The Tavern

An ancient and enigmatic elf bound to the Sunken Library of Oryn, known as the Listener. Quiet, unsettling, and difficult to read, the Listener has remained among the drowned archives for an unknown length of time, preserving or observing truths that others attempted to suppress. The Listener claims to be neither guardian nor destroyer. It speaks rarely and precisely, with an unusual awareness of records, memory, testimony, and the dangers of declaring an incomplete history finished. Its exact relationship to the library, Kaelith's hidden ledger, and the corrupted prophecy rites remains unknown. The Listener should be mysterious rather than openly hostile. Its motives, history, loyalties, powers, and even the reason it remained beneath Oryn should emerge through play rather than being established in advance.