Lazy Wizard

The Lazy Wizard (Tembel Büyücü) is an inn in the small town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. It serves food and drink, but above all it is a lodging house of many rooms. The building is a tall wooden house of several floors that runs back from the street, with places to tie horses in front.¹²

The common room

The man at the counter, the tiefling Exalon, welcomed Ephorus when he arrived and, since Ephorus had no money, offered him a place in the common room for as long as he liked, though not a room. Exalon described the inn as the choice of people who want to stay cheaply. In the common room guests sit around low tables on raised floors and play at dice and cards, always for small stakes, for bigger games could draw the attention of Jasper's men. When a player claimed that a free seat was taken, Exalon said the table was empty, and Ephorus left that game with winnings.³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸

A place for quiet talk

When the name of the harbour worker Finart came up, Exalon moved the conversation to a table further back, behind the bar, and told the newcomers that Finart's mother was being denied her medicine. It was there that Finart later heard grave news of his mother and gripped the window frame until the wood creaked. Ephorus took a room for the night.^9101112

A separate room behind the counter served the companions for private business. There they tried to brew Finart's remedy from herbs, and there Ephorus gathered his friends to report on the remedy, its poisonous dregs and the green powder he had seen. In the same room they told Finart what his mother's mixture had kept at bay. The small kobold Pitt, with a little black dragon's head and a child's clothes, hid behind the barrels at first, then came out at Exalon's call to clean and bring tea.^13141516

Closed and opened again

When the companions came back from captivity among the goblins, the inn was dark and shut. A townswoman said its owner had left about ten days before. Pitt came out from the back, hugged them, cooked for them and brought water to wash; Exalon had taken his own things, but the inn's belongings were still there, and the companions found clothes, soap and their instruments.¹⁷¹⁸

When they returned to Osterhn much later, the Lazy Wizard's door stood open again and people came and went. Pitt now went about openly under Exalon's protection; some townsfolk still kept their distance, but others came in for food and coffee. The old friends stayed with Exalon and Pitt for three days, eating together and sharing their stories, while they waited for a caravan to take them to House Corvus.¹⁹²⁰

Towards the end of the companions' road, the old inn where they had once stayed was said to do little business any more and to have become a place where friends gathered; the companions talked there of the threat they had come back to face. Before the last battle one of them sat on the roof of the Lazy Wizard and wrote in a journal that this might be the last sunset, remembering a road that had begun with a ragged document and led to friendship, rebellion and the Empire's service.²¹²²