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The Lantern and Lute

The Lantern and Lute was opened thirty years ago by a travelling minstrel who settled when he fell in love with the town and its harvests. The building uses stones from an old watchtower that once stood on the hill, said to have kept the road safe in older, darker years. The current keeper inherited the inn after the minstrel's death and has kept the lantern over the door burning every night since. Over the years the inn has sheltered merchants, midrank soldiers, and more than one secret meeting. Locals remember the inn's cellar being sealed for a winter after a mold outbreak decades ago, but recent renovations reopened part of it for wine and root storage.

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The Lantern and Lute

The Lantern and Lute was opened thirty years ago by a travelling minstrel who settled when he fell in love with the town and its harvests.

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Marla Fen

Tavernkeeper

Marla Fen
HumanBard

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The Lantern and Lute was opened thirty years ago by a travelling minstrel who settled when he fell in love with the town and its harvests. The building uses stones from an old watchtower that once stood on the hill, said to have kept the road safe in older, darker years. The current keeper inherited the inn after the minstrel's death and has kept the lantern over the door burning every night since. Over the years the inn has sheltered merchants, midrank soldiers, and more than one secret meeting. Locals remember the inn's cellar being sealed for a winter after a mold outbreak decades ago, but recent renovations reopened part of it for wine and root storage.

Quirks

The inn always leaves a single lit lantern hanging by the door each night for 'the lost traveler.' Guests sometimes wake to find a small coin placed at the edge of their bed. The inn cat, Pippin, has a habit of carrying off small shiny objects and depositing them in the innkeeper's apron. Longtime customers toss a silver into a chipped tankard that sits on the mantle for luck before a journey.

Lore

Locals believe the watchtower foundation hides a small shrine to a nature goddess that once watched over travelers. The minstrel who founded the inn was rumored to have once been an agent for a guild of couriers and may have hidden a ledger with names and routes somewhere in the walls. Older villagers tell of a lantern made from a wyrmling's scale, though most younger folk treat that as a fanciful tale.

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