The Windfall Ghost Figurine - Halrik

There are old orchards where fallen fruit is never gathered after dusk.

The first windfalls of autumn are said to mark the point at which the orchard begins keeping its own account. Fruit found beneath the trees before morning may be taken. Fruit heard falling after dark is best left where it lies.

The Guild records the Windfall Ghosts as appearing shortly after the first fruit drops, most often between the outer rows where the grass has grown long. They are rarely seen arriving. By morning they are simply there, standing among the fallen apples as though they have been counting them.

Whether they guard the orchard, claim its offerings, or merely wait for something else to arrive has never been established.

Halrik is most often recorded after the orchard has endured a long spell of wind, when the upper branches have been stripped unevenly and fallen fruit lies scattered well beyond the usual rows.

Several Guild accounts describe him appearing where the ground shows no clear pattern to the fall, as though the orchard has been disturbed by something moving through it rather than merely across it.

He is regarded as a keeper of the restless harvest. Where Halrik is found, the older records advise against assuming the wind has finished simply because the trees have gone still.

Halrik the ghost figurine stands at 8 cm in height.