By midmorning, Pathfinder’s Crumb sounds like flint—sharp whispers striking against sharper whispers, each one threatening to catch. Liora can feel it: fear turning into accusation, and accusation turning into something worse. In a village this small, words don’t stay small for long—and someone has to stop the fire before it reaches the driest parts of the room. 

~ N.W. Pathling

Born in lantern-light, shaped by road dust, and carried forward in rooms where people gathered before the first note was ever struck, the Quartet has long been known for music that feels less like performance and more like shared memory. Their songs have moved through hearth-rooms, market squares, village halls, and winter vigils, becoming part of the life of the world around them. They are sung to welcome strangers, to steady working hands, to hold grief without hurrying it, and to remind weary people why they keep going.

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~ N.W. Pathling

Book I: The First Pathfinder

Where it begins. Follow Crumb and his circle as they discover what it means to keep the roads in a valley where Faith and Fate intersect. 

Book II: The Way of the Pathfinders

The story continues with Liora the Candlekeeper and what happened a year later after the first book. We walk back into the Crossroads to see how they are handling it all.

Crumb's Year of Apprentice

Many years before book I we pick up with Crumb and his three apprentices over the course of a year we learn, along with them, what it means to be more than a baker.

Explore the World

Not sure where to begin? Explore the World of the Crossroads and beyond. If you want to learn about the world or brush back up on material to continue your journey.