Bree ButtonBoon

Known across Threadbare simply as the Button Collector, Bree ButtonBoon can be found wandering nearly anywhere in the fraying world, trading collected buttons for whatever wares — or stories — a Threadling is willing to part with. Her collection is vast, deliberately mismatched, and entirely without a system anyone else has ever been able to identify.

Threadlings who trade with Bree quickly learn that the buttons themselves are never quite the point. She asks after a button's history before she'll take it — where it came from, what it was sewn to, who lost it and how — and it's said that Bree remembers every single answer, for every button in her keeping. Some believe her collection is less a trade good than a private, portable archive: small fastenings holding the last thread of stories that might otherwise have come entirely undone.