The Whistling Gallows The Time of Troubles & Era of Upheaval We would like to welcome you to our homebrewed Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Inspired By Ed Greenwood

The Whistling Gallows, previously known as Skeld's Place, was a large historic tavern and an inn, located in Lonelywood, one of the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale. The inn was a large log building with two stores located close to the heart of Lonelywood and was ran by Kieran Nye.

The inn's large taproom opened up as soon as a guest stepped through the front doors. The entire interior could be described as rustic. The log walls were abundantly decorated with a collection of antlers and taxidermied beast heads. A firepit was at the taproom's center, with roasts slowly turning, dripping fat and juices into the flames underneath.

Long wooden tables and benches were spread around the room, illuminated with candles. Directly across from the main entrance stood the stairway to the second floor. To the left of the stairs stretched a long barstand made out of a single massive sawed tree trunk with tree stumps in front of it instead of bar stools. Shelves full of alcohol, kegs, and bottles were behind the bar, as well as a small metal tub to wash tankards in.

To the entrance's left side, a small hallway was locked behind a door. From there, the proprietor accessed a small kitchen and the cold storage. On the opposite side was the room used by the tavernkeep as lodgings. It was a small room with a huge mirror built into a wall. The mirror, however, was "magical," if some were to be believed.

It could be opened, allowing passage to a secret room used by Kieran Nye as a wizard's lab, filled with books, enchanted trinkets, reagents, and a crystal orb perched atop a pedestal, radiating blueish glow. The lab's walls were draped in expensive-looking blue tapestries. Some of the curious items there included a rogue stone, a robe of the neutral archmagi translocation arrows, a flask of oil of speed, and a scroll of a rare mage spell – seven eyes.

The second floor was fully used to house guests – a long hallway of rooms with various levels of decoration, but most included a nightstand, a bed, a wash tub, and some had more mounted beast heads and wardrobes. The hallway was decorated with several hanging paintings.

The Whistling Gallows offered warm beds, strong drinks, and food to its guests. The inn had a resident drunkard who was also the entertainment – bard Murdaugh. If one were to discover Kieran Nye's secret, the wizard offered to trade some of his most precious magical artifacts in exchange for their silence.

Some of the drinks sold at the inn were simple cheap ales, Iriaeboran North Brew, Knee Cracker Cider, Luskan stout, Winter Wine, Bitter Black Ale, Cormyran brandy, and Moonshae whiskey.

As of the Year of the Weeping Wives, 1232 DR, there were no settlements north of Termalaine. The land surrounding the Lonely Wood held nothing more than several logging camps and trapper huts. The town truly was born with the construction of the famous Whistling Gallows Inn. Back then, the inn was better known as Skeld's Place, run by a violent half-ogre named Skeld who clobbered unruly patrons and used a tree outside the inn to hang those who wronged him.

At night, cold northern winds whistled between all the hanged frozen corpses. Soon after, houses started appearing around the inn, and more people started settling in the secluded northernmost town.

BREAKFAST MEALS
Peppered Bread: 8cp
Oatmeal: 4sp
Chicken Eggs: 2sp
Fried Potato Wedges: 2sp
Pork Sausages: 5sp

AFTERNOON MEALS
Beef Stew: 4sp
Stuffed Pork Chops: 5sp
Squab-Stuffed Pheasant: 8sp
Roast Beef with Cranberry Sauce: 6sp
Cornish Hens with Olives: 5sp

BEVERAGES
Whiskey: 6cp
Beer: 2cp
Heavy Beer: 3cp
Ale: 4cp
Spiced Ale: 7sp
Mead: 1sp
The upper rooms are very clean, and all except the common rooms are heated. Each room has a fine bed, many covers & blankets, a wash stand, chamber pot, towel, pegs for garments, and several chairs and stools.

ROOM NIGHTLY PRICES
(9) Standard Suite: 5sp