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The Fourfold Hearth

Built three generations ago by a Lungan exile who fell for the strange, fourfold lights of the forest, The Fourfold Hearth began as a one-room shelter for traders and hunters. Maris Thorne inherited the place after saving the proprietor's life during a winter blizzard that overran the pass. Over time, the inn expanded upward to three stories to shelter more travelers and to provide the Seasonal Annex as a vantage point. The inn has long been a waypoint for those seeking safe passage to Lunga, and its ledger contains notes from caravans, smugglers, and a few scribbled pleas from lost lovers.

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The Fourfold Hearth

Built three generations ago by a Lungan exile who fell for the strange, fourfold lights of the forest, The Fourfold Hearth began as a one-room shelter for traders and hunters.

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Maris Thorne

Tavernkeeper

Maris Thorne
Half-elfRanger (Horizon Walker background)

Keeper's Species

Half-elf

History

Built three generations ago by a Lungan exile who fell for the strange, fourfold lights of the forest, The Fourfold Hearth began as a one-room shelter for traders and hunters. Maris Thorne inherited the place after saving the proprietor's life during a winter blizzard that overran the pass. Over time, the inn expanded upward to three stories to shelter more travelers and to provide the Seasonal Annex as a vantage point. The inn has long been a waypoint for those seeking safe passage to Lunga, and its ledger contains notes from caravans, smugglers, and a few scribbled pleas from lost lovers.

Quirks

Every autumn night the inn's lamps are joined by carved pumpkins and a faint, pleasant bioluminescent haze drifts through the common room. Patrons sometimes wake to find tiny phosphorescent spores clinging to their cloaks — harmless but oddly attractive to fae. The hearth bell rings in four tones depending on which corner of the forest's season is strongest that night.

Lore

Locals say the Fourfold Hearth sits where the forest's seam is thinnest — the meeting of four seasonal spirits. During fall, pumpkins and carved gourds draw the attention of small fae that trade trinkets for crumbs. Some maps mark the inn as a 'neutral hearth' where bargains made over its tables are honored by certain forest spirits. Old hunters swear that on certain nights the forest 'flips' corners and the inn's third-floor panes show a summer storm or a spring bloom for a few heartbeats; such events often foreshadow a change in the forest's balance and attract treasure-seekers and trouble alike.

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