Orscs rest

Orsc's rest was founded twenty years ago by Orsc Thornback, a one-time caravan guard who laid down roots after a raid left him with more stories than coin. He purchased a rickety inn at the crossroads in Eveningstar and built the rugged taproom out of timbers taken from an old drover's wagon. The tavern grew with the road traffic from Arabel and Suzail and became known as the place a tired guard could sleep, an orchardman could sell a crate of apples, and a band of sellswords could spend a night's, or a week's, wages. Over the years the tavern earned a reputation for settling arguments with fists rather than parchments. After Orsc's quiet death, his adopted daughter, Bryn Thornback, and a string of hired bouncers kept the business honest enough for the Crown's purple dragons to keep a watchful eye.

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Orscs rest

Orsc's rest was founded twenty years ago by Orsc Thornback, a one-time caravan guard who laid down roots after a raid left him with more stories than coin.

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Orsc Thornback

Tavernkeeper

Orsc Thornback
HumanFighter

Keeper's Species

Human

History

Orsc's rest was founded twenty years ago by Orsc Thornback, a one-time caravan guard who laid down roots after a raid left him with more stories than coin. He purchased a rickety inn at the crossroads in Eveningstar and built the rugged taproom out of timbers taken from an old drover's wagon. The tavern grew with the road traffic from Arabel and Suzail and became known as the place a tired guard could sleep, an orchardman could sell a crate of apples, and a band of sellswords could spend a night's, or a week's, wages. Over the years the tavern earned a reputation for settling arguments with fists rather than parchments. After Orsc's quiet death, his adopted daughter, Bryn Thornback, and a string of hired bouncers kept the business honest enough for the Crown's purple dragons to keep a watchful eye.

Quirks

The tavern floor is perpetually sticky from spilled ale and orchard syrup. Orsc's Rest rings a battered brass bell to settle bets and start brawls; whoever can hold the bell aloft while singing the tavern's old road ballad wins a free slice of pie. Tressym cats are frequently fished from rafters and given free saucers; anyone who keeps one overnight owes a favor to Old Magda. Orsc keeps a single chair nailed to the bar for 'honored troublemakers' and rotates whose name is burned into the seat each spring.

Lore

Eveningstar is a quiet farming crossroads in northern Cormyr famed for its orchards and proximity to the Haunted Halls. Travelers favor the town for its market and for the short route through the Starwater Gorge. Locals swear winged cats haunt the roofs, and Orsc's rest keeps a battered bell hung from the lintel said to have been won from a war wizard's apprentice in a night of heavy drinking. The tavern trades heavily with caravaners moving goods between Arabel, High Horn, and Suzail, so talk in the taproom often reflects the wider politics of the Heartlands. Old Purple Dragon banners have been known to hang in the loft during festival nights.

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