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The Hearth and Hollow

The inn began as a single-room alehouse on the edge of a sleepy market village. Two generations ago the current tavernkeeper's grandmother set hearthstone into the floor when she married a watchman who kept night watch on the old tower ruins. Over thirty years the little alehouse grew into a modest inn as the road to the north saw more farmers and fewer bandits. The inn has been family run and lightly defended; it served one winter as a makeshift shelter when the village granary failed. The name comes from the hearth's habit of keeping company warm even when the wind is bone-cold.

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The Hearth and Hollow

The inn began as a single-room alehouse on the edge of a sleepy market village.

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Mara Thistlebrook

Tavernkeeper

Mara Thistlebrook
HumanBard

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The inn began as a single-room alehouse on the edge of a sleepy market village. Two generations ago the current tavernkeeper's grandmother set hearthstone into the floor when she married a watchman who kept night watch on the old tower ruins. Over thirty years the little alehouse grew into a modest inn as the road to the north saw more farmers and fewer bandits. The inn has been family run and lightly defended; it served one winter as a makeshift shelter when the village granary failed. The name comes from the hearth's habit of keeping company warm even when the wind is bone-cold.

Quirks

The inn keeps a resident cat called Porridge who collects shiny things and hides them in the hearth. The innkeeper writes the nightly menu in a different flourish each day; regulars bet on whether it will be a flower, a knot, or a tiny rune. Patrons are expected to toast the hearth on the first night they sleep there. Mara the innkeeper hums the same two-bar tune anytime she is pleased or annoyed, and many guests will hum along without realizing it.

Lore

Locals tell of the 'Hearthstone Promise' a superstition that sitting by the inn's central hearth on the first full moon after a long journey keeps a traveler safe until sunrise. Folk say the inn sits over a short stretch of an old watchtower wall; old bricks sometimes surface in the cellar and show shapes that suggest the tower once hosted a small garrison. Rumor claims a traveler once hid a carved ivory token inside the inn's north beam; that token appears in three different local folktales as a token of protection.

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