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The Hearth & Hallow

The Hearth & Hallow began twenty years ago when a retired merchant and his halfling wife converted their ground-floor home into an inn to shelter passing traders. Over time it became a community hub: nights of storytelling, refuge in winter storms, and a place where farmers, sailors and apprentices trade news. The inn survived a small raid years ago when townsfolk banded together to protect it; Mara bought it from the merchant's family and kept the same welcoming policy that helped it endure.

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The Hearth & Hallow

The Hearth & Hallow began twenty years ago when a retired merchant and his halfling wife converted their ground-floor home into an inn to shelter passing traders.

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Mara Underbough

Tavernkeeper

Mara Underbough
HalflingCommoner (innkeeper)

Keeper's Species

Halfling

History

The Hearth & Hallow began twenty years ago when a retired merchant and his halfling wife converted their ground-floor home into an inn to shelter passing traders. Over time it became a community hub: nights of storytelling, refuge in winter storms, and a place where farmers, sailors and apprentices trade news. The inn survived a small raid years ago when townsfolk banded together to protect it; Mara bought it from the merchant's family and kept the same welcoming policy that helped it endure.

Quirks

Mara always pours a bit of her own dram into the first mug she fills each night 'for the hearth spirits'. A greedy grey cat named Fig perches on a specific chair and will insist on sitting on the lap of any newcomer. The inn's lamps are all numbered and kept in an odd order only Mara understands.

Lore

Locals claim the hearth was lit the same night a ground-floor sealing stone was placed; older villagers swear a small iron key was hidden in the wall, meant to open a 'safe' beneath the hearth. Children are told that the hearth has a spirit that keeps travelers warm if they leave a scrap of cloth by the bricks. Some whisper the old merchant once hid a coin-hoard in the orchard to fund an escape that never came — and that a small part of the map is painted into the seam of Mara's apron.

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