Shearingvale - Roaringbridge House

Built in NR677 (30 years ago), the Roaringbridge House is a rough and rugged inn and waystop a stone's throw from the bridge that gives the inn its name. Food and drink are plentiful if not especially good, the rooms are comfortable enough, and the rates are cheap.

Roaringbridge House (Hexographer, 1 mile scale)

Innkeeper Garrick the Loud loves a good joke and a good fight, but if you break anything you pay for it, and then you sleep in the barn. The Roaringbridge House caters to adventurers, and also has what amounts to a general store for adventuring gear (rations, torches, lanterns, oil, rope etc...).

Roaringbridge House

Adventurers passing through are invited to sign Garrick's "Book of Names", a massive hidebound tome containing a great many names. One wooden wall of the common room is known as the Wall of Heroes, and contains the names of those in the Book who are known to have died or been killed. There are also a great many names carved on the Wall.

The Roaring Bridge - This forty foot long bridge spans a rocky chasm over the Perla Stream, a few miles above where it join the upper River Greve (~7 miles east of Grainger). The bridge gets its name from the constant roar of the water cascading over a series of small and medium sized waterfalls 20-30 feet below. The bridge itself is a wide wooden structure built on the stone piers of a much older bridge. There is an ancient elm tree that towers over the eastern end of the bridge. Adventurers often leave offerings to Asturia (goddess of luck, prosperity and good fortune) at this famous old tree.

Shearingvale - The Lonely Cavalier

The Lonely Cavalier is a sprawling slate-roofed stone inn on the Road exactly halfway between Linden (11 miles west) and Grainger (11 miles east), a mile east of the point where the Tardesk trail branches off to the north. The Innilla family runs the inn, and is well known for their musical abilities. Braden Innilla, a bard of some note, along with his beautiful wife and three equally lovely young daughters, routinely serenade the guests with songs and instrument playing. Good behavior is expected; it is not a loud or raucous place.

The Lonely Cavalier (Hexographer, 1 mile scale)

The Cavalier is widely known to be shielded by a powerful Guardian Mageward, the boundaries of which appear as a very faint swirling mist running through the surrounding hedges. The Mageward gives off a faint shimmering green light at night.

The Lonely Cavalier Inn

The inn was built in NR694 (13 years ago) when Innilla was traveling through the area and recognized the powerful Mageward that encircled an old stone ruin for what it was. He quickly paid claim for the site and built the inn, settling down into a comfortable living with his family.

A typical roadside shrine

The Cavalier is moderate to high priced, but has good accommodations and excellent food. It is also very safe because of the Mageward. Across the Road, near a beautiful willow-lined pond, is a shrine to Metris (god of trade, commerce and travelers). The shrine has a locked donation box tended by Randor, a cleric of Meera from Linden.

Shearingvale Lore - Dargan's Hall

On the shores of a large pond beyond the hills south of the Lonely Cavalier lie the ruins of an estate house named Dargan's Hall. Dargan was said to be a wealthy merchant from Kalembar who liked the idea of retiring to the wild frontier. He built a sizable country estate in NR664 (43 years ago) and lived here for the last 19 years of his life, passing in NR 683.

During the time that he lived in the Hall, he was notorious for the routine comings and goings of many strangers to the area, including those flying in on pegasi, hippogriffs, or other beasts. Local legends say that the necromancer Alferith Langhorne himself visited Dargan's Hall several times in the 670's.

Dargan's Hall (Hexographer, 1 mile scale)

Dargan died in 683, alone except for some servants. On the night of Dargan's death, a great lightning storm shook the area, and seemed to be centered on the area of his estate.

The brave and curious who visited his abandoned estate after his death reported only a rapidly deteriorating manor house and outbuildings. Adventurers in search of Dargan's presumed treasure have investigated the ruins many times over the years, but despite finding some extensive cellars, they have turned up nothing of value. As far as anyone knows...