The Golden Giant was once the family manor of the Caspervitch Noble Family who have long been exiled from the kingdom. Five decades ago, a particularly ambitious and industrious young noble from the Eaglelore family bought the manor. Most nobles believed the young gentleman purchased the property for his own future family but they were quickly proved mistaken.
The young noble, Vigor Eaglelore, set about completely changing the large walled manor into a immense tavern, inn and fest hall. Today it is the most prestigious, comfortable and luxurious taverns in the whole of the country.
The Golden Giant stands five stories in height and has expansive grounds, stables and gardens. All serving staff are polite and well spoken, proper etiquette is essential. Customers are greeted by well-dressed guards at the gates and directed to the main doors to enter the Golden Giant. Unsavoury individuals are turned away at this point.
Stable boys are also waiting at this point to take customers steeds to the grand stables. Special services are available to have steeds pampered while the customers enjoy the facilities for a cost.
Waiting at the doors are butlers who guide the people to the desired areas within the manor. For an additional cost a herald can be hired at this point to herald the customer’s arrival, calling out titles, exploits, accomplishments, holdings before they enter the restaurant, tavern, fest hall or private rooms. Some particularly vain customers even hire herald to herald their arrival into the lavish bedrooms upstairs.
Personal servants can also be hired at the front doors to get all drinks, meals, relay messages or prepare areas for their arrival.
Bottom Level
The bottom level of the Golden Giant is the restaurant, tavern and private function rooms. Hundreds of people fill this level and private parties, gatherings and meetings are held in the private rooms.
The Hungry Giant
The restaurant, called the Hungry Giant, serves local cuisine plus more exotic dishes from distant lands. The meals are considered unparalleled in Sasserine but the nobles have limited experience in this area though considering most have not even frequented any other tavern. The restaurant also serves a huge variety of beverages including teas from imported from the mainland.
The Toppled Giant
The tavern is known as the Toppled Giant, and is fitted with cushioned booths, hardwood tables and has a long gold gilded bar. At the end of every booth is a tap and at the customers request, barrels of ale, beer stout, wine or even spirits can be carried over and hooked up to the tap. Barrels are pre-purchased and locked in behind the tap and the customers are given mugs or glasses to fill themselves. Light meals such as soaps, spiced breads, cheeses and fruits are served at the tavern but customers wanting larger meals are directed to the Hungry Giant down the hall.
The Giant Gathering
The function rooms are collectively known as the Giant Gatherings. Some hold no more than a small table and 4 chairs while others hold up to 500 people with a loft for a band and great dining tables and fireplace. This larger room was once the feast hall of the estate but now is hired for particularly large banquets, private balls and ceremonies. Most nobles prefer to have their special feasts in their own estates and manors but sometimes these are either too small or a neutral location is required. The banquet room has an adjoining kitchen.
Second level
The second level is one immense fest hall where great dances, balls and noble gatherings are held. For the majority of the time this level is only partially used. In this area a great stage productions are held - theatre productions, plays, performance’s, famous minstrels and bards perform here in front of great crowds.
Third, Fourth and Fifth Levels
The top three levels of the manor are collectively known as the Sleeping Giant. The third level has 10 large luxurious rooms with their own bathrooms and toilet. The fourth level is divided into four huge suites the each the size of house. Finally the top level is all one beautiful suite with room for servants, a kitchen, toilet, dinning room and 4 large bedrooms. All levels have magnificent views of the city, lake, surrounding countryside and distant ice capped mountains.
Caspervitch’s Caves
The Caspervitch Noble Family was exiled from this manor and all of the country because of Talosis Caspervitch’s, the family head at the time, attempt on the kings life. Before Talosis was executed and his family exiled he claimed he had been forced to try and assassinate the king lest his own family be drawn into the darkness beneath and devoured for all eternity.
Talosis also said in the hours before his death that he had discovered caves leading deep beneath his manor and ruins of reptilian empire and other more ancient structures, lay waiting full of riches, alien treasures and artifacts. Talosis frantically warned that he had unwittingly opened a dark portal while he searched, that lead deep into a dark realm. A winged giant of utter darkness and its dark shadow stained minions had begun to seep through.
