Terpi is a thin, long barony, weaving against a northeastern portion of the Barrowood. The Lors i Mata are a cadet branch of a cadet branch, with much more impressive cousins than remote nobility normally have, but those connections are distant and their hold on the barony routes through prowess and force of arms.
Vicenç's first memories are of the forest; the dark trees, and how light shines through them; the sounds, the feel of the wind. If you understand the forest, you can outwit the forest. One of his first toys is a bow; and when he finally manages to kill a fox his father has a portrait painted of him. The boy in the painting is smiling; Vicenç cannot remember what that feels like, and it is his last smiling portrait.