Chronicle Inn

The Chronicle Inn sits north of the Silver Sea and is bounded on the northwest by the Bone Forest and northeast by the Baron's domain. The inn is the last "civilized" area before travelers enter the Baron's territory, which crawls with monsters. It is also the last stop on the road around the northern edge of the Silver Sea that leads to the fabled Altar of Self. Many pilgrims still attempt the journey, though none ever return. Any idea that they might have somehow divined the Altar's secret to escaping Maverot is quashed by the volume of bones along the route. Few, if any, have ever actually survived the trek.
The Inn was built before the Starvation as a palace for the wife of one of the Medilazzo scions. Intended as a political marriage, the union successfully consolidated the Medilazzo's influence over the frontier by co-opting the strength the of the Arshuan Seidityua family and securing the patronage of Meprestua. The Chronicle Proprietress is the current owner and operator and has been - as far as anyone knows - since the Starvation. Sometime after that event she converted the palace to an inn. Opulent and imperial, the inn serves no one incapable of paying its exorbitant rates, and guests who stay there are treated like minor royalty in the nearby town . . . as long as they also remain in the Chronicle Proprietress' good graces. Those who fall from her favor soon fall from the gallows.
The Inn is known for many things - it has perhaps the highest standard of living in the known world, for a start - but chief among them is its library. The The Chronicle Proprietress has an intense hunger for information of all kinds, from the magic to the mundane. On the secluded upper floors it is rumored that all the knowledge left in the world resides on floor-to-ceiling bookshelves laden with millions of tomes. Many come to the Inn seeking that knowledge but find it much more difficult to access than they thought. Those who find entrance to the library are confronted with another challenge: overcoming the paranoid suspicions of the Inn's guests and nearby townsfolk who wonder what, if anything, could be more important than the extravagant lifestyles they are pursuing.

Characters in Location

• The Chronicle Proprietress