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The Thatch and Tankard

The Thatch and Tankard began as a single-room alehouse built by a harvestman named Jory Thatch two decades ago. After a harsh winter and a frontier dispute, the house changed hands to Mara Underbough, a former ranger who expanded the building into a six-room inn and stable to serve the scattering of farms along the valley road. Over the years the inn has been the scene of bailings, small reconciliations, and the occasional clandestine meeting. Locals remember the night a pack of hill wolves circled the inn and were driven off by flaming pitch and chorus songs, an event that elevated the tavern's reputation among nearby villages.

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The Thatch and Tankard

The Thatch and Tankard began as a single-room alehouse built by a harvestman named Jory Thatch two decades ago.

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Mara Underbough

Tavernkeeper

Mara Underbough
HumanRanger

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The Thatch and Tankard began as a single-room alehouse built by a harvestman named Jory Thatch two decades ago. After a harsh winter and a frontier dispute, the house changed hands to Mara Underbough, a former ranger who expanded the building into a six-room inn and stable to serve the scattering of farms along the valley road. Over the years the inn has been the scene of bailings, small reconciliations, and the occasional clandestine meeting. Locals remember the night a pack of hill wolves circled the inn and were driven off by flaming pitch and chorus songs, an event that elevated the tavern's reputation among nearby villages.

Quirks

A chubby kitchen cat named Cobble rules the hearth; he will jump into a patron's lap to approve them and then curl around their mug. The innkeeper counts coin aloud in an old rhyme whenever a new guest pays, and the rafters have dozens of small carved tokens left by travelers who wanted safe passage. On stormy nights the hearth smoke sometimes curls into patterns that look like maps.

Lore

Locals speak of an old boundary stone once set where the inn now stands. Old wives' tales claim the stone marked a bargain between a forester and a troop of wood fey; those who respect the old paths find safer passage, while those who ignore them may wake with moss on their boots. The inn's carved beam above the hearth bears a faint rune, probably a common folk protection mark, carved by Mara's hand the first winter she ran the place.

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