The Winter's Wind

The Winter's Wind Inn

The Winter's Wind is a small inn along the Kingsroad, a day after it enters the Wolfswood, north of Winterfell. A small hamlet of a half dozen or so cottages have sprung up around it.

People

• Samrue Ice-eye: Innkeep. A big, thick man, with a big beard and a single clouded eye, once lots of muscle gone to fat, who walks with a pronounced limp. He used to be a sellsword, but was grievously injured in battle. He'd gone to work for the man who'd owned this place afterwards, and married that man's daughter Clea.
• Clea: Innkeep's Wife. A salt-and-peppered haired woman, somewhat pock-marked on the side of her neck and up over one cheek. She is somewhat suspicious, but tends to keep to herself, mostly, tending to the cooking and the like.
• Yranna: Serving Girl. Young and fairly pretty, Yranna has chestnut brown hair and though her clothing is fairly threadbare and old, it fits her curves nicely. She occasionally makes an extra coin or two by warming a visitor's bed, but only if they're renting a curtained bed for the night, so she pays a lot of attention to those who get such beds.
• Lanky Lem: Ostler. Lem is fairly old, well into his fifties, with an almost bald head save for a short fringe from ear to ear around the back of his head, and tiny black sunken-in eyes. He has just enough skill with a smith's hammer to produce a mediocre shoe for a horse, and enough knowledge of horses to shoe one decently. He doesn't talk to people directly, most of the time, but speaks to the horses in his care.

Cost

• It is three-pence a head for a bed and meal with plenty of ale. There are four beds total in the inn, curtained away from the common room in their own individual nooks.
• Two-pence for a meal, cup of ale and place in the common room.
• A penny for either a meal and cup of ale or a spot in the stables (although Clea will feed the men of those who rent beds or spots in the common room and provide stable space for them for a single coin a head).

Provender

The inn's options for food are fairly limited.

• The meal for the evening is fairly simple: day-old brown bread rich with nuts and dried berries of some kind, a thick brown stew with onions and carrots and occasional slivers of meat for most, and roasted hare for those who paid well.
• A flagon of sweet red wine can also be had for another three coppers.