The Salted Mooring

Originally a tie-up point for fishing skiffs, the Salted Mooring was built forty years ago on reclaimed pilings after the Great Storm. Branna inherited the tavern from her mentor, a famed smuggler-turned-innkeeper, and kept the old ledger system alive — a list that once organized legal shipments and clandestine deliveries alike. Over the decades it became a crossroads for sailors, traders, privateers and the occasional city official. Battles have been fought on its steps, and a bell from a wrecked lighthouse hangs over the bar as a weathered trophy.

Tavern

The Salted Mooring

Originally a tie-up point for fishing skiffs, the Salted Mooring was built forty years ago on reclaimed pilings after the Great Storm.

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Branna 'Ironhook' Vael

Tavernkeeper

Branna 'Ironhook' Vael
HumanFighter (mariner background)

Keeper's Species

Human

History

Originally a tie-up point for fishing skiffs, the Salted Mooring was built forty years ago on reclaimed pilings after the Great Storm. Branna inherited the tavern from her mentor, a famed smuggler-turned-innkeeper, and kept the old ledger system alive — a list that once organized legal shipments and clandestine deliveries alike. Over the decades it became a crossroads for sailors, traders, privateers and the occasional city official. Battles have been fought on its steps, and a bell from a wrecked lighthouse hangs over the bar as a weathered trophy.

Quirks

The tavern gently pitches with the tide; low tables have rope cleats to stop mugs sliding off. Patrons often leave small trinkets on the windowsill as 'payment in salt' for favors. On windless nights, gulls congregate on the roof and will steal unattended napkins, scrolls and small coins. Branna enforces a 'no drawn steel' policy — unless it's a sanctioned duel at the dock-step after closing.

Lore

Local rumor says the building stands on a seam between a ley-current and the sea's shifting tides — a reason fishermen have always found odd luck nearby. The lighthouse bell over the bar is said to toll when a marked ship is near; some swear the bell's echo has once roused the dead. Sailors' guilds whisper of a submerged vault beneath the old lighthouse that will open only to those who can name the tide's true hour. The Salted Mooring's ledger is rumored to list more than debts: codes that point to caches of relics salvaged from wrecks, hidden for those brave (or foolish) enough to claim them.

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