The Hollow Thistle sits where two minor ley lines brush the surface and where an old druidic watch-post once tended the wood. The trees around the tavern are slightly older and wiser than normal, and some claim to hear whispered advice in the leaves if you sit very still. The herbalist's sachets are reputed to have components grown from seedlings grafted onto the watch-post roots. There is no single deity worshiped openly here; gratitude is given to the wood itself and the spirits that guard travelers. The tavern's name comes from a cluster of hardy thistles that bloom every autumn in a circle around the well, said to mark the site of a bargain made by the original owners and a sleeping forest spirit.