Planar
Upscale
Aristocratic prices
The Seventh Treaty
the tea-house where bargains breathe
Stepping through the low doors feels like crossing a border between polarities. Light here is layered: gilt chandeliers shed warm gold while pale lunar lamps pour argent pools over marble inlays; shadows keep to the corners as if obeying etiquette. Guests settle in high-backed booths draped with translucent screens; each booth is a little island where voices lower to a hush and the clink of porcelain sounds almost ceremonial. The air carries the scent of jasmine and brimstone-sour bergamot in equal measure, and a discreet bell rings once whenever a new guest asks for a private audience. Musicians play hush-song on stringed instruments that seem to tune themselves to whoever listens longest. Patrons range from winged diplomats with statutes of office pinned to their cloaks, to velvet-suited emissaries whose smiles stop just short of friendly — everyone here counts words like coin.
A lacquered brass teacup suspended by three tiny chains; one rimmed with a stylized feather, one with a curled horn, the third etched with an inscrutable sigil — the metal gleams as if freshly polished every dawn. No words, only the cup's faint, perpetual steam.
High Steward Marrek
human (former celestial envoy)
Manner
Quirk
Stats
Bargain's Breath
1 gpA delicate cup of tea infused with a sliver of starmoss and a drop of brimstone reduction; it calms tempers and sharpens memory for the next hour — those who drink it can recall exact phrasing of promises as if spoken yesterday.
Aristocratic (5e lifestyle: about 10 gp or more a day)
Sable · teaperson
A quiet tinker-turned-tea-master, she cultivates rare brews in a brass samovar shaped like a tiny chapel and always knows which leaf will loosen a lie.
Kest · host
A silver-tongued half-fiend in tailored white who escorts guests to booths and subtly adjusts the seating so rivals sit back-to-back.
Brother Ren · page
An ascetic-looking acolyte who clears bowls with surprising speed and delivers messages folded into tea leaves.
Madam Penhal
A veiled angelic jurist who collects minor disputes and trades verdicts for rare vintages; she wants someone to fetch her missing arbitration gavel.
Count Varrun
A cultured devil noble who lingers over games of etiquette and is quietly searching for the name scratched into Marrek's hidden ledger.
The Quiet Scribe
An invisible patron who records bargains in a book that appears only where deals are freshest; the Scribe seeks a lost ink-stone stolen during a ceasefire tea.
1
Madam Penhal quietly tells anyone who will listen that the arbitration gavel she lost was taken to the Umbral Stacks — a library of outlawed edicts beneath the Ninth Rial.
2
Count Varrun seeks a 'True Name Ribbon' rumored to be woven into the hem of a sleeping minister's robe in the obsequious court of Ur's Rest; he offers coin for anyone who can retrieve it without public scandal.
3
A courier claims the Quiet Scribe's ink-stone was auctioned to a masked collector on the Isle of Whisper; whoever recovers it could compel the Scribe to reveal a hidden clause written into the ledger beneath the counter.
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