Adventurer’s Rest — cozy-fantasy tales from the inn at the crossroads
Tales from the inn at the crossroads
Where three old roads lose themselves in a valley stands an inn. The dragons are gone the way storms go, the great adventure is finished, and the world is — at last — resting. Travelers still come. Each one pays for their bed with a tale of the road.
Season One
PrologueEvery Guest Is a Road
Three old roads lose themselves in a valley, and where they meet stands an inn. The great adventure is over. The world, at last, is resting.
Episode 1Mapping a World No One Needs to Conquer
The first guest of the autumn arrives with the rain, and arrives talking — a young mapmaker drawing a kinder map of the world.
Episode 2The Last Fire He Ever Built for Warmth
The man who mends the inn's fences never tells his road. But the first snow of winter loosens something, and tonight the keeper of stories finally gets his.
Episode 3Delivered, All the Same
For six years, the harbor letter-carrier held one letter he couldn't bring himself to finish delivering. Tonight, at the hearth, he tells Marrow how it finally arrived — too late for reunion, but not too late to matter.
Episode 4What She Plants at Every Dawn
Before dawn, in the inn's own orchard, the cloister herbalist arrives to gather, as she always does — until one morning she comes to plant instead, and the small difference finally opens the story she has never told.
Episode 5Every Road, If You Follow It Back
On the first evening the fireflies rise, a well-traveled guest finally turns the question back on the woman who has spent years asking it of everyone else — and for the first time, she answers.