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A. Oreld's Fine Shop: Owned by three generations of healers and herbalists in the Oreld family, Oreld’s Fine Shop supplies Phaendar with remedies, dye, glue, and paint. The shop’s owner, Vane Oreld is also the closest thing Phaendar has to a doctor. He resents the imposition and swears vociferously when his healing skills are required, but he’s too much of a perfectionist to let anyone else fill the role.
B. Phaendar Trading Company: The heart of Phaendar is the trading post, where farmers, hunters, and artisans come to trade, and where travelers stop in to resupply. The store primarily sells seed, timber, farm supplies, and contracts for raw materials, but all sorts of odds and ends wind up in the small shop. The current owner of the Phaendar Trading Company is the cantankerous and scheming local smith Kining Blondebeard , who was exiled from Glimmerhold for crimes she refuses to divulge. Despite her greed and lack of compassion, she lives up to the letter of agreements and turns out fine metal goods the town relies on, and so most locals accept her inhospitable nature as “a dwarf thing” and leave her be.
C. Riverwood Shrine: Most of the buildings in town are strictly functional in design, but the shrine was designed to be beautiful as well. The shrine is intended for any worshipers to use, but most people in town venerate Erastil or Desna, and so statues and symbols of these two faiths decorate the walls in the form of homemade amulets, artwork, and offerings. A stone shrine to the Green Faith—far older than the larger temple or anything else in the area—stands beside the temple, accommodating local Green worshipers. The elderly Nolan serves as the town's spiritual leader. Ostensibly he is a servant of Erastil, but the humble priest offers religious services for most of the town's major religions.
D. Taproot Inn: The Taproot—referred to simply as “the Root” by locals—is the only two-story building in town, and serves a wide variety of meals and alcohol gathered from travelers crossing the bridge. It’s also the largest indoor gathering place in town after the temple, and most of locals spend far more time in the Root during any given week than the temple. Ownership of the Taproot changes often as proprietors struggle or grow bored. It currently belongs to Jett, a recent transplant to Phaendar of mixed Shoanti and Varisian descent.
E. Phaendar Bridge: The Chelish army originally constructed this arch bridge some 300 years ago as part of the trade road connecting the empire to its Varisian colonies. Even after the army withdrew and its fortress crumbled, a town remained to maintain and take advantage of the reliable crossing over the tumultuous Marideth River. Phaendar began an intense maintenance process last year, recruiting the town smith, Kining Blondebeard, to oversee the project thanks to her extensive stoneworking experience.
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