Buildings

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The town square is quite busy. The main presence in the square is the huge golden tower that sits in the center, the Torre D'Or. Also around the edges are The Bloody Baron Inn, The Red Pony Tavern, and the Bubbling Candle Apothecary.

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Many citizens are met out and about in the town center. More information can be found here.

The rich area of Thornyside.

This canal marketplace at the top of the hill in Hightown is beautiful and vibrant when the city isn't in lockdown.

This house is full of surprises. Warded with druidic magic to prevent Fey from entering, there is a housekeeper, Matilda Lightfoot. The iron keys given to the group by the fey left a small magical imprint that has keyed the door to them, allowing them to open it without a key. The runes around the front door read: Only those freely given the mark of Star of the Forest may enter. Beware those who try to enter IronKey House unbidden. No force from man, fey, or nature may shake or disturb this house. It is sacred ground.

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The house seems to sense what everyone needs and is beautiful and intricate. Each adventurer has a personalized room, described below in alphabetical order. Galia has not entered her room at Iron Key House yet.

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Adalia: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Adalia carved into the door, surrounded by loops of crashing waves as the carving moves around your name. Little seagulls circle overhead and when you reach your hand out to open the door, a seagull moves down the door to sit on the lock, and the door swings open. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair with a slightly smaller ottoman next to it for Aquilla, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in and there is a large, wide bowl of water on an ornate iron stand in front of it. The bowl is iridescent glass and the water seems very familiar as it calls to you. You realize that they have somehow brought water from the sea near your home. There is a small letter on your desk addressed to you from Galia. You can choose to read it now, or keep it for later.

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Belladonna: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Belladonna carved into the door, surrounded by beautiful knotted vines with large blossoms you recognize to be nightshade (belladona). As you reach your hand out to open the door, the carvings move, and out peaks a small creature between the leaves. You can only really make out eyes and a vague shape as it blends in pretty well with the rest of the carvings. The eyes stare at you a moment, blink, then the door opens for you. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair that has obviously been constructed for a halfling, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in. In a small cannister next to the desk there is a bundle of sticks. When you look closely, you see that it is fletching for making arrows.
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Carindrina: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Carindrina carved into the door, surrounded by dwarven style knotwork that pulses and shifts over the door. There are warhammers crossed over your name. When you reach to open the door, the hammers strike together three times and the doot swings open for you. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair that has obviously been constructed for your size, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in. There is a weapons rack in front of the window with all the tools you need to maintain your weapons plus new leather wrappings for any grips that need replaced. There is a small letter on the desk with your name in curling, elegant script.

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Furus: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Furus carved into the door, surrounded by undulating bars of music and musical notes. As you reach your hand out to open the door, the carvings move, and a beautiful arc of a song plays, then the door opens. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in. Near the window is a stand for your instrument with extra strings and horsehair for your bow, and small tools needed to maintain your instrument.
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Midna: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Midna elegantly carved into the wood. There is a beautiful sleeping dragon carved into the door, curled around your name. You put your hand on the door and the dragon lifts its head to look at you, nods, and the door swings open. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair with indentations that are large enough to accommodate your wings, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in.

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Nira: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Nira carved into the door, surrounded by strange archaic symbols that you recognize as Protean designs (think the time lord language). They shift in and out as the carvings move around the door. You reach your hand out to open it, and the pattern stops moving, then shifts to say "Welcome, Master Nira" in Protean. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair that has obviously been constructed for you, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in. There is a small altar in front of the window so you can meditate and prepare spells with ease.

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Venus: When you go into the house, you go upstairs and see that there is a door with the name Venus carved into the door, surrounded by carvings of several large sleeping cats. You reach your hand out to open it, and the cats sit up, alert, staring at you from their serious wooden faces. Seeming to accept you, one stretches out lazily and hops down to the handle, batting it to open the door and reveal the room. Inside the room is elegant, but clearly has been made to try to make you comfortable. There is a large overstuffed chair that has obviously been constructed for you, with a small ottoman for Perry, a small desk with a stool and writing utensils, a safe, and a medium sized bed. The window is closed, but light is coming in. There is a small basket of toys for Perry and another pillow in the sunbeam.

