Frontier
Rowdy
Poor prices
The Winter Ledger
the trappers' rendezvous on auction week
The Winter Ledger smells of smoked meat, wet wool, and boot leather steeped in ale. Sconces gutter with tallow and a single iron chandelier swings gently over a floor strewn with straw, fur pelts, and upturned crates serving as tables; laughter and shouted bids roll through the room whenever the auctionmaster bangs his hammer. Trappers hunch along the bar, elbows blackened from mending snares, while a cluster near the hearth argues over takedown prices; wet dogs — some real, some prized pelts in transit — and a fiddler who never plays the same tune twice add to the chaos. A corner curtained with oilcloth hides the auction table, where numbers are chalked on bone chips and promising hauls change hands by the hour.
A rough-hewn board painted with a ledger and a crossed trap; the paint is salt-faded and one corner is chewed, no words, only the pair of icons
Merris Hobb
human
Manner
Quirk
Stats
Trader's Throat
4 cpA burnt-grain shot mixed with spruce bitters and a pinch of salt; it clears the head, loosens tongues, and makes liars bolder for one conversation (advantage on Deception for one roll, then a -2 penalty to Charisma checks for the next hour).
Poor (5e lifestyle: about 2 sp a day)
Gwen Metts · cook
A one-eyed woman who turns salted haunch and root stew into something trappers call 'worth the trip'; she hums a mournful tune while cutting fat.
Rill · barmaid
Small, quick-footed, and foul-mouthed, Rill balances a tray of ale while writing down bids when the auction turns too hectic.
Brek Ironsole · bouncer
An ex-trapper as solid as packed snow who clears tables with a stare and keeps the more violent grievances out by the door.
Hoss Grune
A grizzled otter-hunter who always has a tale about the 'one that got away' and is quietly trying to gather funds for a dangerous river run.
Sister Mave
A traveling herbalist who buys offcuts and inspects pelts for parasites while collecting specimens for a sealed grove — she warns that some trappers have angrier spirits in their snares.
Irik of the Dark Line
A soft-voiced fence who appears during auctions to bid high on certain pelts, and who is on Merris's private list of buyers.
1
A hunter named Kaelbrun claims a white fox pelt with a missing ear is haunted; he says the spirit follows the buyer to their camp and scratches at window frames.
2
Irik of the Dark Line bought a crate of 'river cats' pelts and plans a midnight run to the river-fort to sell them to Captain Velm; someone saw men in cut leather with a wolf sigil load the crate.
3
Sister Mave whispers that the moss on the north ridge is regrowing lawless snares overnight — she wants brave folk to find the stone circle where the snares are rooted.
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