber Row glyph-giver Nell and its gate Facet Wren; Act 2's glyph-hunter is Rusk; Act 3's Stilled child and cart-driver are Pip and Teg. Pim (the bell-ringer), Mott (the Undermere door) and Pell (the sealed runner) keep their names. An alternative worth a thought: make the Halfway gate's Facet the Pell who is sealed in Act 2, so the un-teaching seals a face the player knows. Sources: walkthrough-act-1.md § 12; walkthrough-act-2.md Q14; walkthrough-act-3.md § 18 Q12.

From Walkthrough: Act 4 › Open questions for Ray, all tabs › Story and cast

[ ] 101. Nell's chalk copies. Act 1's hook says someone traced one of the Amber Row's chalk copies over a real fragment and it worked. Every Facet glyph is split, taught, reflected or warp-born, so there is no whole Facet fragment for a copy to lie over. Recommendation (new): drop the twist, as the Side Quests tab does; the copies stay a lesson that a shape is not a spell. Sources: walkthrough-act-1.md § 12; side-quests.md region 3, Chalk on the Far Hand.

From Walkthrough: Act 4 › Open questions for Ray, all tabs › Tech and production

Names. Characters who shared a name across acts were renamed: Act 1's gate Facet is Wren, its glyph-giver Nell and its drover Jory; Act 2's hunter is Rusk; two of Act 3's Stilled are Pip and Teg.

From Walkthrough: Act 4 › Continuity notes › What is now the same everywhere

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