Local lore holds that the crossroads is older than the current road—stones beneath the inn are said to hum faintly on certain nights when travelers gather. The bell's coin-charms are rumored to ward the inn against misfortune; those who hang a rune-carved coin often return years later to find it missing, as if the crossroads took it along its endless flow of travelers. Some whisper that the dead-tree rune marks an old watch-post used by rangers in an age when bandits ruled the road; others claim it's a sigil used by a disbanded courier guild that used charms to mark safe routes.