Jewel Box

The Jewel Box is a drow tavern in Menzoberranzan. It is located in the main marketplace, the Bazaar, and is owned and run by Nym, an old retired battle wizard with only one leg. Despite having no signboards or external advertisements, the Jewel Box still manages to attract a steady stream of shoppers and merchants. The main room of the tavern has a low roof and features sweet and slightly intoxicating smells.

Patronage

The Jewel Box's principal customers are traders and merchants from the bazaar, but it is also a favourite spot for disreputable males, particularly of the lower houses. Females very rarely make an appearance there, largely due to the higher status that they possess in the matriarchal city. The Jewel Box never turns away potential customers, however, and all are welcome (provided they have wealth to spend).

Entertainment

The Jewel Box is renowned in Menzoberranzan as one of the only brothels offering drow females; Nym maintains a number of female drow slaves in the cellars, where they are available for males with enough money to spare. Even though this would normally be treated as an affront to the laws of the Spider Queen (males are not permitted any power over females by decree of Lolth), the Matron Mothers overlook this factor; it is suspected that they take a large share of the profits as a "gift" from Nym to stay their wrath. The Jewel Box also often features live music and contests of Sava, a board game that resembles chess.

References

• Richard Lee Byers (August 2003). Dissolution. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-2944-8.