Shal Fendt

Born: 1307 DR

Age: 65

Hometown: Hillbrooke, eighteen miles east of Yartar

The son of a miner and a former miner himself, Shal is the proprietor, bartender, and innkeeper of the Shalean Inn.

Like most youth, Shal got out of Hillbrooke and explored the world a bit but never went any farther north than Neverwinter or farther south than Waterdeep. He never went east and never had any desire to adventure. It just wasn’t in his blood. A people pleaser, Shal has always dreamed of running an inn and keeping people entertained. He knows a thousand stories and can often be found telling tall tales to inn patrons. When he was mining, Shal was often chastised by his foreman for entertaining his fellow miners with his tales and keeping them from working.

Shal has been running the Shalean Inn since long before Thorgrim Nashkellan came to Hillbrooke. In 1337, when Shal was 30 years of age, the previous inn caught on fire and burned to the ground. The proprietor, a wealthy widow from Waterdeep who had been dragged into the frontier by her husband, decided not to rebuild and left Hillbrooke. Rumor holds she hated living in Hillbrooke anyway so she probably started the fire herself just to have an excuse to leave. The fact that the inn burned downed two weeks after her husband died lends some credence to that rumor. Shal decided to quit mining and build his own inn on the same spot. Lionel's father, Derek Stoutheart, gave him funds to get started. Despite Lionel closing down the mines Shal has managed to survive since Hillbrooke is on a trade route from Yartar to Silverymoon. Even though life has become more difficult, Shal refuses to leave. Hillbrooke is his hometown and he is intensely loyal to it and the Stouthearts. Leaving is not an option for Shal.

Shal never married or had any children; townsfolk assume running the inn has always been his first love.

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