Story footnotes for easy reference

[Pumpkin]

Lonely Paper Star
Camille is southwest of Lake Arna, at the edge of the forest, by the fork in the river.
She used to be well-traveled and rich years ago, but now lives on borrowed land and breeds chocobos.
Takka is her eldest chocobo. No one rents or buys him because he limps due to one leg being longer than the other.
She heard about the festival and comments how the Kingdom made her poor because of something she did.

Kossage
Haruko is near the ocean, speaking to a mysterious woman who says she will be leaving her until the day of the damned.
Haruko wakes up confused near an alley.
Two men harass her and she says something about them not taking her back and she runs away.
She thinks about her 'true' form, which is not human.
She sees a person of a different race and thinks it is a demon.

Nagul is the man Haruko saw and thought was a demon. He pulls a rickshaw and doesn't seem to enjoy his job.
He is a Doban.

Jinx
Sigrid is working for a fisherman named Bates.
She is a 13 year old girl who lives in an orphanage in Naithe owned by a woman named Ms. Pan.
Sigrid wants to go out to sea with Bates, but he says it's no place for her. She dreams of having her own ship to explore the unknown.
She notices a strange blue creature in the water.

Tasura
Xilka was up disoriented in unfamiliar waters.
He realizes he is in unfamiliar territory and clutches his surfacing knife as he goes to explore the land.

plef
Jhera, coming from Steel, the capitol of the Empire of Kur, is delivering a message from the Emperor to a rebellion.
He can fly, and also has telepathic abilities, which he uses to convey a cease and desist message to the rebellion.
As he is flying back he is hit by a pulse of air. When he straightens himself, he finds himself in a new, unfamiliar city with unfamiliar races of people.
He overhears about the festival.

AlaynaMae
Cohen explores the city, disconcerted by the new races of people.
Cohen encounters a bear, who is also confused by the goings-on of the bustling city.

Agent Proto
Radley is sailing the Deeps in a red ship called the Lost Soul. He has been out for over a week, and braved a storm yesterday.
He sees a beach line with a few small huts and theorizes they are near a group of small islands to the north of Sedorra.
He and his crew are excited to be on land again.

shion
Kathvi arrives in Lucrecia. Is insecure and out of her element.
She can't remember people from her homeland.
A stranger approaches and speaks to her as she is trying to work up the courage to ask someone for information.