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The Hollow Hearth

Founded three generations ago by a pair of forest guides who wanted a safe place for travelers to rest between long routes, The Hollow Hearth began as a single dugout hearth beneath an ancient alder. Over the years it expanded into the canopy rooms and bath house as trade lanes shifted through the woods. The tavern has long served as a neutral ground for hunters, druids, merchants, and occasional passing soldiery.

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The Hollow Hearth

Founded three generations ago by a pair of forest guides who wanted a safe place for travelers to rest between long routes, The Hollow Hearth began as a single dugout hearth beneath an ancient alder.

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Miri Greenbough

Tavernkeeper

Miri Greenbough
Half-elfRanger

Keeper's Species

Half-elf

History

Founded three generations ago by a pair of forest guides who wanted a safe place for travelers to rest between long routes, The Hollow Hearth began as a single dugout hearth beneath an ancient alder. Over the years it expanded into the canopy rooms and bath house as trade lanes shifted through the woods. The tavern has long served as a neutral ground for hunters, druids, merchants, and occasional passing soldiery.

Quirks

A carved wooden fox head above the door blinks once at sunset; staff insist it's an old superstition to keep foxes away. The tavern keeps a ledger of travelers' names tucked beneath the hearth stones; new names must be whispered into it upon first arrival.

Lore

Local superstition says the original alder the tavern grew around was planted over the resting place of a guardian stag spirit. Songs claim the stag promised protection to those who kept its grove tended. Whispered stories tie the silver runes to a lost glade where moonlight held back the rot; scholars argue the runes are a fragment of an old warding script used by a cult that once honored the stag. Elders insist the fox-head over the door was carved from a branch of the guardian tree itself and that its blink is a blessing when respected.

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