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The Rusted Anchor

The Rusted Anchor began as a lean-to against the old east warehouse forty years ago. It took its name after a sea-chest lid shaped like an anchor that washed ashore during a storm and was nailed over the door as a sign. Over decades the lean-to became a low stone building when Captain Jore's younger sons pooled coin. The pub has served smugglers, honest fishers, and the occasional coastal magistrate. Twice it survived attempts by the harbor guild to buy it out, once by a midnight mortgage burning and once by a brawl that ended with the guildman in the river. Locals say the basement was once part of an inland drainage tunnel that leads under the quay.

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The Rusted Anchor

The Rusted Anchor began as a lean-to against the old east warehouse forty years ago.

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Marta Hobb

Tavernkeeper

Marta Hobb
HumanFighter

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The Rusted Anchor began as a lean-to against the old east warehouse forty years ago. It took its name after a sea-chest lid shaped like an anchor that washed ashore during a storm and was nailed over the door as a sign. Over decades the lean-to became a low stone building when Captain Jore's younger sons pooled coin. The pub has served smugglers, honest fishers, and the occasional coastal magistrate. Twice it survived attempts by the harbor guild to buy it out, once by a midnight mortgage burning and once by a brawl that ended with the guildman in the river. Locals say the basement was once part of an inland drainage tunnel that leads under the quay.

Quirks

A gull perches on the rafters and mimics the sound of coins being counted. The tavernkeeper keeps a jar of old ship nails by the bar that patrons toss for luck. On windy evenings the smokehouse sends a gust of aromatic smoke through the room that makes everyone nostalgic and more likely to talk. When the tide is highest a faint knocking comes from under the floorboards, which the tavernkeeper claims is the anchor charm reminding her to mind the ledgers.

Lore

Old salt talk holds that the quay was blessed once by Brother Halren, a wandering monk who blessed sailors for safe passage and salted the first casks in the smokehouse. Some superstitious skippers hang a blue ribbon from the rusted anchor over the door, a token said to keep small storms from breaking rope. Stories also tell of an anchor charm hidden in the tavern's floor that keeps rats from gnawing coin purses. None of these tales are proven, but every captain who sleeps at the Rusted Anchor checks his lines twice.

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