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The Fox and Lantern Inn

The inn began as a one-room waystation built by Merris Thorn's grandmother fifty years ago to shelter farmers and hunting parties traveling the ridge road. Over the decades it was enlarged into a cozy inn after Merris, a former militia swordswoman, returned with coin earned as a caravan guard. The lantern over the door was forged from a fallen merchant's brazier and was meant to guide lost travelers home. Small changes through the years include the stone hearth rebuilt after a winter chimney collapse and the cellar expanded to store ale for the entire village during the last bad harvest.

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The Fox and Lantern Inn

The inn began as a one-room waystation built by Merris Thorn's grandmother fifty years ago to shelter farmers and hunting parties traveling the ridge road.

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Merris Thorn

Tavernkeeper

Merris Thorn
HumanFighter

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The inn began as a one-room waystation built by Merris Thorn's grandmother fifty years ago to shelter farmers and hunting parties traveling the ridge road. Over the decades it was enlarged into a cozy inn after Merris, a former militia swordswoman, returned with coin earned as a caravan guard. The lantern over the door was forged from a fallen merchant's brazier and was meant to guide lost travelers home. Small changes through the years include the stone hearth rebuilt after a winter chimney collapse and the cellar expanded to store ale for the entire village during the last bad harvest.

Quirks

At dusk the innkeeper rings a small brass bell and calls 'Last tale, last ale' even when the crowd is thin. Patrons toss a single copper into a worn iron box by the hearth to 'buy' the night's storyteller a dram; the box is emptied into a jar labeled 'Wanderers' Good'. A large ginger cat named Kindle circulates the room, curling on ledgers and judging the cleanliness of coin. The innkeeper whistles a particular three-note tune to summon help from the stable boy or to signal the back stairs in emergencies.

Lore

Locals call the inn 'The Fox and Lantern' after a fox that once led a lost child to the front door in a snowstorm. Elders tell a half-true tale that the inn stands above the remnants of a small shrine to a road-guardian spirit, and that on windless nights a faint singing can be heard near the linden tree behind the stable. Superstitious patrons tuck a coin beneath their pillow on the first night in a private room for safe passage on the road.

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