The Tavern

A far humanoid mouse whose is exceptional in the arcane arts. His eyes are of the cutest green. His fur is silvery blue. His wizardly hat and robes are purple with silver decorations. He carries a tooth pick size staff of wyrmwood and a book of knowledge.

A dwarf priestess of Solenne, niece of the exiled door-warden Korga Vhalen. She grew up in the Meridan diaspora, tending hearth-shrines for a people who lost their home to something in the deep. When Harrowgate's bells began ringing without hands, she recognized the pattern from her uncle's nightmares and took a charter the same week. Warm, stubborn, and unafraid of the dark, which worries her uncle more than anything.

A knighted veteran of Harrowgate's watch who resigned her post to take a Lanternhall charter. Twenty years of soldiering taught her that walls only protect the people inside them, and the dead climbing out of the Sleeping Hills are not staying outside the walls. Steady, dutiful, and quietly furious at the failing barrow-seals.

A halfling from the Greywater barge families who knows every dock, debt, and back door in Harrowgate. Ran errands for Old Marrow until they saw what one of Marrow's clients was buying: grave-dirt from the Sleeping Hills, paid in imperial coin. Took a Lanternhall charter the next morning, on the theory that the guild's protection is cheaper than a funeral.

A half-orc ranger descended from the old Border Legions, raised warding the Emberpeaks passes his ancestors died for. When the dragon Kazrivex began taxing the mountain roads, the passes emptied and his village's livelihood with them. He took a Lanternhall charter to do what wardens do: keep the roads open, whatever is sitting on them.

A tiefling scholar who inherited his bloodline's oldest debt: an ancestor stood in the court of Karthis the night of the Last Working, and something that survived the fire has been collecting from the family ever since. Seryth's magic is borrowed against that debt. He took a Lanternhall charter to reach Karthis-That-Was and find the original contract, because a debt you can read is a debt you can break.

An elf wizard of the Thornwood who spent forty years as the vanished archmage Ondrel's correspondence student without ever meeting him. His letters stopped the night the Spindle sealed itself. She has finally come to Harrowgate with a charter, his unfinished notes, and the growing suspicion that the tower's riddling door has been waiting for her specifically.