Whether this story was a crazed attempt to save his own life or the true confessions of a desperate man may never be known. What is known is that very few of the Caspervitch family were exiled on the day of Talosis’ execution the rest simply fled on their own account or disappeared utterly from Sasserine.
The Winking Eye is a one of the most expensive taverns in the city. Patrons need to pay to enter and mediocre beverages and meals are sold for over inflated prices. Yet the Winking Eye remains one of the most popular taverns in all of the city. Sailors, merchants, scholars and disguised nobles all rub shoulders in this crowded establishment willing to pay the exorbitant prices for what the tavern has to offer.
What keeps the patrons coming back is two simple things; singing and company. The Winking Eye attracts the best bards, minstrels and singers to entertain their patrons every evening and the large dance floor is always full.
The second attraction is the company. The Winking Eye seems to always have the most attractive men and women frequenting its bar room who love to chat, flirt and mingle with all.
The patrons of the Eye, is a middle aged couple keen to make everyone happy, well feed and at least tipsy by the time they tumble out of the door when the music stops early the next morning. Gean and Jennifer can always be found flittering about the tavern.
But for all its popularity, the Winking Eye has a secret. Gean and Jennifer believe it to be a harmless little lie geared at making people feel happy and attractive themselves. The secret is that many of the friendly beautiful women and men who frequent the Winking Eye are in fact actors. The taverns prices more than pay for the cost of their duplicity and most of the actors enjoy the company of the regulars now. The attractive actors are payed to converse, flirt, mingle and dance with the patrons, beyond this is left up to them.
The Leafy Branch Tavern is a haunt for travellers, explorers, scholars, sages and philosophers. The Leafy Branch has is cluttered with high shelves filled with overflowing tomes, scrolls, books and parchments. Walls not obscured by shelves are covered with maps and drawings.
People could be excused for believing this tavern some type of library instead but while a library is a quite sanctuary, the ‘Branch’ is alive with loud conversation, debates and outright argument.
Adventures are welcome here and employers are easy to come by. Many sages, scholars and collectors are continually looking for explorers or adventurers to prove a theory, discover a lost artifact or just map out a previously uncharted area for them.
Food is usually light and portions small. Wine and spirits are most commonly served. The Leafy Branch has no bar to speak of but waitresses quietly weave about the many tables, desks and books taking orders and delivering meals.
The owner of the branch, a retired explorer and treasure hunter called Scarbrow, is just as likely to be found in the kitchen, the cellar, the private attic libraries as he can be retelling past adventures or pawing over a new map in the common room.
The Laughing Lady was originally named after it’s huge jovial patron who was as friendly and happy as she was rotund – Mary Grundal. Mary’s portrait hangs above the fireplace still laughing and her grandson - Lorus, equally rotund, now runs the tavern.
The Laughing Lady Tavern is a moderately priced establishment that sits in Sasserines West close to the docks and Plumes Garrison. It has a small loyal cliental which travel from all over the city to dine on large hearty meals and warm mead.
Lorus brews his own ale that is an acquired taste, thick and creamy with a heavy aftertaste but many other brews are available including Stouts from Delvesdeep, Lagers from the Cauldron environs and even wines from the elvish kingdoms of the north.
The Laughing Lady only serves one type of meal – large. Stews and soaps are most popular but pork, fish and venison are also served. Most meals are accompanied by hot buttered bread. Lorus’ most popular dish is his rich stew he calls Lady’s Choice that some nobles have begun to frequent the tavern just to eat.
The Laughing Lady is usually frequented by a mix of patrons keen to enjoy a good meal, good drink and good company. Many of the regulars have been coming here every day for year’s even decades. The customers are usually a mix of merchants, sailors, nobles and travellers who are keen to keep their drinking hole safe and the same way as it always has been.
An old blind man wanders in every night with his white wolf to warm himself in front of the fire. Lorus always has hot stew and bread on the fireside table waiting for the old man. In payment the old man recounts stories, legends, myths and poems to any that would listen.
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The Golden Giant
The Golden Giant was once the family manor of the Caspervitch Noble Family who have long been exiled from the kingdom. Five decades ago, a particularly ambitious and industrious young noble from the Eaglelore family bought the manor. Most nobles believed the young gentleman purchased the property for his own future family but they were quickly proved mistaken.
