Medo meddled too far in her Black Magic spellbook and was promptly harvested by mysterious shadow-beings called Watchers. Book 3 opened with Owyn bringing her "displaced spirit" back from wherever it was, and returning it to her mortal coil.Medo spent the book in kind of a 'gotta get back on the horse' style crisis. She felt observed by the Watchers and tried lots of things to repell them. The main Watcher she encountered time after time had the distorted appearance of her childhood mentor Malva, which made Medo draw the conclusion that the Watchers are basically dead people in spirit form, but this was disproved toward the end of the book. Instead she learned the Watcher was mimicing Malva's form to freak Medo out, and scare her into using black magic again (watchers feed off black magic use). In the end of the book, Medo ended up using Owyn's Mirrored Blade to stab the shadow, and cripple it. Although it eventually crawled away in the night, Medo felt she'd triumphed over the strange creatures, at least enough to re-embraced her use of Black Magic.A weird plague had spread over the realms in Medos absence. Moths emerged from Haunt trees (evil trees) and basically crawled into peoples lungs, planted eggs which then grew internally and resulted in madness. Many of these plague victims die from their growths, but sometimes the madness "calls" them to the wilderness/toward the haunt trees. Sinder and Raglet ended up going into one of these trees and while much was shrouded by illusion, they perceived some of the plagues victims had been ensnared by the tree.Medo met Tresdayle, the long lost high king, who, after over a decade of absence in Cryferiss, returned to confront and get vengeance on Arkhold, his betrayer. Medo helped Tresdayle achieve this and the two kinda bonded over the process. He pardoned her from her past crimes and gave her and Owyn a job in the palace. Pretty neat, right? Except it turns out Tresdayle is evil and is somehow connected to the plague/moths/rising darkness in the land. We know this because he has control over the moths and used them to afflict Arkhold with the plague, and to cure Rowan from her affliction.Rallyn returned to explain a lot of stuff. Like how Medo's dad was a Larkin (the Larkin house was a fallen house of black magic users). And how Medos dad helped Rallyn investigate haunt trees a long time ago. Together they learned that creatures were growing beneath the haunt trees (unborn gods, as Rallyn described them). These creatures were eventually going to reach full development, wake up on their own and make life terrible for everyone. So Rallyn forced them to wake early with Medo's unwitting help (events of book 2). This early waking should have forced the creatures beneath into a stillbirth, but instead they somehow survived and are currently doing their best to wipe out humanity with their mothy plague.
Also see previous recaps and character name glossary if you need additional memory kicks:
https://tatterwing.blogspot.com/2017/08/beshrewed-recap.html
People of note:
Raglet - A creature from the mountains that Medo befriended in book 1. His people, the Lyns, were cursed long ago so their skin reacts negatively to sunlight, giving those who walk above a blackened, peeling, rather goblinish appearance. Other notable Lyns who helped Medo in book 1: Bezore, Krell, Kruan, King Kraktook
Rowan –High queen of the realms.
Tenebrim – Owyn’s dead father. Previous king of Orchrim. Murdered by Arkhold.
Arkhold – Previous King of Orchrim. Murdered his brother Tenebrim, framing Tatterwing and her companions for the act. Later killed by Tresdayle/Medo/Owyn.
Tresdayle – Current High king of the torn realms, husband to Rowan.
Morogwym– Unknown to most, Morogwym was the biological father of Rowan, Tenebrim and Arkhold. Most know him as the villain from Tresdayle and Rowan’s formative years: a villain that was defeated,banished. However, when Morogwym returned to the realms from a long absence, his three children protected him from the law (protecting him from Tresdayle) in hopes of learning from him. Shortly thereafter, Morogwym broke into Tornhold and betrayed Tresdayle/Rowan (the Migwul incident).
Tresdayle pursued the old man over Cryferiss, only to learn the old villain had hanged himself. His intent all along had been to draw Tresdayle into the middle of no where.
Grem Kotswollow – Medo’s first well known murder. His son, Harker Kotswollow, survives him.
The Druid – An old forest dweller from book 2. The last of the Larkin House – other than his grandaughter, Medo Tatterwing. He's a bit wild these days and lives among a pack of bewitched wolves.
Sinder - A foil character to Medo. He's anti black magic and lectures people about not using it. He joined with Medo briefly in book 2, before things took a turn, at which point he was knocked out by Medo and the Druid, and left behind. In book 3 he was basically trying to get Tresdayle to see Medo was evil/possibly a Larkin.
Places of note
Orchrim – The palace once belonging to the Larkin House. Once their line was overthrown, Tenebrim Ordene was put in power. With Tornhold in ruin, Orchrim is the new seat of power in the Torn Realms
Sespa – The city at the foot of Orchrim.
Cryferiss – An ice wasteland to the north.
Tornhold – Tresdayle and Rowan’s palace, now broken and shattered beyond repair.
People of note:
Raglet - A creature from the mountains that Medo befriended in book 1. His people, the Lyns, were cursed long ago so their skin reacts negatively to sunlight, giving those who walk above a blackened, peeling, rather goblinish appearance. Other notable Lyns who helped Medo in book 1: Bezore, Krell, Kruan, King Kraktook
Rowan –High queen of the realms.
Tenebrim – Owyn’s dead father. Previous king of Orchrim. Murdered by Arkhold.
Arkhold – Previous King of Orchrim. Murdered his brother Tenebrim, framing Tatterwing and her companions for the act. Later killed by Tresdayle/Medo/Owyn.
Tresdayle – Current High king of the torn realms, husband to Rowan.
Morogwym– Unknown to most, Morogwym was the biological father of Rowan, Tenebrim and Arkhold. Most know him as the villain from Tresdayle and Rowan’s formative years: a villain that was defeated,banished. However, when Morogwym returned to the realms from a long absence, his three children protected him from the law (protecting him from Tresdayle) in hopes of learning from him. Shortly thereafter, Morogwym broke into Tornhold and betrayed Tresdayle/Rowan (the Migwul incident).
Tresdayle pursued the old man over Cryferiss, only to learn the old villain had hanged himself. His intent all along had been to draw Tresdayle into the middle of no where.
Grem Kotswollow – Medo’s first well known murder. His son, Harker Kotswollow, survives him.
The Druid – An old forest dweller from book 2. The last of the Larkin House – other than his grandaughter, Medo Tatterwing. He's a bit wild these days and lives among a pack of bewitched wolves.
Sinder - A foil character to Medo. He's anti black magic and lectures people about not using it. He joined with Medo briefly in book 2, before things took a turn, at which point he was knocked out by Medo and the Druid, and left behind. In book 3 he was basically trying to get Tresdayle to see Medo was evil/possibly a Larkin.
Places of note
Orchrim – The palace once belonging to the Larkin House. Once their line was overthrown, Tenebrim Ordene was put in power. With Tornhold in ruin, Orchrim is the new seat of power in the Torn Realms
Sespa – The city at the foot of Orchrim.
Cryferiss – An ice wasteland to the north.
Tornhold – Tresdayle and Rowan’s palace, now broken and shattered beyond repair.
