"Migwam" in the old Dengar tongue means "grandmother" or "wise mother." Before the queen came, this grove in the northern reaches of Old One's Wood was the Dengar's holiest site—a ring of ancient grandmother-trees where ancestors' ashes were scattered and their spirits were said to linger. Dengar would make pilgrimages here to seek guidance, and the ancestors would answer through rustling leaves and prophetic dreams.
Now the queen has claimed the grove as a shrine to herself. She visits monthly, performing rituals she claims channel the ancestors' blessing upon her reign. The grandmother-trees have been hung with silk banners bearing her image, and an altar of white stone stands at the grove's center where she receives "the ancestors' wisdom."
But the ancestors have gone silent. Since the fogs came, no pilgrim has received a true vision at Migwam. The leaves do not rustle with messages. The dreams are empty. The refugees believe the ancestors have withdrawn in disgust—or that the queen's presence has driven them away entirely. Some fear something worse: that the fogs have trapped the ancestors too, binding them as they bind the living.