The Roaring Waters

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Purpose / Function

The Roaring Waters is an inn in the small village of Lontif. Actually, it's more of a tavern or pub, since it can only accomodate about five people for staying the night. Its purpose is to host travellers crossing the Western Plains and merchants coming up theFeyr Wàmàr, as well as bringing some income to the small village outside of trading goods. Some of the nomads also come there to trade for food and other goods.

Design

The Roaring Waters is made up of three rooms and a small basement. The main hall, where patrons can eat and drink, the kitchen, a small sectioned off area with a hearth fire and store room for ingredients, as well as a trap door to the basement, where alcohol is kept, and the guest room, which is another sectioned off part of the main hall.
The house has the shape of a rounded prism and at about three quarters of the hall, curtains made from thick leather separate the guest room from the tavern room.
The kitchen is located at the right long side of the building behind the bar counter and it's actually sectioned off by a wooden door.
The walls are from dark wood, the ceiling as well, and the floor is made of stone.

Entries

The entry for patrons is at the left short side of the building. There is another door leading to the kitchen and in the kitchen is another door leading outside, as well as a tra door leading to the basement.
The main room and guest room aren't separated by walls, only by furs.

Sensory & Appearance

The inn is very small but cozy, it smells like herbs and spices, actually very clean for an inn. The room is illuminated by candles in jars, bottles, old cups and wine glasses placed all over the window stills, the tables and every other available surface.
The inn is often rather quiet, mainly because there aren't many people in it.

Denizens

Tulum can almost always be found there and his wife and his daughter often help out as well. Other than that there are the local partons.

Contents & Furnishings

The Roaring Water contains a few wooden tables, a bar and old wooden chairs

Valuables

The most valuable thing inside the Roaring Waters next to the money jar, is the alcohol in the basement.

Alterations

The inn, even though still small, has been enlarged 15 years after construction, by extending the hall for the patrons so that now about 30 people instead of the up to 20 before.

Architecture

The Roaring Waters is built very simplistically and consists mainly of dark wood, Kaatin Night Cedar. Only the foundation and the cellar are built from stone. The roof is made from straw. The buildin itself is more or less like a rounded prisma, longer than wide and a standing triangle, but with rounded sides instead of straight ones. The windows are round and big, there are three of them and they all face the left side towards the river. The door is in this rounded toblerone shape as well, located on theleft, short side of the building.

Defenses

None

History

The Roaring Waters was founded 24 years ago by a young and eager Tulum who had settled in Lontif only three years prior, as the only one of his nomad tribe. He had been severely injured in the middle of winter and was brought to Lontif, one of only a handful of nomadic settlements that are inhabited permanently, to rest and heal.
Lontif is home to a retired nomadic tribe, who gave up living as nomads and built Lontif instead to function as an anchor to the nomadic community. A few people from other tribes had joined over the years and now Lontif was an amalgamation of different tribes.
Tulum realizd that he liked stationary life and with his love for cooking, he decided to pay Lontif back for their service and built The Roaring Waters together with the help of the entire community.
Since the inn is built at the bank of the river, the name Roaring Waters was given to the inn.

Tourism

The Roaring Waters isn't exactly a tourist attraction, and most people who visit are the villagers themselves or nomads passing by. There are travellers stopping there occasionally, but there aren't many. Traders who bring their goods upstream also stop by from time to time, but these visits are rare,

Founding Date

7479 AR

Type

Inn

Parent Location

Western Plains

Owner

Tulum

Owning Organization

Nomadic Tribes of the Western Plains