Thorn & Tumble: Books, Maps & Oddities
Est. 2025 • Human Wizard (lore-focused)
Thorn & Tumble: Books, Maps & Oddities
Elias keeps a battered pocket watch that he consults mid-conversation, often interrupting himself to 'note the light' for his records. He greets customers with ...
Shopkeeper
Elias Thorn, a Human Wizard (lore-focused) (Lvl 3)
Keeper's Species
Human
Shop Inventory
(16)A well-thumbed guidebook full of practical tips for newcomers to Neverwinter: common districts, lodging, taverns, basic customs, and warnings about rowdy neighborhoods.
A sturdy volume tracing Neverwinter's founding, notable families, and key events up through recent decades. Includes a fold-out lineage chart and reproductions of old edicts.
A dense treatise combining geology, recorded eruptions, and folk stories centered on Mount Hotenow and its impact on the surrounding countryside.
A compact pamphlet favored by merchants and guards, containing short entries on local laws, tolls, and informal neighborhood tips.
A collection of folktales and ballads from settlements around Neverwinter and the Sword Coast — often told with colorful, western-esque frontier illustrations.
A rare manuscript blending tactical notes, plant identification, and sketches useful to wilderness travelers. Some pages have pressed flora.
A pamphlet compiling eyewitness accounts of a minor ashfall and tremor near Mount Hotenow. Good for gossip and quick facts.
A slim book describing the theory and verbage of a few common cantrips, with marginal notes on etiquette in frontier towns.
A fragile, annotated facsimile of old municipal decrees that mention border markers and lost watch posts. Highly sought by historians or those hunting old claims.
A folded, hand-colored map showing Neverwinter, the River Never, nearby settlements, roads, and notable topographical features up to 50 miles out.
A merchant's binder with routes, caravan stops, approximate travel times and hazards. Contains notes about fords, tolls and safe houses.
A single-use magical scroll that allows the reader to understand the literal meaning of any spoken language for one hour.
Simple leather-bound journal with 80 pages, suitable for sketching maps or noting passages.
A glass inkwell (holds about a week's worth of writing for a scholar) and a sturdy quill.
A small bottle of ink made to resist water and fading — favored by mapmakers and scribes in the frontier.
A small carved wagon wheel used as a talisman by travelers for safe roads. Often sold to superstitious caravans.
Elias Thorn
Shop Atmosphere
“Elias keeps a battered pocket watch that he consults mid-conversation, often interrupting himself to 'note the light' for his records. He greets customers with a whittled wooden nickel stamped with a thorn; customers who accept it receive a small discount (usually 1 sp) on trivial items. The shop smells of ink, sage, and a faint whiff of campfire; a wagon wheel chandelier and cactus-shaped bookends lend a western frontier atmosphere. Elias will barter lore for chores: cleaning a shelf or fetching a specific map can shave a few silver off a book's price. He is habitually evasive about where he acquired some rare texts, saying only 'roads have mouths'.”
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