Underground
Cosy
Comfortable prices
The Stone-Braised Stein
the deephold's drinking hall
Low ceilings of hewn rock, a warm orange glow from a long hearth, and the steady hum of conversation greet anyone who squeezes through the narrow entrance. Thick wooden benches and stone tables sit close together; braziers full of fragrant coal-smoke and roasted root herbs make the air pleasantly dense. The crowd is mostly broad-shouldered dwarves wiping soot from beards, trading stories and coin, but a few outlanders hunch by the far wall, careful not to spill their ale on the carved runes of the bar. The bar itself is a slab of polished basalt inset with iron studs and worn runes that pulse faintly when someone drops a coin into the brass collection bowl.
A heavy wrought-iron ring nailed to a slab of basalt; a soot-smudged mug and an anvil are hammered into the metal. The iron is dulled but well cared for, and a faint smear of coal dust runs along the bottom edge.
Borin Ironbrow
Dwarf
Manner
Quirk
Stats
Anvilfire Sling
5 spA steaming mix of dark stout, a splash of dwarven wine, and a warming iron-spice; it clears the chill and steadies the hands for an hour (advantage on Constitution saves vs. cold or fatigue for 1 hour once).
Comfortable (5e lifestyle: about 2 gp a day)
Hestra Broadfell · cook
A hulking woman who seasons everything with iron-smoke and insists the stew 'tastes like home to miners.'
Merrun Orefist · barmaid
A quick-footed server who knows every patron's favorite tankard and steers gossip to entertaining corners.
Thag Stoneshield · bouncer
Silent as a tomb and fond of letting fists cool on his stone-palm before anyone leaves with a bruise.
Garnuk Fell-sinker
A foreman from a nearby shaft looking for steady hands and anyone who'll help him retrieve a stubborn ore vein sample.
Edra Runehand
A retired runecrafter nursing ale and watching the bar's rune-inlays with keen, regretful eyes; she knows clan marks few others can read.
Brek Coaltoe
A talkative prospector who claims he once glimpsed the sealed vault's iron sigil beneath rubble near the old wash-works.
1
Garnuk Fell-sinker says his crew exposed a rusted iron sigil stamped into bedrock near the old wash-works — the same sigil Edra mutters about when she reads rune fragments.
2
Brek Coaltoe swears a miner found the sealed doorway of the Deephold Ledger and carted off a loose slab before masked men from the Stoneward Clan demanded the slab returned.
3
An encrusted hammer called the Crown of Sputterfell, once wielded by a clan hero, was sold at an underground auction two moonfalls ago; the buyer was seen leaving toward the old clan vault route.
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