Mrayvrens' Bountiful Rest
Mrayvrens' Bountiful Rest, or The Bountiful, is an inn in Waterdeep's North Ward. It is located on the east side of Ilzantul Street, four buildings south of Delzorin Street.
This magnificently renovated former mansion (plus adjoining buildings) features ornately plastered ceilings, gleaming expanses of white marble, tall pillars, and many-branched wall candelabras. The Bountiful strove for relaxed luxury without the hauteur of most high-priced inns. The Bountiful is known for its discreet, attentive staff, with a firm policy of serving hot meals in the privacy of guests’ rooms rather than providing a common dining hall. The inn ensures more true rest than many in the city—it hosts no revels or feasts, and it stages no entertainment, offering a blissful quiet that patrons value above all else.
Architecture
The inn consists of four linked buildings, two of them fronting on Ilzantul Street, that form the south side of the alley entering that city block from Ilzantul. The stables occupy the irregularly shaped building fronting on Vhezoar Street, also on the south side of that alley, east of the Bountiful Rest. The Bountiful has entrances and exits in all its exterior walls, and its two main buildings soar six floors above street level.
History
The heart of the Bountiful is centuries old, built as the city home of Lord Urlymen Jardeth. A discontented bachelor, he had become estranged from the rest of his family over his wild spending and what they termed his dissolute ways. (In turn, he derided his kin as “cold-hearted misers who value coins above life and cannot see the difference between austerity and squalor, nor between servants and slaves.”) The mansion has had many owners, including a brief stint, from 1424 through 1429 DR, as the headquarters of the Guild of Apothecaries & Physicians.
In 1462 DR, the Waterdhavian merchant Haeldrar Mrayvren retired from active foundry work, letting his four sons carry on the business of Mrayvren’s Superior Castings. Mrayvren determined to fulfill the lifelong dream of his wife, Elmra, to own and operate her own inn in the city. This establishment would not merely offer accommodations, but also serve as a real haven for travelers - “all that an inn should be,” - in the words of Elmra Mrayvren. So was born Mrayvrens’ Bountiful Rest.
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