The young noble, Vigor Eaglelore, set about completely changing the large walled manor into a immense tavern, inn and fest hall. Today it is the most prestigious, comfortable and luxurious taverns in the whole of the country.
The Golden Giant stands five stories in height and has expansive grounds, stables and gardens. All serving staff are polite and well spoken, proper etiquette is essential. Customers are greeted by well-dressed guards at the gates and directed to the main doors to enter the Golden Giant. Unsavoury individuals are turned away at this point.
Stable boys are also waiting at this point to take customers steeds to the grand stables. Special services are available to have steeds pampered while the customers enjoy the facilities for a cost.
Waiting at the doors are butlers who guide the people to the desired areas within the manor. For an additional cost a herald can be hired at this point to herald the customer’s arrival, calling out titles, exploits, accomplishments, holdings before they enter the restaurant, tavern, fest hall or private rooms. Some particularly vain customers even hire herald to herald their arrival into the lavish bedrooms upstairs.
Personal servants can also be hired at the front doors to get all drinks, meals, relay messages or prepare areas for their arrival.
Bottom Level
The bottom level of the Golden Giant is the restaurant, tavern and private function rooms. Hundreds of people fill this level and private parties, gatherings and meetings are held in the private rooms.
The Hungry Giant
The restaurant, called the Hungry Giant, serves local cuisine plus more exotic dishes from distant lands. The meals are considered unparalleled in Sasserine but the nobles have limited experience in this area though considering most have not even frequented any other tavern. The restaurant also serves a huge variety of beverages including teas from imported from the mainland.
The Toppled Giant
The tavern is known as the Toppled Giant, and is fitted with cushioned booths, hardwood tables and has a long gold gilded bar. At the end of every booth is a tap and at the customers request, barrels of ale, beer stout, wine or even spirits can be carried over and hooked up to the tap. Barrels are pre-purchased and locked in behind the tap and the customers are given mugs or glasses to fill themselves. Light meals such as soaps, spiced breads, cheeses and fruits are served at the tavern but customers wanting larger meals are directed to the Hungry Giant down the hall.
The Giant Gathering
The function rooms are collectively known as the Giant Gatherings. Some hold no more than a small table and 4 chairs while others hold up to 500 people with a loft for a band and great dining tables and fireplace. This larger room was once the feast hall of the estate but now is hired for particularly large banquets, private balls and ceremonies. Most nobles prefer to have their special feasts in their own estates and manors but sometimes these are either too small or a neutral location is required. The banquet room has an adjoining kitchen.
Second level
The second level is one immense fest hall where great dances, balls and noble gatherings are held. For the majority of the time this level is only partially used. In this area a great stage productions are held - theatre productions, plays, performance’s, famous minstrels and bards perform here in front of great crowds.
Third, Fourth and Fifth Levels
The top three levels of the manor are collectively known as the Sleeping Giant. The third level has 10 large luxurious rooms with their own bathrooms and toilet. The fourth level is divided into four huge suites the each the size of house. Finally the top level is all one beautiful suite with room for servants, a kitchen, toilet, dinning room and 4 large bedrooms. All levels have magnificent views of the city, lake, surrounding countryside and distant ice capped mountains.
Caspervitch’s Caves
The Caspervitch Noble Family was exiled from this manor and all of the country because of Talosis Caspervitch’s, the family head at the time, attempt on the kings life. Before Talosis was executed and his family exiled he claimed he had been forced to try and assassinate the king lest his own family be drawn into the darkness beneath and devoured for all eternity.
Talosis also said in the hours before his death that he had discovered caves leading deep beneath his manor and ruins of reptilian empire and other more ancient structures, lay waiting full of riches, alien treasures and artifacts. Talosis frantically warned that he had unwittingly opened a dark portal while he searched, that lead deep into a dark realm. A winged giant of utter darkness and its dark shadow stained minions had begun to seep through.
Whether this story was a crazed attempt to save his own life or the true confessions of a desperate man may never be known. What is known is that very few of the Caspervitch family were exiled on the day of Talosis’ execution the rest simply fled on their own account or disappeared utterly from Sasserine.
They were entertaining, sadly I’ve grown in other directions as the years passed and only the grassroots is still around.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.
