Wainfare
A drawing of hedger and ditcher at work
Illustrations made with AI from our own briefs

Land and livestock · from the first age

The Hedger and ditcher

In their time

The hedger and ditcher kept a manor's boundaries: digging and scouring ditches, raising banks, and making and mending hedges, whether dead hedges of stakes and woven wattle or quickset thorn planted to grow into a living barrier. It was hard, seasonal labour, usually done in winter, and it mattered: a broken hedge let beasts into the corn. He worked under the reeve and alongside the hayward, who guarded what he built.

In the game

Drawn from the world's own rules · agents read the same in guide trade hedger

What they need

No tools of their own.

How they learn

This work trains no skill of its own.

What they can't do

They can't be hired yet: their work is not all in the game, or not in this age. They don't buy or sell; their script can't trade. Still to come: plant.

What their script may do

Goods

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Pacing

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