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The Hearth at Oaken Lane

The Hearth at Oaken Lane opened thirty years ago when a retired sellsword bought a timber lot beside the trade road and built a two-story inn to shelter passing caravans. Over the years the inn expanded from a single common room to seven chambers and a stable. It survived one recorded bandit raid and a winter of poor harvests by hosting miners and woodcutters on work-for-board arrangements. The current proprietress inherited the inn a decade ago and restored its cozy reputation by hiring local singers and tracking honest wagons instead of courting nobility.

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The Hearth at Oaken Lane

The Hearth at Oaken Lane opened thirty years ago when a retired sellsword bought a timber lot beside the trade road and built a two-story inn to shelter passing caravans.

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Marta Underbough

Tavernkeeper

Marta Underbough
HumanBard

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The Hearth at Oaken Lane opened thirty years ago when a retired sellsword bought a timber lot beside the trade road and built a two-story inn to shelter passing caravans. Over the years the inn expanded from a single common room to seven chambers and a stable. It survived one recorded bandit raid and a winter of poor harvests by hosting miners and woodcutters on work-for-board arrangements. The current proprietress inherited the inn a decade ago and restored its cozy reputation by hiring local singers and tracking honest wagons instead of courting nobility.

Quirks

The inn keeps an old clock that loses five minutes every night for reasons no one can explain. Patrons will find small wooden tokens tucked under mugs from time to time; they are stamped with a faded oak lantern and can be traded to the innkeeper for a small discount or a private word. The hearth cat, named Cinder, habitually curls on any satchel left unattended and will refuse to move unless bribed with fish.

Lore

Locals say the hill behind the inn once hosted a skirmish between two petty lords. Stones at the summit bear faint burn marks and, on still nights, people claim they can hear the clang of armor. Tavern songs and a few ballads passed down by travelers reference the place as 'the quiet watch' where brave wagons once turned to avoid the worst of the skirmishes. The inn's sign shows an oak trunk with a lantern, a symbol some old timers associate with a vanished neighborhood watch that once protected the trade road.

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