The White Dragon Inn

The White Dragon Inn is a popular multistory tavern and hotel favored by tourists and non-stingy merchants with their tents in the market square, which it faces. Its taproom features a large taxidermized white dragon head looming over the bar. The prices are a little high for those who need to keep a tight watch on every gold piece, but the food and service levels are commensurate with the costs.

Description

This place is almost always completely packed with patrons. Inside, the tavern is heavily decorated with old and well-used weaponry and split shields and the decor is dominated by a mounted head and partial neck of Vaarsillectinon, an adult white dragon killed at Castle Coldhorn some 60 years ago by Gabrigan Pracy, grandfather of the current Baron Pracy, assisted by a group of knights; many in the town claim one or another of these lesser-known fighters was a relative of theirs. Gabrigan was said to have tried multiple ways to drive it off peacefully but it refused to go, instead attempting to extort the town for gold and livestock in return for protection, and making the old fort its lair. Thanks to Gabrigan Pracy, now Vaarsillectinon is part of the decor in the town he threatened to destroy.

Innkeeper

The White Dragon is, like many popular tourist locales, owned quietly by the Zareslich family and leased to a partial investor who is paid as an employee by the family as well as earning dividends based on the Inn's income. That investor is currently a Female Goliath named Nandrini who likes to spend time somewhat incognito in the taproom or one of the two restaurants inside the structure. The staff of course know who she is, but generally the patrons do not.

Menus

The White Dragon Inn actually includes two different restaurant venues; one is the main taproom with table and full bar service and the Dragon Head, and one in the understory off the lobby serving lighter trenchers and charcuterie boards with wine, baked goods and access to a series of shops on that level selling meats, cheeses, wines, food preparation items, tobacconist goods and the like.

Frequent Patrons

• Shakardi: Female Pilaani Cleric of Nauthiia. Shakardi has perpetually wet silvery hair and large hazel eyes, and a pattern of unusual marks on her arm in addition to her traditional Pilaani tattoos. She wears modest garments and an amulet of luminous seafoam-green crystal.
• Aeltheor: Male Fire Genasi Entertainer. Aeltheor is a frequent musician at the bar, entertaining the crowds with light background music and lilting, interweaving melodies played on a peculiar brass flute. He has braided copper hair and grey eyes, and a short beard. He wears tailored clothing and a sable fur cape.
• Bella Dans: Female Halfling Aristocrat. Bella is one of the Dans' family talent scouts and trainers, seeking in particular any 18 - 22 year old men or women of common birth who exhibit exceptional ballet potential. Slender, with professionally tangled auburn hair and narrow blue eyes. She wears fine raiment and jewelry befitting her status as one of the more powerful individuals in Coldhorn.
• Falli Coalcutter: Female Dwarf Chemist. Bali has close-cropped, uneven blonde hair and soft brown eyes. She wears expensive clothing and a rabbit fur cape.
• Hilda: Female Dwarven Merchant. Hilda is rugged in appearance, with red hair and narrow grey eyes. She wears simple clothing and several small tools hang from her belt.
• Joane Lobrigan: Female Human Professional, Neutral. Joane has curly black hair, dark skin and brown eyes. She wears modest garments and several pouches hang from her belt.

Obvious Rumors (Investigation 10+):

• A dragon was sighted in the Coldhorn pass recently, in league with Derro. It may be the spawn of Vaarsilectinon come back from torpor.
• The Zareslich family is taking unnecessary risks this year, and has another wagon coming in from the Verdant Valley that's almost certain to get caught in the winter storm.
• A cult of snake worshippers called the Ophitics is operating in the nearby woods. Their symbol is a seven-pointed star.
• After years of Peryton's Rook just being a prosaic name for a nearby ghost town, actual Perytons have returned to the area

Less Obvious Rumors (Investigation 15+):

• The workshop of Deslosoth the Enchanter lies somewhere in a side passage of the Coldhorn Pass - Show Spoiler
  a man with serious burns at the Chapel Clinic was there and knows how to get there.
• A Cumaean artifact lies at the heart of the Fort of the Green King - Show Spoiler
  but the third level of the dungeon is filled with extremely dangerous traps.