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Cardren is twelve, in Swampwood with his mother Rose and some of his older siblings to attend his grandfather Chet’s funeral. They came from Freeport as soon the letter arrived stating that Chet (Rose’s father) wasn’t going to live much longer. He died one day before they reached Swampwood. The funeral and reading of the will happened last week. Rose decided to stay for two or three weeks to comfort (and be comforted by) her family.
Cardren hears the music the night before they are supposed to leave.
His slightly older sister Eagwan (aged fourteen) and his cousin in Swampwood, Chet (same age as him, twelve) that he just met but formed a fast friendship with.
Rose has a history with the Piper. She’s forty-one now. She answered his music’s call twenty-nine or thirty years ago, when she was eleven. At eighteen, she fell in love with a troubadour, and left for Tarth. Eventually that romance failed, but she met Dreffil, a merchant from Freeport. They married and had six children. Cardren is the youngest. The family runs an arcana supply shop; specializing in spell components, alehemical supplies, and exotic materials.