The boarding house is the home of its owner and proprietor, the rail-thin, pipe-smoking “Mother” Yalantha Dreen (female Tethyrian human commoner). Mother Yalantha lives in a cramped ground-floor room at the very back, and most of the other twenty rooms are occupied by transient laborers. However, there are usually four or five rooms that can provide an overflow for the inn if the need arises.

All of the residents have seen (or claim to have seen, at any rate) “brigands” lurking around Red Larch at night, not to mention monsters ranging from snake-headed rats to ghostly dragons that faded away when approached. (If you’re looking for NPCs to deliver more fanciful and outrageous rumors, the denizens of Mother Yalantha’s boarding house are perfect.)