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The Hearth and Hound

Built roughly twenty-four years ago by a pair of retired road wardens, the Hearth and Hound began as a single-room wayside alehouse. Over the years it expanded into an inn after a nearby trade road was rerouted through this lane. The current proprietor bought the place from the founders ten years ago and has kept the low, homey feel while patching its reputation as a safe stop for merchants and smaller adventuring parties. Rumor says one of the original wardens hid a small chest somewhere in the foundations before he disappeared during a winter patrol.

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The Hearth and Hound

Built roughly twenty-four years ago by a pair of retired road wardens, the Hearth and Hound began as a single-room wayside alehouse.

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Mara Brine

Tavernkeeper

Mara Brine
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Keeper's Species

Human

History

Built roughly twenty-four years ago by a pair of retired road wardens, the Hearth and Hound began as a single-room wayside alehouse. Over the years it expanded into an inn after a nearby trade road was rerouted through this lane. The current proprietor bought the place from the founders ten years ago and has kept the low, homey feel while patching its reputation as a safe stop for merchants and smaller adventuring parties. Rumor says one of the original wardens hid a small chest somewhere in the foundations before he disappeared during a winter patrol.

Quirks

The inn keeps a 'lost sock' box which actually becomes a repository for small, odd trinkets and IOUs. Patrons leave single coins nailed to the signboard for luck. The inn's resident tabby, Soot, steals small shiny objects and returns them to the hearth each morning. Every evening at the ninth bell the innkeeper rings a small brass bell and the staff dim a row of lanterns while a single candle is kept lit for 'safe stories'.

Lore

Locals tell of a small spring beneath the inn that once supplied the bath house and whose salts are said to ease aches. The inn's carved sign shows a hound with a brazier at its feet, a symbol said to ward off restless spirits who once haunted the old road. Minstrels sometimes sing of the Hearth and Hound as the place where a famed mercenary drank his last ale before vanishing into the hills, leaving behind a bloodstained gauntlet now framed above the bar.

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