"Uncle"

A taciturn and gruff member of the household in which Westersloe Winterbough V grew up. On the surface, he does much of the hard work in maintaining the persimmon orchard that is the Winterbough family business. However, he also attends to the Elfliness of Winterbough, in part by revealing to him the Voice of the Forest. In "Speaking Volumes," Winterbough recalls that the first book he was ever given was a collection of Elf-lore that was painstakingly written by paw by "Uncle."

Upon the death of Stella Winterbough, a grief-stricken "Uncle," after burying the roe-doe beneath a cairn in the orchard, goes for a Walk, and is never seen again. Only later is it revealed to Winterbough that "Uncle" was not, in fact, a Winterbough, but the last male member of the Rosebush-Aspen clan, the de facto ruling family of Elfhame.