The Windfall Ghost Figurine - Sophia

Awarded Entity Number - SAN1208-WFGS

Chosen 9th of September, in the Year of Quiet Hauntings.

Placed into the Kingdom of Denmark

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.

Sophia is most often recorded after the first proper scattering of windfall fruit, when the orchard floor is no longer marked by one or two fallen apples, but by many. She is said to appear once the trees have begun yielding freely, as though some quiet threshold has been crossed.

Several Guild notes place her near the middle rows just after dawn, standing where the grass is flattened and the scent of bruised apples still hangs in the air. Where Sophia is found, the orchard is believed to have fully entered its autumn keeping.

Sophia the ghost figurine stands at 8 cm in height.