Mosshollow
Hodge Podge Art Studio
A world built one sculpture at a time
Across Mosshollow, giant snails carry traveling merchants between woodland settlements. Every route leaves a record. Every village adds a story.
A note from the historian
It is one old region within it: forest roads, river crossings, working settlements, and places the sensible know not to enter alone.
The animals here build, trade, keep records, and remember. This archive follows their routes through sculpture, field notes, and the stories gathered along the way.
Dispatches from the historian
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Field index
Merchants, quartermasters, couriers, newcomers, and one extremely food-motivated mode of transportation.
Patient, tired, and always thinking ahead, Marlow travels the eastern loop with Samuel. He keeps the cart stocked, records the road’s changing conditions, and tries to anticipate trouble before it arrives. Unfortunately, no amount of planning can entirely account for Samuel’s appetite. He shares the merchant rotation with Brisk.
Samuel pulls the merchant cart along the eastern loop, though his enthusiasm for travel depends heavily on the availability of Sammy Snaps. Late feedings can lead to slowing, circling, and considerable protest. He once ate his own feeding bag and stretched a three-month journey into eight. The cart runs on Samuel’s schedule.
Docket manages the supplies that keep the Brotherhood’s carts and depots working. Every crate, allocation, and damaged item must be accounted for. He takes that responsibility seriously: even when there is a perfectly good reason for something to leave the stores, there is still a perfectly good reason to record it.
Ricket manages the Brotherhood’s warehouses beneath the Ruined City, keeping the goods moving through them organized and accounted for. He is exceptionally good at his work. The merchant routes depend on supplies being ready when they are needed, and Ricket’s job is to make sure the warehouses can deliver.
Ramsey is the merchant assigned to Edmond, the oldest known giant snail. Their travels have become rather difficult to track, as Edmond sometimes gets turned around. With raven sightings arriving from across Mosshollow, “somewhere in the region” remains the most reliable description of their whereabouts.
The oldest known giant snail, Edmond is constantly drifting: the sleep-like state that lets giants rest while still moving. He cannot be bribed, bargained with, or persuaded to follow a predictable route. Ramsey, the only merchant who refused to give up on him, now maps their unexpected journeys through places folk haven’t visited in decades.
Brisk shares Samuel’s cart with Marlow, taking over when Marlow’s turn on the eastern loop ends. The rotation is meant to change every three months, though Samuel has been known to complicate the timetable. Between journeys, Brisk is based in the Ruined City. He is particularly fond of black walnuts.
Wink earned the Brotherhood’s respect during a severe blizzard, stepping forward from emergency stores to organize relief when its leader could not. She now handles its affairs with warmth, poise, and a firm understanding of its rules. Her kindness is sincere. So is her resolve when those rules are broken.
Thyme is a baker in Briarwood, known for her strawberry pie. Among the merchants, couriers, and officials filling the Brotherhood’s records, hers is a rather different contribution to life in Mosshollow. Not every important undertaking requires a ledger. Some require pastry.
Rosemary is a jam maker in Briarwood, best known for her huckleberry jam. Her place in this record belongs to the everyday work of feeding a settlement, rather than keeping a merchant route moving. A village needs both, though only one is especially good spread on bread.
Murray led the Brotherhood before Wink. During a severe blizzard, he froze in the crisis, leaving Wink to organize the relief effort. Afterward, he stepped down so she could take his place. His chapter in the Brotherhood’s history includes both that failure and his decision to make way for new leadership.
Rook is a Brotherhood courier and Marlow’s best friend. His work carries him between routes and settlements, delivering the news, warnings, and changing conditions that cannot wait for a merchant cart. Where Samuel’s progress is measured in months, a raven’s arrival can bring the information needed that very day.
The archive expands as new inhabitants are sculpted and documented.
Raccoons · Rats · Ravens
Rats manage the depots. Raccoons travel the roads. Ravens carry the warnings, news, and changing conditions that cannot wait for the carts to arrive.
The seventh rule is printed with particular confidence.
The historian’s journal
Every figure, wagon, lantern, and weathered board begins as raw material in Hodge Podge Art Studio.
From beyond the map
Mosshollow is an original sculpted world created by Liza Hodges of Hodge Podge Art Studio.