Triboar playhouse

The Triboar playhouse was a theater in the town of Triboar in the Dessarin Valley in the late 15th century DR.

It was built with stone walls and wooden beams supported the peaked roof, which included a skylight.

The theater was small and shabby. Illumination was provided by a chandelier like an iron wagon wheel topped with candles.

The stage was framed by split arches, with a backcloth bearing a sun-like design. Around the base were moldings of the town's insignia displaying three boars' heads face-on and images from Triboar's history and legends: the tale of a traveler who killed three boars here on the same day, giving the town its name, and rangers venerating the god Gwaeron Windstrom at his nearby resting place known as Gwaeron's Slumber.

The mural around the base of the stage, from the killing of three boar to the pilgrimage of rangers to Gwaeron's Slumber.

It seemed just anyone could put on a show here. In a pinch, people could also find a place to sleep here, whether over night or just during a particularly dull performance.

DM Note (History)

In the late 1490s DR, the penniless sorcerer Simon Aumar returned to Triboar and found work as a stage magician at the Triboar playhouse, but also as a petty thief. He would cast cantrips and put on poor performances while using a mage hand spell to pickpocket members of his audience remotely. His audiences were utterly unimpressed by his prestidigitations, such as firefinger, turning only slightly blurry, and producing the smell of freshly cut grass. When his former partners-in-crime Edgin Darvis and Holga Kilgore came looking for him, Simon was surprised to see them, lost concentration, and dropped the ball of stolen valuables—loudly. With that, he magically transformed his audience into an angry mob looking for justice. When a big guy grabbed him, Simon tried to cast a shield spell but inadvertently got a reverse gravity instead, plunging them to the ceiling, where they kept pursuing until he dropped them again. The next time he tried this, Simon flew through the skylight outside the playhouse, where Holga caught him. The trio rode swiftly out of town.

The Triboar playhouse may have originated in The Talking Troll, a derelict tavern whose owner, Kaelen Sarssir, an actor, had plans of turning into a theater.