The Moon and Phoenix

The Moon and Phoenix is a shop on the ancient market square of Tyre, long abandoned but its stock preserved, found in session 1 when the party fled the blink dogs through its door. Its name is written in Celestial. Its keepers are long gone; the roof over one room has half fallen, letting in western light and grass over the abandoned years. Cold silver light lies across its stock, and every piece bears the same crest: a silver bird, head turned right and wings spread, above an upward crescent, on navy and icy blue. A swarm of pixies flew out of the shop when Nyra Vail called asking its permission, and a baker’s dozen of sheep graze one of its rooms. A stone tablet behind the counter shows four roads: the phoenix to the west, the mountain to the north, the sun to the south, and the scales of the market where the shop stands.

The wares

The armor fits itself to its wearer. There is plate that does not hamper quiet movement, gleaming studded leather that aids it, and shields that twice a day lend their bearer extra protection against a harm. Every weapon in the shop is magical and glows at the Celestial command words for “moon” and “dark.” The crest amulets serve a caster as a focus. The traveling cloaks shed rain and guard an unarmored wearer.

Leif Stormcloak took plate and a shield, choosing protection over flight; Asher took a longbow; and Niðrerir took a traveling cloak in place of the one the river took.

In session 2 the party went to ground here through the midday battle outside, searched the shop — the ledger and stone tablet giving up their meaning, gems coming down from an upper floor — barred the inward-opening door with glaives through its wall-hooks, and rigged their sheep-baited escape from its back room.