People of Moon Hill

Jolly Appleford

A short florid man in his 50s, now owns the tavern. Though stern looking, his face splits into a wide grin whenever he sees adventurers. He knows adventurers have more gold than sense and is keen to make them happy.

Dagfried Appleford

The adult daughter of Jolly and the second-in-command since the death of her mother (run over by an out of control cart while getting supplies). She is blonde and unmarried; plagued by suitors, she seems very irritated by anyone who hits on her. While her father takes care of customers, she runs around town, ensuring the supplies will flow. She inherited her grandmother's cider recipe and oversees the scrumpy production as well and is said to have nearly magical senses of when cider will go bad, before it happens. She also has some secret recipe that Dwarves go crazy for. Everyone will assume she will inherit and worries why she isn't married.

Donny Appleford

Ayear younger than Dagfried and acts as the cook; he is married with two daughters already; his wife Mary runs the family apple orchard east of the city. He is a master of mutton pie and mutton in general, though he makes a lot of apple-related treats. Donny seems totally content with this life and defers to his sister.

Jenny Hobson

The main waitress; she has worked here since she was eight; she's an orphan but no one is sure what happened. She's now nineteen and is known to spend her spare money on books. She had a boyfriend until recently but there was a fight, something about metal, and they broke up. Ralph is a journeyman blacksmith. (Moon Hill has three Smithies; all three can make weapons and armor and sometimes do for the Baron, but none specialize in it.) He keeps coming around, begging her to come back.

Elspeth Woecaster

A frequent customer of Worrt's. She is an old high elven woman with dentures - allegedly dragon teeth, but they kind of fit her mother rather well for that. She likes to claim she lost most of her powers in an epic battle with the Wyrm Golem. If she has too much cider, she begins shouting about how she is the Andromeda Galaxy, that the Dwarf King is a 'bitch ass whore motherfucker', that you should never have tea with goblins and how cider is her only surviving friend. It's well known that High Elves are often named after something prominent in the sky and that Elspeth is not a real Elven name, so maybe she is named after Andromeda. She does have some magic but it's not clear how much; she can get flashy when drunk, though. Her source of income is entirely unclear.