Connects to: 03.02, 03.03, 03.07, 06.10, 07.01, 11.05, 13.03 and 25.17.
Here, where the high plains meet the foothills stands the small outpost known as Uncle Bertie’s Trading Post. Hunters and trappers come here to resupply before heading out into the foothills and mountains nearby. Uncle Bertie’s also offers space in its large hall for people to rest, as well as some poor quality food and ale - often, sausage with goat cheese and turnips.
Uncle Bertie’s is owned and operated by a tough, no-nonsense retired adventurer named Maris Hallover (25.17). She set up shop here some fifteen years ago after a short (but profitable!) career as an adventurer. She is assisted by a goblin known as Shep whose life she saved from a vicious boar. Shep is grateful to Maris and assists her willingly, but secretly longs to return to his tribe. Only his fear of the boar keeps him at the Trading Post.
Subhex:
- Ilace and Jerrod: Uncle Bertie’s Trading Post is currently hosting a pair of Shuttered aristocrats whose balloon crashed nearby.
- Algrael the Gelderer
Connections:
- The regulars at Uncle Bertie’s have noticed Father Dorek’s Shrine (03.07).
- Shep gathers narcotic tea leaves from the ziggurat at 06.10 that can serve as an anti-toxin.
- It could be possible to make a profit by selling supplies from Uncle Bertie’s to the elves of the Timberlode (13.03).
- A riddling giant (07.01) sometimes frequents the trading post.
- Old Willie used to provide the Trading Post with salt but has not been seen from in some time (07.01).
- Maris made a lot of her wealth by raiding the ice mummies (03.02) and sold almost all of her loot except for one piece that she keeps hidden and refuses to talk about.
- Maris has explored some of the Rift of the Great Lament (03.03) and knows something of it.
- Supplies are running low and Maris is growing worried that something has happened to her supply caravan (11.05).
