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The Four-Season Lantern

The Four-Season Lantern was founded decades ago by a traveling couple who fell in love with the peculiar passage through the Four Seasons Forest. They built the inn around a small spring and a grove of perpetual saplings that seemed to anchor the tavern to the forest's strange magic. Over the years the inn became a neutral ground for merchants and forest folk, surviving shadier eras by maintaining a strict code: no blood rites on the property and no cutting of live seasonal trees within a day's ride.

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The Four-Season Lantern

The Four-Season Lantern was founded decades ago by a traveling couple who fell in love with the peculiar passage through the Four Seasons Forest.

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Mirella Voss

Tavernkeeper

Mirella Voss
Half-elfBard

Keeper's Species

Half-elf

History

The Four-Season Lantern was founded decades ago by a traveling couple who fell in love with the peculiar passage through the Four Seasons Forest. They built the inn around a small spring and a grove of perpetual saplings that seemed to anchor the tavern to the forest's strange magic. Over the years the inn became a neutral ground for merchants and forest folk, surviving shadier eras by maintaining a strict code: no blood rites on the property and no cutting of live seasonal trees within a day's ride.

Quirks

Though the inn is cozy, each room smells faintly of a different season: the north-facing rooms carry the tang of frost, east rooms smell of wet sap, south rooms are warm with sun-wax, and west rooms are dense with leaf-mold and pumpkin spice. Patrons sometimes wake with stray, harmless bioluminescent spores in their hair in the morning.

Lore

Locals insist the inn is blessed — or bound — to the Four Seasons Forest. Some say the carved pumpkins in fall are more than decoration: they are warding lanterns that keep an old sleep-bound spirit placated. Others believe the house collects seasonal memories: patrons who stay a full week report dreams of other seasons, as if the building loans them brief lives in spring or winter. Old maps mark a 'seasonal seam' beneath the inn, a thin place where a ritual long ago split the forest into overlapping tides of weather.

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