The Fourfold Lantern

The Fourfold Lantern was founded fifty years ago by an ex-guide who carved pumpkins to light travelers through the stubborn seasons of the forest. Over the decades it grew around a natural spring and a small specimen of season-bent fungus taken from the forest path. Mirela bought the inn ten years ago after guiding a noble through a deadly autumn gale; she rebuilt the upper floor after a winter collapse and apprenticed with a Lungan vintner to create the house wine.

Tavern

The Fourfold Lantern

The Fourfold Lantern was founded fifty years ago by an ex-guide who carved pumpkins to light travelers through the stubborn seasons of the forest.

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Mirela Voss

Tavernkeeper

Mirela Voss
Half-elfRanger

Keeper's Species

Half-elf

History

The Fourfold Lantern was founded fifty years ago by an ex-guide who carved pumpkins to light travelers through the stubborn seasons of the forest. Over the decades it grew around a natural spring and a small specimen of season-bent fungus taken from the forest path. Mirela bought the inn ten years ago after guiding a noble through a deadly autumn gale; she rebuilt the upper floor after a winter collapse and apprenticed with a Lungan vintner to create the house wine.

Quirks

The inn's lanterns and carved pumpkins change hue subtly with the mood of the room; when tensions rise they flicker orange-red, and when laughter spreads they glow amber-gold. The house fungi occasionally rearrange their tendrils overnight, making the shelves look slightly different each morning.

Lore

Local hunters swear the Four Seasons Forest is stitched together by several 'season nodes'—small arcs of wild magic that hold spring, summer, autumn, or winter in stasis. The inn trades with Lunga for supplies and information, and its biolume clusters are rumored to be cultivated from spores that only form when two seasons meet. Long ago the inn's founder negotiated a pact with a capricious sylph that keeps the hot spring warm in exchange for leaving a single carved pumpkin on the forest's border each year.

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