Kleer House Inn
The Kleer House Inn is owned and operated by Zenarus Anagnostix, a 148-year-old Gnome. He runs the House with his extended family of nine Gnomes of varying ages, from 350 to 29.
The Inn has 18 rooms and 28 beds, a small stable with 7 stalls, a very nice bathhouse which utilizes a local mineral spring's water for its theraputic effects, and a first-rate kitchen.
Purpose / Function
A large and popular Inn offering rooms, a stable, a large bathhouse, and a kitchen that provides excellent meals at all hours of the day and night.
Architecture
A large three-storied building of stone walls and a shingled roof. The Inn boasts a rather dated and aged tower that overlooks the town and the lake (Loch Kleer) that is the most obvious recognizable feature of the property. Once a look out tower for the village, it is now simply a landmark recognized by all. The main portion of the Inn is located under and alongside the tower, with the Great Room coming off of that at a right angle. Connected to the Great Room is the kitchen and pantries with the owner's family residence on the floors above.
Defenses
Stout oak doors and shutters, thick stone walls and no thatch. Hay for the stables is kept in a covered rick within a walled yard to prevent the possibility of fire.
History
Originally three seperate buildings, the main hall of the Inn was the first village hall built nearly 200 years ago. The Great Room was a stone cottage built about 60 years after the main hall, and the kitchen/pantry/residence building is only forty years younger. All three buildings were combined and connected into one large, rambling structure that the Anagnostix family as spent generations repairing, improving and expanding.
Tourism
In the past, travellers to and from Dimrahl were the mainstay of the Inn's business. More recently, a steady influx of business has come from the desire of people to bathe and relax in the Inn's rather fine bathhouse. Mineral water runs in a steady stream out of a spring just under the bathhouse, where it is pumped into a very large, round stone cistern that stands 11' tall and 18' across above ground and extends another 16' below ground and holds nearly 43,000 gallons of the crystal clear, mineral rich water. This water is then heated with wood fires for use in several baths of varying temperatures from cold to tepid to near scalding hot. The salt-rich water is said to relax sore muscles and ease aches and pains as well as refresh the soul and spirit of the weary.
One particular boon to the owners of the Inn is that the frequent cleaning of the water heaters produces several hundred pounds of the much sought after epsom salts used in many magical and medicinal tonics, potions and elixirs and adds a significant source of income to their operation.
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Inn
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