The Iron Hearth & Velvet Forge

The Iron Hearth & Velvet Forge was founded a century ago by two estranged siblings: a pragmatic smith and a soft-spoken patron of the arts. They combined their trades to create a place where iron and indulgence met — a brothel that catered to miners, merchants and the city's underbelly alike. Over decades the tavern survived fires, sieges and a bitter dispute with the city guilds by positioning itself as indispensable to the flow of information and labor. Brynna Stonevein purchased the establishment twenty years ago with a mix of coin, favors and one particularly well-timed heist; she reworked the layout into the current labyrinth of chambers and tunnels and established the Stonevein Articles that govern behavior within.