Mother Lyvia's

Mother Lyvia's

Old Town
Though officially just a tavern, there is little doubt what Mother Lyvia's is by night. Loud, raucous laughter emanates from it, and pretty women in revealing clothes lean out and call to passersby from a second-story balcony.

First Floor

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Second Floor

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Third Floor

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Cellars

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Residents

Mother Lyvia's is always full and bustling with folk. Besides Mother Lyvia, she maintains her son and daughter, ten girls and a guard who helps her son keep the peace. At any given time, there are a handful of bastards born to the girls living here as well, but once they reach an apprenticing age, Mother Lyvia sends them out to be apprenticed, with the mother paying half the price of doing so, and Mother Lyvia paying the other half.

• Mother Lyvia: An older woman, Mother Lyvia is portly and matronly. She loves nothing more than to see sweet young people having a good time, and to earn coin thereby. (55 years)
• Nymella Snow: Nymella is learning the business of running a bawdy house from her mother, and although she is quite attractive, she does not take clients herself. For the most part, she runs the kitchens, tending to the small eatables and copious amounts of alcohol consumed every night. (26 years)
• Falia Potter: A somewhat meek older woman, Falia was once one of Lyvia's girls, until she found herself with an angry, brutal man in her bed. When she tried to resist his painful advances, he beat her and managed to cut her face to the bone before the others heard and came to rescue. She has been unable to take a man to her bed ever since. Mother Lyvia couldn't turn her out, however, so she assists in the kitchens, does the house's shopping and most importantly helps to raise the household's children. (36 years)

The Guards

• Laswell Snow: A thickly built young man, Laswell is Lyvia's son. Having grown up around the Bulls, it is no surprise that he joined them when he was of age, and continues to serve with them. For the most part, however, he keeps the peace in his mother's establishment. (24 years)
• Harron: The tall, muscled third son of a farmhand from Donnershire, Harron is the other young man who tends to the peace in Mother Lyvia's. He is a skilled brawler and wrestler, and willing to face down even Bulls who get out of hand. (24 years)

The Attractions

• Olenna: The oldest of Mother Lyvia's girls, Olenna is considered mostly past her prime. Though she's still attractive and occasionally takes on a customer (usually one she's been seeing for years), she mostly helps with training the new girls. She has also been trained as a midwife and healer, and assists the girls in that capacity as well. (37 years)
• Hostella: Though beginning to show her age somewhat, Hostella has only to move to remind the others why she is the best paid girl in Lyvia's house. Everyone stops to watch when she dances, and it is said that her tricks abed are practically magical enchantments. Though Olenna teaches the girls the practical aspects of their craft, it is Hostella who teaches them skill in bedsports, for which she charges a portion of their first year's earnings. (31 years)
• Denys: Sweet Denys is one of Mother Lyvia's first girls, a local girl who was the daughter of a cottager from Filton. When it looked like she might be forced to marry a rich farmer who was known to have beaten his first wife to death, she ran away to Wisenwood Town to escape him. She is fond of telling people that if they were anywhere but the North, she might have run away to become a septa, but trees aren't too good at taking young girls in. She knows the ins and outs of this business and frequently keeps an eye out for potential danger from customers. (30 years)
• Rhaene Hill: A blonde beauty with lightly tanned skin and pale blue eyes, Rhaene is originally from the Westerlands, and she claims to have noble blood, inherited from the father who left her in her mother's belly. She originally accompanied a merchant as his traveling mistress to Wisenwood ten years ago, but when he died during a winter storm, she had nowhere else to go, until Mother Lyvia took her in. She is extremely loyal and intelligent, helping to keep an eye on the place and the other girls. (28 years)
• Tanda: Tanda is a woman with dark chestnut hair and black eyes. She is pleasant and well-loved for her bright, bubbly laugh. Though not the cleverest of Mother Lyvia's girls, she is a great deal of fun, loving to tease and flirt, and not afraid of touching others. (24 years)
• Cynthea: A beauty with dark red hair and milk-pale skin, Cynthea dresses in bright silks and jewelry that sparkles in the firelight of the tavern-room. She also has a fine singing voice, a sultry purr that regulars say sounds best when she is singing into your ear while sitting on your laugh. She is quick to laugh and witty. (23 years)
• Janei Waynwright: A lovely blonde girl with brown eyes and freckles, Janei is very slender and dresses in plain garments, eschewing the showy clothing many of the other girls affect. She is no exotic beauty, though that's her selling point - she looks like the willowy daughter of the smallcrofter down the road. (19 years)
• Yrsa: The youngest of the girls, Yrsa's mother was one of Mother Lyvia's girls, though she died recently of a cough and fever. Yrsa has grown up around Lyvia's girls, who are like favored aunts, and she's only ever wanted to work here, to earn the right to a room of her own. Mother Lyvia offered to apprentice her off or to find her a husband, but the young girl has staunchly refused. Her black hair, deep blue eyes and young curves make her a favorite. (16 years)
• Alyn Harper: Devilishly handsome, Alyn Harper has fiery red hair and sparkling green eyes. Though he nominally works in Mother Lyvia's hall providing music, he is watchful for those with an eye for him rather than the young ladies. He makes assignations by having one of the girls invite him up to her room, and then following later, so as to remain as discreet as possible. (20 years)