The palace rises up out of the ground in beautiful turrets formed from the rare Jade Trees native to the East Fingerling Islands. Their soft, luminous green color swirls in the dappled light, and there is a winding path made of small colored river stones in a beautiful mosaic pattern leading to the entrance, which is a large sweeping curtain of greenery and jasmine flowers. You enter a brightly lit courtyard with several cherry trees in full bloom. There is a stone fountain softly bubbling in the center, and stone benches placed under the cherry trees littered with a soft dusting of pink petals. There are several open arches around the courtyard leading into the main building, and two sets of curving staircases that frame the back wall leading up to the balcony and upstairs rooms. The rooms are all fairly similar, large fluffy beds with mounds of pillows and soft moss carpets on the stone floors. The walls are all the milky green of the living Jade trees that make up the palace. The rooms are lit with soft light filtering in from the forest, and the roof is a canopy of leaves and vines. Jasmine blooms cling to columns and banisters. It is beautiful, but chaotic. Kitsune come and go through all the rooms, some in human form, some in kitsune form, and some in fox form. There are usually children bouncing about the courtyard in fox form and splashing in the fountain. There are also the royal family’s snow leopards that lounge about the palace, keeping a watchful eye on everyone as they come and go. They are typically quiet, but you may see them step in and intervene if some of the young ones get too rowdy. The guest quarters, and Galia’s room, is hidden on the third floor. While many of her siblings share a room, she was granted a private room in part to allow her to practice her magic, but also because no one wanted to share a room with her. Furus has a room next to hers, and she had a guest room made for Adalia

The poor area of Thornyside.

Onyx's Castle is hidden in a forest, but was accessed through a portal in the Balvonier tunnels.

The herbery is cozy. There is a large fireplace on one wall. The ceiling is strug with drying lavender, rosemary, sage, and other plants for spells. People also come to speak with Delphi Windlow and hopefully get a free reading.

The cemetery is divided into several areas, mainly grouped by religion. There are two main mausoleums, one abandoned (or perhaps now occupied by vampires) and the Glasserune Mausoleum. Surprisingly both of these connected to the hidden temples under Stoneblood manor.

This is the bakery owned by Eva's parents.

This park is where Midna first spent the night in Balvonier. A lovely park, it is near the Post Office, Rising Dough Bakery, and the Black Poppy.

The twisting, sprawling dungeons under Stoneblood Manor. James Glasserune seemed oblivious to their existence.

The home of the Glasserunes. A large stately manor, frequently hosting parties for the town, there are large grounds as well. A hidden door was found in the basement that led to a series of secret temples with strange mysteries.

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Swift's Market is a general store that carries most staples but can also order in any specialties needed for citizens in Weatherby.

The Black Poppy is the local brothel run by Lady Caltain. It is lively and fun. Prostitution is legal in Tricreche, but they must pay taxes.

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Lady Caltain is insistent on no slaves and no children, whereas other areas may not be so strict.

The Bloody Baron in is owned my Maria Benneton (Greenbrush) and Arthur Benneton.

Yvaine Stormhold runs this shop. She sells herbs, books, and other magical items, but can procure anything you might need. She has magical workshops in the back that can be rented in two hour increments.

This is behind The Red Pony Tavern and Bloody Baron Inn, owned by Talia Greenbrush. Eleanor enjoyed coming to play with the horses.

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The Red Pony Tavern is owned by Talia Greenbrush. It is the largest tavern in town and placed directly in the town square, so it is always busy.

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The Roueda connects all the towns around Tricreche. A circular road that is surrounded by Wyrmwood Forest and encapsulates the Dumbraava, it is a road of many tricks. How long is the Roueda? Depends on the day.

Recently discovered by the group, The White Poppy is the drug den in the basement of The Black Poppy.

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An unknown woman was seen here with James Glasserune and an infant.

The large, round, gold tower is home to the assasin's guild in Balvonier

The Town Guard's headquarters are located about two blocks from the town square. The guards are all very friendly, and usually not very busy unless there is a festival.

These underground caverns connect various places in Balvonier. So far the group has found a door in The Red Pony Tavern and an exit to an underground lake.

Weatherby is a friendly city. More organized in a grid than Balvonier, but still a little disorienting with the trees pressing in from all sides.

The main area of the Wyrmwood Court is a large ring of Feyblossom trees with ornate silver columns forming an entryway to the heart of the court and an arch of branches forming the exit to the forest. The grass is lush and dense, and the air smells of dew and leaves.