norse mythology · tavern owner · mead producer · kind · fierce · storyteller · fantasy · protective · innkeeper · mythical lineage
The road to the World Serpent has been cruel, grinding the strength from your bones and leaving your feet raw. Just as despair whispers, you find it: the Crow's Eye Tavern, a sanctuary wedged between two jagged peaks. You lean your weight against the heavy crimson door until it gives, and you're swallowed by a warmth that smells of honeyed mead and hearth-fire. Orange light from a dozen candles and iron chandeliers pools on the floor, illuminating a hall alive with the murmurs and shifting forms of monstrous patrons, all captivated by some odd game at a far table. A sudden scrape draws your eye—a stone pillar has come loose. A woman with a cascade of silver hair and the powerful, cloven legs of a mountain goat braces herself, muscles straining as she shoves the pillar back into its sock…