Emberhold
A high-village above the Caldera, in the Ashen Peaks
Volcanic ash, peppered cheese aging in the cellar across the square, hot iron from the forge, and the faint sulphur of the warm springs that feed the town.
Stone houses built into a basalt shelf. The air smells of sulfur all day. The villagers are matter-of-fact and tired. Emberhold's people know dragons better than anyone — they have lived above one for three generations. The prices are steep on everything except heat-glass and salt-fired clay.
The Inn — Old Branna of the Hot Stone Inn
The Hot Stone is built into the rock. Your room was small, the walls warm from the kitchen below, the bed surprisingly soft. Branna brought you a small bowl of stew without asking. You ate it. It was lamb.
A stone room over the kitchen fire
Restores ~22% of HP max. One night.
The Hot Stone (same building)
Branna's tavern is her kitchen. Three stools at the counter. The drink is a dark hot wine called 'caldera' served in earthenware. Ash falls in it sometimes. The villagers don't mind.
- Caldera (hot wine)6 sp
+2 morale, +1 stamina, warmth lasting an hour
Inara's Heat-Glass
ashen-goods
Heat-glass cups, charms, salt-fired clay. Most goods only Emberhold makes. Cheaper here than at the Hearthhold Ember Market.
Heat-Glass Cup (holds warmth)
18 gpHeat-Glass Charm (1 night of warmth)
22 gpSalt-Fired Clay Water-Jug (3 units)
14 gp
What you heard here
- — Branna says Pip the Ash-Hatchling has been visible at the fissure rim again.
- — Inara says Vorthul's smoke has changed color since last summer.
- — A villager says two travelers came up the Ash Road last week and did not come back down. They were not adventurers.
Hearthhold is the best of the realm's towns. Emberhold is one of the others. There is value in walking to it on the way back home.
— — Old Pell, on Emberhold