Archive:Greenwood's Grotto/2023-02/Sharburg

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 * query     = Found one more un-lored and un-known location - Sharburg in the Dalelands – the home of a decadent Beef Sharburg dish. Ed, do you have any idea where it is? I hate when writers and designers drop a name and say naught bout it
 * questioner = Bea Holder#4049
 * answer    = Sharburg is one of the Ghost Holds west of Essembra (ruined and abandoned mansions, mainly built by Sembians, that many bandits and monsters lair in, temporarily or until ousted). Sharburg is almost a mile southwest of the next most southerwesterly mansion, so “on its own,” and from 1441 DR onwards has been the home of a small colony of “artistic” (creatives, but eccentrics) retirees from Sembia, who tired of the ‘rat race’ of Sembian society and money, money, money, and all live together in an odd extended family in Sharburg and are fixing it up, piecemeal, as they dwell there. Some of them sculpt, some fire pottery both decorative and everyday-useful, some of them farm herbs large-scale, and some of them make stools and wooden bowls and the like for sale. Hidden among them are at least two wizards who can swiftly destroy marauding monsters or bandits who foolishly threaten the Sharburgans, but don’t advertise that they have the Gift or any mastery of the Art. It’s always wise to beware fat old ladies at the pottery wheel. ;}