Gillian's Hill
The smallest of the four hamlets along the Trade Way, Gillian’s Hill doesn’t even boast an inn. A commons and marketplace lies alongside the road where farmers from the surrounding fields come to share news and trade goods. This commons makes an adequate campsite for travelers on the road, but offers no other amenities.
This hamlet stands on the east side of the Coast Way a half-days ride south of Daggerford and about as long a ride from Liams Hold. The community is named for a now-dead half-elven ranger of great beauty. Gillian Cantilar dwelt here in a long-vanished house atop a wooded knoll overlooking the road. Today, Gillians Hill is a grass-girt mount topped by a covered fire cairn used as a signal beacon to warn Daggerford of approaching enemy armiesfrom Dragonspear Castle or the Serpent Hills, presumably.
Typical of a hundred or more small farming settlements in the Sword Coast region, Gillians Hill is home to a surprisingly good shop and a dungeon that has both lured many adventurers hither – and slain many. The dungeon seems to be a truly ancient human tomb – as old as Netheril, or older, where someone of magical power and political might was laid to rest. Just who was entombed here isn’t clear. The tomb was pillaged long agofrom the Underdark beneath it! The location now serves as a spell-guarded entry to the Realms Below.
From the surface, the tomb in the hill can only be entered by wandering about until one finds the precise location of one of several invisible portals snatch gates that whisk any person or object entering them into the heart of the hill. Egress is by the same method, although the exit spots inside the tomb are apparently different sites than the entry or arrival locales, and hard to find.
Attempts to tunnel into the hill uncover stone walls that emit bolts of lightning when exposed to air bolts that continue to lash out until earth is thrown onto them, and they’re covered again! This magical lightning can easily stab across the trade road, imperiling all passing traffic. Several mages of power have tried and failed to remove the spells that cause this deadly effect.
Places of interest in Gillian's Hilt
Shops
Torleth’s Treasures
Oddities, Curios, Antiques, and Junk This shop is a large, ramshackle old barn that has been extended in ran¬dom directions by diverse hands over many years so that its floor and roof change level often and alarmingly, and a forest of rough tree trunks studded with pegs that hold mer¬chandise stand here, there, and everywhere holding the roof up. Cus¬tomers can often be found wandering in bewilderment in the dimly lit aisles, searching for the way out. Torleth Mindulspeer is a tall, cadaverously thin man of dry wit and a gloomy manner. He delights in buy¬ing old things, garbage out of ruins or abandoned buildings, and oddities dug up or brought back from the far corners of the Realms. Then he sells them to passersby. Want a dancer’s mask from the vanished realm of Valashar (now part of Tethyr)? A mirror that once hung in a Calishite harem—before some¬one put a magical painting of a slith¬ering snake on it that circles the glass by itself, moving constantly? Some old rope, stained here and there with the blood of adventurers? Some dusty wine bottles from a shipwreck, terri¬bly old but contents unknown? A book in a language nobody seems able to read? A stuffed wyvem head with one tooth missing? Some old court clothes from Calimport? Tor- leth will sell them to you—for what¬ever low price you can both agree to shake hands on. It’s a place some adventurers refuse to pass without striding in for just a quick look around—a look that can last all morning, of course. On a recent visit, I found a scabbard that was once worn in Evermeet—now minus its gems and magic, of course, but still a splendid trophy. Thieves, bards, and actors get many of their costumes and props here, Torleth told me—and I believe him. There’s a tale told in Gillian’s Hill— among the stolid farmers, who lack an inn or tavern and gather of evenings when the weather’s good in each other’s orchards to smoke and share the contents of a keg rolled out of one of their cellars or bought from a caravan—of someone who found the crown of a barony in the Vilhon Reach lands in Torleth’s and bought it for 33 pieces of gold! There’s another about an artist’s sketchbook that con¬tained a powerful spell written in code and scattered in the illustrations throughout the pages that a sharp¬eyed wizard had for 11 gp. A third tale tells of a magical ring of resistance sold by Torleth for 4,000 gp that turned out to have several other pow¬ers, such as the ability to emit an invisible sword blade that could cut magical barriers and the means to let the wearer jump. Such rings are called Harvyn’s rings according to Elminster, after the mage who devised them. There are— as far as Harvyn’s writings can be trusted—only six in existence, and their powers are considerable. Torleth also sells tents from armies that no longer exist, polearms gleaned from battlefields up and down the Coast, helms that fit giants and helms only a sprite could don, ship steering oars that are 50 feet long, teeth from dragons that aren’t much shorter, stone lions and weirder beasts from half a hundred demolished mansions, fading coats- of-arms (on shields, wall bosses, and surcoats) of forgotten noble families, coracles, and more.Tavern: The Sunken Badger
Owner: Dee Littlefoot, Female Halfling Location: In a well-lit avenue with guard towers. The street outside has a weird smell. Description: The tavern is a brick large single storey building, with a brown shingled roof and vines covering the walls and roof. It contains an old-looking telescope and a large stew pot over a fire. Specials: Beef Sandwich with Sharp Cheese and a Glass of Wine (5 sp) Lamb Casserole with Rice and a Coffee (5 sp) Ham Burger with Garden Greens and a Coffee (5 sp) Blacksmith: The Copper Anvil Owner: Phillia Cherbounds, Male Halfling Location: In a major crossroads. The street outside is adjacent to a small office. Description: The blacksmith is a stucco simple building, with a brown tile roof and overgrown hedges. A small dragon's skull hangs over the hearth. It contains a number of crates stacked along the back wall and a forge in the shape of a dragon's mouth. Strange and dank, kind of run down. General Store: Bells Mugs Owner: Rosamund Hybrid, Female Human [Details] Location: In an adventurer's district of taverns and rogues. The street outside is adjacent to a large home. Description: The general store is a wooden big orb-like building, with a blue tile roof and well-made wooden furniture. It contains a taxidermied bear near the entrance and a decomissioned carriage serving as shelving for goods. Specials: Clothes, Fine (phb 150) (15 gp) Mason's Tools (phb 154) (10 gp) Mirror, Steel (phb 150) (5 gp) Small Cottage Owner: Lida Thorngatepot, Female Halfling The house is a concrete simple building, with a red tile roof and a row of flowers around the building. It contains a single bachelor-style room with a bed and dresser. In the middle of the room is a simple cooking pot over an enclosed flame. A bunch of dried fruit hangs from the ceiling in long strands. A cat rests lazily on the bed. Small Cottage Owner: Jillian Underrycheeks, Female Halfling The house is a stucco two-storey building, with several shuttered windows and a koi pond. It contains a single bachelor-style room with a bed and chest, along with a dresser on the far wall. In the middle of the room is a simple cooking pot over an open flame. Cured meats are hung in bundles from the rafters.Демография
Human (79%), Halfling (9%), Elf (5%), Dwarf (3%), Gnome (2%), Half-Elf (1%), Half-Orc (1%)
Активы
Size: 1 acres
Wealth: 425 gp. Max value for sale: 28 gp. Max pawn value: 149 gp
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