Fingling

Personality

Fingling runs a small tavern out of a burrow nobody can find. Lends out seeds, favors, secrets — always with interest. Smiles wide when you arrive, wider when you owe. Keeps the books in its head down to the last crumb. Only forgives a debt if you bring the right cake — and it has to be exactly that one.

Core traits

Where they live

• a crooked oak whose roots form the tavern's beams
• three unmarked entrance holes between cart-ruts at the crossroads
• a buried brandy cask Fingling repurposed as the back room
• shelves of acorn-jars holding pawned secrets
• a single skylight made from a lost coachman's lantern

What they eat

• honey-buns left as down-payment on a loan
• wedges of hard cheese given in lieu of seeds owed
• pickled walnuts a farmer brought to settle a grudge
• a single perfect plum cake (debt-forgiveness only)
• thimblefuls of pear brandy poured to seal a deal