• one of the Four Farms• goats and cattle• Brambles known as plain-spoken and firm• produces milk, cheese, hides, horn, bone, tallow, and manure• home to Ruell, Miksen, Jes, and Curn• Ruell Bramble is matriarch and hideworker• Jes and Curn serve as herd midwives• Law of Last Cut: whoever makes the final stroke that kills an animal cannot eat from that animal• custom practiced “not for guilt, but balance”