PUBLIC INHABITANT RECORD
RESIDENT DOSSIER / The Middle Distances · northern rootlands
Bristlemoth
A compact, unsettlingly adorable winged critter whose oversized stare, needle-mouth, and layered fur make it feel both vulnerable and feral at once.
- Known location
- Glassroot Conservatory
- World relationship
- LIVES IN
- Occupation
- Not publicly recorded
PUBLIC CHARACTER RECORD
What is known
A squat little creature with huge rectangular eyes, two thin head-feelers, small horn nubs, broad veined wings, and a heavy curtain of ragged fur spilling down around its face and chest. Its mouth is packed with tight sharp teeth, but the overall impression is less predator than strange survivor: a watchful, soft-bodied oddity built from fluff, tension, and stubborn presence.
KNOWN WORLD LOCATION
Glassroot Conservatory
LIVES INORDINARY LIFE HERE
Occupation not publicly recorded
Björgvin selected The Ravelgreen as this resident's home after reviewing the studio's provisional residence recommendation.
WORLD EFFECTNo consequence is established by this residence alone.
NEARBY ON THE CURRENT SURVEY
The district does not end at this record.
These are geographic neighbours, not implied friends or allies.
Canopy MarketMurrikA colossal, soft-bodied trader whose unsettling face reads as confrontation until he starts talking business; he is all appetite, patience, and shrewd social pressure.
Settling GroveMatri VeyA serene, petalled contemplative whose authority comes from stillness, symmetry broken by soft organic folds, and an unusual dependence on a living mat that carries him where his own body prefers not to hurry.
Mossbridge TerraceBrackenviceA rooted, soft-bodied plant-creature with a stern mask-like face and a burr-thick lower body, built for patient practical work where overgrowth has to be managed without killing it.
ARCHIVE EVIDENCE / FIRST RECORDED SIGHTING
Before the record, there was a drawing.
This is the original hand-made source from which Bristlemoth entered the Living Atlas. It is preserved unchanged and shown beside—not beneath—the approved interpretation.
- Creator
- Björgvin
- Evidence class
- Original drawing
- Archive state
- Public provenance record
Original line retained. Corrections belong to the hand that made them.
COMPLETE APPROVED CHARACTER SHEET
One inhabitant, seen from several directions.
The approved sheet remains available as a visual record. It supports the inhabitant; it does not need to dominate every encounter.
COMPLETE PHYSICAL & CHARACTER RECORDOpen the detailed archive file
PHYSICAL RECORD
A presence before an explanation
- Silhouette
- Front-heavy and symmetrical overall, with a round crowned head, wing-spread shoulders, a shaggy tapering chest mass, and oversized blocky forepaws planted forward. The eyes and wings make it look broader than it is tall.
- Scale
- Reads as small and low to the ground, likely housecat-sized or smaller. The head is oversized relative to the body, the paws are thick and blunt, and the wings appear powerful enough to feel slightly too large for the torso.
- Material
- Short velvet facial fur over warmer skin tones, heavier chest fur in rust and ember gradients, wing membranes flushed with apricot and rose-copper translucency, horn sheaths in muted gold-brown, and subtle darker mottling around the mouth and eye rims.
- Colour
- #F6C7B6, #D9896A, #A84E3A, #6C2F2F, #C6A66B
OCCUPATION & CHARACTER
Occupation not publicly recorded
It presents itself as menacing and untouchable, yet its strongest drive is not domination but safety.
WANTS
- a place where it can perch or settle without being handled
- predictable patterns in its surroundings
- to investigate unfamiliar things at its own pace
FEARS
- sudden grasping or looming attention
- being cornered with no escape upward or sideways
- loud disturbances close to its face
HABITS
- freezing completely before deciding whether to approach or flee
- testing the air and mood with its head-feelers
- puffing out its fur to seem larger when uneasy
- keeping its forepaws planted while the rest of it shifts with tension
SOURCE ANCHORS
- The enormous blocky eyes that dominate the face
- Two distinct upright head-feelers/antennae plus the small horned points at the crown
- The tightly packed sharp-toothed mouth centered beneath a small nose
- The layered, dripping-looking facial and chest fur
- Large side-set veined wings tucked behind the body