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The Sunken Lyre

Built from the hull of the old trade-galleon 'Lyre's Promise', the tavern sits where the city once launched its first light-ships. For decades it served as the seamen's meeting house: a place to recruit crew, patch ropes, and settle maritime disputes. When smugglers discovered a hidden slip beneath the tavern a score of years ago, the building grew into an unofficial port of call for contraband and couriered messages. Marta Brine bought the lease after a skirmish with a dock baron and refitted the hull into the multi-level pub it is now, preserving the keel as the bar's main counter.

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The Sunken Lyre

Built from the hull of the old trade-galleon 'Lyre's Promise', the tavern sits where the city once launched its first light-ships.

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Marta 'Hook' Brine

Tavernkeeper

Marta 'Hook' Brine
Half-elfFighter (Battle Master, retired ship's marshal)

Keeper's Species

Half-elf

History

Built from the hull of the old trade-galleon 'Lyre's Promise', the tavern sits where the city once launched its first light-ships. For decades it served as the seamen's meeting house: a place to recruit crew, patch ropes, and settle maritime disputes. When smugglers discovered a hidden slip beneath the tavern a score of years ago, the building grew into an unofficial port of call for contraband and couriered messages. Marta Brine bought the lease after a skirmish with a dock baron and refitted the hull into the multi-level pub it is now, preserving the keel as the bar's main counter.

Quirks

All mugs are stamped with a tiny lyre and a streak of blue paint from the old ship plastered to the tavern's front. Patrons often leave small trinkets in the rafters as 'good weather' offerings; Marta collects salt-scraped coins and hurls them into a hidden chest for 'roof repairs'. A tavern bell rings twice if someone ties up a suspiciously expensive vessel to the slip.

Lore

Sailors swear the original lyre figurehead carved into the tavern's prow can hum in storm-fronts, warning those who treat the sea with disrespect. Old crumbs of song claim a Sunfire relic once crossed the tavern's threshold before disappearing into the Warrens; whispered prayers say the relic tempered the light of House Solara. The harbor watch treats the tavern with wary respect because the owners once helped spirit a fleeing captain out through the tide-ways. Superstitions say if you hang a blue thread in the rafters the tide will spare your boat, but if you leave a coin in the mortar the old keel will keep your secrets.

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