Old name: Betwyn, meaning “Bed of White.”
This little town, population two hundred, is in the south-east of Ossyan (the south-eastern continent) and close to the edge of Cybrith Wood. Cybrith Port is close by.
This is where Ermen Manor is, the house where Duke Ermen of Little Beddin and its environs once lived with his servants and his foreign wife, Lady Helena, who was secretly a Witch. It was in the year 395, after the Great Ice Cataclysm, that the townsfolk formed a mob and dragged Lady Helena from the manor, trialled her for Witchcraft, and burned her at the stake. However, the Witch’s soul or essence was not completely destroyed, and resurfaced many years later somewhere else.
Ermen Manor is also where the Nighthunter, Logan Bartholom, wakes up at the start of the series — in the Duke’s old bedchamber, which has long been Haunted — having stayed there through a terrifying night trying to dissipate or destroy the Ghost lingering within. Unfortunately, the Ghost in question has eaten his personal memories, and he has no recollection of his past life or of his profession.
Little Beddin is also where Noran Cadwallader was born and where his childhood home is.
Main Imports: pila-grain, seaweed from Cybrith, wyllo-sprocket, danby, and other spices and herbs from Bedouin, cold-blooded reptiles, magic carpets, and books from the Thosean continent (though the King of Ossyan has outlawed magic).
Main Exports: domesticated bear-dogs and nymrafys-cats (which are usually wild), paper, inks of differing hues, mortar, bottled fog
Main Attractions: Ermen Manor (north part of the town), Noran Cadwallader’s old house (which is now a museum, no. 13, Pointles Walk, in the south-western part of town), the Great Library, Solway & Burke’s (an ancient building that used to be a temple but is now a bank), and the Newsraven Tower, where ravens deliver and dispatch messages.
How To Get There: There is a new-fangled railway line running into the town from Grastyn. Transportation to and from other parts of the continent is limited to indrykythyr-drawn cart or hiking on foot.
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