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The Four Seasons Hearth

The Four Seasons Hearth was founded twenty-five years ago by Mara's mentor, a wandering forester who fell in love with the place where the forest seemed to keep all times of year at once. What began as a single-hearth shelter for wayward travelers grew into a three-story inn after Lunga's trade routes made the path more frequented. Over the years the Hearth became a neutral ground—guides, fey merchants, and diplomats use it as a meeting point. Mara took over when a winter-storm collapsed the mentor's outbuilding; she rebuilt with local stone and instituted the Pumpkin Ledger after a terrible storm separated travelers from their escorts.

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The Four Seasons Hearth

The Four Seasons Hearth was founded twenty-five years ago by Mara's mentor, a wandering forester who fell in love with the place where the forest seemed to keep all times of year at once.

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Mara Vellin

Tavernkeeper

Mara Vellin
Half-ElfRanger

Keeper's Species

Half-Elf

History

The Four Seasons Hearth was founded twenty-five years ago by Mara's mentor, a wandering forester who fell in love with the place where the forest seemed to keep all times of year at once. What began as a single-hearth shelter for wayward travelers grew into a three-story inn after Lunga's trade routes made the path more frequented. Over the years the Hearth became a neutral ground—guides, fey merchants, and diplomats use it as a meeting point. Mara took over when a winter-storm collapsed the mentor's outbuilding; she rebuilt with local stone and instituted the Pumpkin Ledger after a terrible storm separated travelers from their escorts.

Quirks

The hearth sings. On quiet nights the main hearth emits a faint harmonic hum that eases tempers and causes drowsy nostalgia—Mara insists it's the fireplace 'remembering the seasons.' Patrons who sleep in the third-floor suites sometimes claim dreams of the forest switching to a different season mid-sleep.

Lore

Old woodsong says the Four Seasons Forest is stitched by four old sisters of weather—one for each season—seated beneath a stone known as the Meridian Oak. The oak is rumored to drift in time depending on their moods, which is why travelers report pockets of spring and summer in winter and vice versa. The Hearth sits on a neutral thin spot where the sisters' changes are slowest, making it a favored place for bargains and exchanges between fey and mortals. Locals whisper that pumpkins used as lanterns are appeasement offerings: bright, hollowed beacons that remind the autumn sister of bounty rather than blight.

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