The Winking Eye
The Winking Eye is a one of the most expensive taverns in the city. Patrons need to pay to enter and mediocre beverages and meals are sold for over inflated prices. Yet the Winking Eye remains one of the most popular taverns in all of the city. Sailors, merchants, scholars and disguised nobles all rub shoulders in this crowded establishment willing to pay the exorbitant prices for what the tavern has to offer.
What keeps the patrons coming back is two simple things; singing and company. The Winking Eye attracts the best bards, minstrels and singers to entertain their patrons every evening and the large dance floor is always full.
The second attraction is the company. The Winking Eye seems to always have the most attractive men and women frequenting its bar room who love to chat, flirt and mingle with all.
The patrons of the Eye, is a middle aged couple keen to make everyone happy, well feed and at least tipsy by the time they tumble out of the door when the music stops early the next morning. Gean and Jennifer can always be found flittering about the tavern.
But for all its popularity, the Winking Eye has a secret. Gean and Jennifer believe it to be a harmless little lie geared at making people feel happy and attractive themselves. The secret is that many of the friendly beautiful women and men who frequent the Winking Eye are in fact actors. The taverns prices more than pay for the cost of their duplicity and most of the actors enjoy the company of the regulars now. The attractive actors are payed to converse, flirt, mingle and dance with the patrons, beyond this is left up to them.
^ A workable business model. Those actors can easily double as spies, prostitutes, thieves, of course. . .
Thanks - first rolled!
The Leafy Branch
The Leafy Branch Tavern is a haunt for travellers, explorers, scholars, sages and philosophers. The Leafy Branch has is cluttered with high shelves filled with overflowing tomes, scrolls, books and parchments. Walls not obscured by shelves are covered with maps and drawings.
People could be excused for believing this tavern some type of library instead but while a library is a quite sanctuary, the ‘Branch’ is alive with loud conversation, debates and outright argument.
Adventures are welcome here and employers are easy to come by. Many sages, scholars and collectors are continually looking for explorers or adventurers to prove a theory, discover a lost artifact or just map out a previously uncharted area for them.
Food is usually light and portions small. Wine and spirits are most commonly served. The Leafy Branch has no bar to speak of but waitresses quietly weave about the many tables, desks and books taking orders and delivering meals.
The owner of the branch, a retired explorer and treasure hunter called Scarbrow, is just as likely to be found in the kitchen, the cellar, the private attic libraries as he can be retelling past adventures or pawing over a new map in the common room.
put in a fireman's pole.
there is a competition in the tavern, anyone who can climb the pole gets a reward.
However, if they take off their armor and weapons to try and climb the pole someone steals their stuff. Beginning of a mini quest.
Mundane things like games of chance. drinking contests, axe throwing, gnome tossing,
That's a clever idea - even an ancient treant tht the Inn was built around. If you wake him her hurl you from his branches :D
The Laughing Lady
The Laughing Lady was originally named after it’s huge jovial patron who was as friendly and happy as she was rotund – Mary Grundal. Mary’s portrait hangs above the fireplace still laughing and her grandson - Lorus, equally rotund, now runs the tavern.
The Laughing Lady Tavern is a moderately priced establishment that sits in Sasserines West close to the docks and Plumes Garrison. It has a small loyal cliental which travel from all over the city to dine on large hearty meals and warm mead.
Lorus brews his own ale that is an acquired taste, thick and creamy with a heavy aftertaste but many other brews are available including Stouts from Delvesdeep, Lagers from the Cauldron environs and even wines from the elvish kingdoms of the north.
The Laughing Lady only serves one type of meal – large. Stews and soaps are most popular but pork, fish and venison are also served. Most meals are accompanied by hot buttered bread. Lorus’ most popular dish is his rich stew he calls Lady’s Choice that some nobles have begun to frequent the tavern just to eat.
The Laughing Lady is usually frequented by a mix of patrons keen to enjoy a good meal, good drink and good company. Many of the regulars have been coming here every day for year’s even decades. The customers are usually a mix of merchants, sailors, nobles and travellers who are keen to keep their drinking hole safe and the same way as it always has been.
An old blind man wanders in every night with his white wolf to warm himself in front of the fire. Lorus always has hot stew and bread on the fireside table waiting for the old man. In payment the old man recounts stories, legends, myths and poems to any that would listen.