TABERNA AD CONFLUENTES

The Confluence Inn  ·  Inn and Tavern  ·  Confluence Quarter, Confluentes

"The Confluence Quarter’s inn occupies the most commercially convenient position in the city for people who have arrived by river and do not yet know which bank their business requires. This has made it, over three centuries, the establishment of first resort for every category of river trader, dispute party, and institutional visitor that Confluentes generates. The proprietor has been watching this flow for twenty-two years and has developed the specific intelligence of someone who sees everyone before they have worked out who else is in the room."

— G.C.P.S.A., Descriptio Aethermarchae, 1197 A.P.

The Taberna ad Confluentes occupies a corner position on the Confluence Quarter’s main commercial street, three minutes from the eastern quay and ten from the Guild headquarters’ entrance. It is the city’s primary inn for commercial visitors, licensing applicants, and dispute parties — the people who have come to Confluentes for institutional reasons and need a base of operations that is equidistant from the Guild’s territory and the governor’s. The inn has been in the same building since the third century, though the building has been entirely rebuilt twice and substantially modified four more times. It has twenty-four guest rooms, a common room that serves as the Confluence Quarter’s most active social exchange point, and a proprietor who has been watching the flow of institutionally significant visitors for twenty-two years.

Design

Three storeys of river limestone, the ground floor the common room and kitchen, the upper floors the guest accommodation arranged around a central stair. The common room’s arrangement is the building’s most practically significant feature: tables positioned so that the main entrance, the kitchen door, and both staircases are visible from the proprietor’s station at the bar, which is the arrangement of someone who considers situational awareness a professional requirement.

Denizens

Marcus Tabernarius Confluentis , fifty-one, proprietor, twenty-two years. Has an accurate assessment of every significant person currently staying in the city and a working theory about the relationship between the Guild’s secondary archive purchase approach and the irregular bridge crossings that he has assembled from common room intelligence without having any of the pieces directly. He has told no one his theory. He has been waiting for someone to ask him a question that would make sharing it useful.

Founding Date

3rd century A.P. (current building: largely 9th century with modifications)

Type

Inn

Parent Location

CONFLUENTES

Owner

Marcus Tabernarius Confluentis

Rooms Available
24 guest rooms, upper floors. Standard and premium rates.
The secure room: by booking, ground floor, no window.
Current occupancy: 16 of 24 rooms taken by a mix of commercial visitors and one party that booked under a cargo broker’s company name that Pax Pontis does not recognise from the eastern goods trade.