Local tales say the tavern sits on an old waystone once watched by a gryphon cult; Maera's brass gryphon bell is said to be a fragment of a larger statue removed when the cult dissolved. The tavern's noticeboard has been the starting point for several region-shaping expeditions—heroes who first drank here later became knights, governors, and, in one case, a surprisingly moral bandit-king. Whispered among relic-hunters is a rumor that a subterranean vault beneath the cellar holds a sealed chest bound with an inlaid rune—no one has found the key, but several maps pinned to the board hint at its location.