Underground
Upscale
Wealthy prices
Three Hammers Rest
the tavern beneath the iron vein
You step down from the carved stone stair into a low-ceilinged hall lit by braziers set into iron sconces. The air smells of roasting root, hot metal and the faint tang of ore; every surface is dressed in worked stone and burnished iron—benches with rivets, tables rimmed in hammered steel, a carved dwarven frieze running the length of the room. Conversation is polite and measured; laughter is the measured kind that follows a clever trade or a successful claim. Miners in soot-flecked mail trade quiet jokes with guildmen in clipped cloaks. The hearth holds a slow, steady flame under a massive iron hood—behind it, a rack of smoked meats and a display of bottled vintages in a stone alcove labeled with house marks and years.
A heavy iron disk hung from two chained hammers, burnished to a dull glow; the metal bears three punched hammer-marks and a faint rune of welcome. The chains show old scorch and soot, the disk wobbles when the wind of the halls passes.
Borun Anvilmar
Dwarf
Manner
Quirk
Stats
Anvil Ember
5 spA small measure of warmed basalt whiskey sweetened with a drop of honeyed ore-syrup—it leaves a pleasant heat in the chest and grants +1 to saving throws vs. fear for the next hour as you feel bolstered by ancestral resolve.
Wealthy (5e lifestyle: about 4 gp a day)
Grunhild Orehand · cook
A broad-shouldered dwarf who seasons with crushed ironroot and keeps the kitchen as immaculate as a smithy; her stews are famous for making miners forget blisters.
Brek Stoneward · bouncer
A retired tunnelmaster in iron-plated leather who lets nothing past him unchecked and records every blade at the door with a grunt.
Merrik Flintpour · barmaid
A quick-footed server who knows every patron's favorite pour and slides plates and tankards with the precision of a clockwork cam.
Durgan Fettleshield
A mine foreman who collects stories of vein-strikes and would pay well for proof of a living ore seam.
Kestrel Ironmark
A marble-eyed guild appraiser who snoops ledgers and auctions for rare metals and has been asking after a missing Veinheart talisman.
Old Halrun
An ex-guard who mutters about a collapsed waystone near the Deep Gate and keeps a map with a rust-stained 'X'.
1
Durgan Fettleshield says the southern shaft opened on a blind pocket last week and something screamed from the ore—he's hiring hands to clear a blocked vein.
2
Kestrel Ironmark whispers that a small rune-marked anvil, stamped with the Veinheart sigil, vanished from the guild vault and may have been sold to a collector near the Silver Gate market.
3
Old Halrun swears the waystone by the Deep Gate still holds a warm pulse beneath the rubble; he offers a map and will pay a share if the pulse can be reached and its source identified.
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