💛 Character Directory
Every field guide needs a census. Fairhaven is a small island with a large heart — roughly thirty residents, each with their own routines, opinions, and (whisper it) relationship values you can nurture like seedlings. Below, your pressed-and-labelled catalogue of everyone you’ll meet, grouped by where they tend to take root.
Talk to everyone, every day, the way you’d water every pot on the sill. For raising those bonds deliberately, see the Friendship Guide; for courting, the Romance Guide; and for what to tuck into your basket before knocking on doors, Gift Preferences.
Residents marked ♥ are romanceable — all eight of them. Fairhaven’s dating pool has one quiet rule: every candidate is single, with no relatives on the island.
The Wylde Farm
| Resident | Role | Field notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tara Wylde | Protagonist; farmer & witch-in-training | That’s you, dear reader. Newly arrived to help your grandmother — and about to inherit rather more than a farm. |
| Hazel Wylde | Tara’s grandmother; Elder of the coven | 82 years of wisdom and mischief. Fairhaven’s roots run through her. |
| Cleocatra | Cat | Regal, as the name insists. See Familiars for why the cats of this island deserve close study. |
Shopkeepers & Tradespeople
| Resident | Role | Field notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lina Dahl-Johnson | Owner of Dahl General Store; High Priestess of the coven | 40. Runs the town’s pantry by day; presides over rather older business by night. |
| Parker Johnson | Helps run the General Store | Lina’s husband, and father to the island’s twin whirlwinds. |
| Kai Hoapili ♥ | Merchant | Friendly to a fault. Washed up in Fairhaven after a surfing accident — Amira patched him up, and he decided the island suited him. |
| Kim Izumi ♥ | Butcher | 28, non-binary (they/them), and one of the newest residents in town. |
| Natalia Kuznetsova | Blacksmith | Keeps the island’s tools sharp. Visit before your watering can gives out — see Shops. |
| Angus Seton | Owner of Seton’s Bakery | 28. Engaged to Francis when you arrive; the pair play key roles in the early story. |
| Francis Calderon | Town jeweler; runs the Jewelry Box | 28, next door to his fiancé’s bakery. Convenient for anniversaries. |
| Sophia Moretti | Runs the diner | The island’s hearth away from home. |
| Damon Mthembu-Haas ♥ | Runs Fairhaven’s bar | 24, originally from Johannesburg; took over the bar when his parents moved back to South Africa. |
| Violet Miranda | Owner of Violet’s Violets, the flower shop | 24, shop just beside Town Hall. A botanist’s natural ally. |
| Otto Soft | Village chief; Soft and Son’s Fish & Tackle | 35, Bruno’s son. Civic duty and fishing tackle, under one roof. |
Around Town
| Resident | Role | Field notes |
|---|---|---|
| Amira Syed ♥ | Doctor; coven member | Flirty, brilliant, she/her. The island’s health is in excellent hands. |
| Cameron Conner ♥ | Leader of the League of the Conscious Mind | 34, a former child actor turned hyper-religious community leader. A complicated bloom. |
| Bruno Soft | Otto’s father | Usually found near the beach and the bar; the “Soft” in Soft and Son’s. |
| Marty Emerson | Rancher | His ranch sits right beside Thomas’s farm. |
| Thomas Lightfoot | Farmer | 40, the stoic sort. Tends the farm next door to Marty’s ranch. |
| Shelby Demeter | Seer; lives in the woods | A mysterious old man with one green eye, one blue, who speaks in riddles. Listen anyway. |
| Sebastián Miranda | Notes pending further study | Often spotted at the bar of an evening. This specimen resists easy classification — observations ongoing. |
Kids & Critters
| Resident | Role | Field notes |
|---|---|---|
| Emmi Johnson | Resident prankster (twin) | 10 years old, daughter of Lina and Parker. |
| Finn Johnson | Resident prankster (the other twin) | 10 years old, son of Lina and Parker. Where one twin is, trouble — and the other twin — follows. |
the twins know every shortcut on the island. befriend accordingly ❀
Later Arrivals & Ravenwood Hollow
Fairhaven’s population is not a fixed pressing — new faces arrive as the seasons and updates turn.
| Resident | Role | Field notes |
|---|---|---|
| Eury Sinclair ♥ | Hair salon owner | Moves to town in Year 2 and opens a salon. Worth the wait. |
| Giva Joshi ♥ | Meteorologist | Smart, a little awkward, endearingly shy — on the island to study why its weather is so famously quirky. We wish her the very best of luck with that. 🌙 |
| Westley ♥ | Bookseller of Ravenwood Hollow | Grew up in Alaska. See below before reading further. |
⚠️ Spoilers — Ravenwood Hollow. Ravenwood Hollow is a hidden community added in a major update, and its secrets are best discovered in the wild. Among them: Westley is a werewolf, and he came to the island seeking a cure.
A Note on the Coven
You will learn early on that some residents keep a second, moonlit occupation. Hazel serves as Elder, Lina as High Priestess, and Amira among the members — the full roster, and how to unmask each member, we keep pressed in Who Are the Witches?, where spoilers belong.
say hello to everyone before bed — a habit worth more than gold ❀