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The Black Tower: The Hollow Refrain - AI-generated fantasy Tavern

The Black Tower: The Hollow Refrain

The Hollow Refrain began as a lean-to built by Mara Sootwife from fallen trunks and deadwood from the Dead Forest. Mara, a goblin who learned to bargain and bribe, struck a pragmatic accord with Arast of the Black Tower: protection and permission in exchange for a steady supply of warriors and gossip. Over a generation the lean-to was shored into a ramshackle pub of planks and bone. It became the preferred drinking-hole for Arast's goblinoid troops, a place where victories are sung, trophies displayed, and the Tower's decrees are repeated in slurred hymns.

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The Black Tower: The Hollow Refrain

The Hollow Refrain began as a lean-to built by Mara Sootwife from fallen trunks and deadwood from the Dead Forest.

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Mara Sootwife

Tavernkeeper

Mara Sootwife
GoblinWarlock

Keeper's Species

Goblin

History

The Hollow Refrain began as a lean-to built by Mara Sootwife from fallen trunks and deadwood from the Dead Forest. Mara, a goblin who learned to bargain and bribe, struck a pragmatic accord with Arast of the Black Tower: protection and permission in exchange for a steady supply of warriors and gossip. Over a generation the lean-to was shored into a ramshackle pub of planks and bone. It became the preferred drinking-hole for Arast's goblinoid troops, a place where victories are sung, trophies displayed, and the Tower's decrees are repeated in slurred hymns.

Quirks

Patrons punctuate toasts by spitting a bit of charred root into the fire. Whenever a visitor is judged 'useful' they are marked with a quick notch on a bone tally kept behind the bar. Spirits sometimes slip through the rafters and drift around the fire, visible as pale motes that never speak but make some patrons leave in trembling silence. Mara answers to no leader inside the Hollow Refrain but will kneel when Arast's banner is presented.

Lore

Arast is the lich lord of the Dead Forest who rules from the Black Tower at the forest's heart. His domain is held by goblinoid warbands, hobgoblin captains, and a handful of elite human and goblinoid officers. The Dead Forest yields strange game and bone-laden wood that Mara uses to keep the Hollow Refrain standing. Locals whisper that Arast's name will call wind and rot, and that the skulls on the trophy wall still taste their old lives in the night. The tavern itself is an extension of the Tower's reach: a place where Arast's will is enforced through fear, gifts, and the promise of status among the goblinoids.

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