Tatha's Broomworks

Tatha's Broomworks was a small business near Elturel owned by Tatha Beruel circa the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR. She sold brooms in bulk, wooden spars, and herbs from her gardens. However, the majority of visitors to the Broomworks came to see Tatha herself and bargain with her to use her special gift.

Location
Tatha's Broomworks was a part of her leaf farm she called Aloum Lyndren that was located a few miles west of Elturel on Skuldask Road in the Fields of the Dead. Her place was on the north side of the road and, when the weather was clear, the walls of the city were still visible looking from atop Vixen Rise (the easternmost hill on her property).

Structure
The two primary structures on the farm were her dwelling and her barn. Both were underground single-story buildings lined with stone and roofed with sod that held her herb gardens. The barn could be identified by the three large wooden chairs, two sawhorses, and a chopping block in front of the double doors that led to the interior. Her house was the structure with a sign and a bell hung on a tree a few paces from her front door. There were two outhouses a short walk down a path from her home, one in good repair and one very dilapidated.

Interior
The barn held a grinding wheel and stacks of wood in various stages of seasoning and preparation for making broom and spars. This was the Broomworks, although, in good weather she did most of her work sitting in a chair outside.

The house had a main kitchen and living area, and two bedrooms. The main room contained a big hearth, a rocking chair, a cutting table, and other household items. Water trickled into a barrel through a pipe from the spring and the overflow drained down another pipe to the swampy area at the edge of her property. One of the bedrooms was mostly filled with a large loom, objects that she whittled, and general storage. The other bedroom held her book collection.

Services
Tatha sold brooms in quantity to merchants for resale elsewhere. She also made and sold wooden spars in various lengths that could be used in making wagon wheels, pole arms, or as gaffs or yards on small sailing vessels. She was skilled at growing herbs and making herbal remedies to treat ailments of both people and livestock.

Apart from the wares she sold to traveling merchants, many folks from all over Faerûn came to Aloum Lyndren to ask Tatha to use "her gift from Mystra", as she called it. Tatha had but to touch a magic item and experience a brief trance where she usually saw at least fleeting scenes of past uses of the item. Upon emerging from her trance, she could describe her visions in detail. The visions were just that&mdash;visual images lasting a few seconds each&mdash;she did not experience any sounds, smells, tastes, or tactile sensations. These scenes often revealed a description of previous owners, places where the item had been used, and/or possible hints as to its function or powers. Her gift was not completely reliable. Sometimes the visions failed to manifest while other times they were strong and clear. Her minimum fee for making an attempt was 20 gp, but she was known to charge as much as 2,000 gp depending on the customer's means, attitude, character, bearing, and manners.