The Cat & Chicken

The Cat & Chicken was an inn and tavern opened in Blackbridge around 5E.1485 by Gareth Donnelly shortly before he married his wife, Garnet Donnelly. Gareth Donnelly was an adventurer who defeated Rast the Baneful, goblin warlord of the Wosswood; he used the reward money from the Baron to purchase and build the inn. The bar was usually attended by Gareth, while his wife Garnet and the beautiful maid Rosie helped Gareth with the rest of his duties.

On the fateful night in the fall of 5E.1521 that the Heroes of Blackbridge met in the village of their namesake, they entered the Cat & Chicken and witnessed local farmhands Elwyn, Gyles, Robbie, Heulog, and Dick beginning to harass an elven woman and apprentice diviner named Raiwen Talethar, throwing racist epithets at her and accusing her of witchcraft. The Heroes of Blackbridge stood up for Raiwen while the staff of the inn and the other regulars stood by and did nothing. A fight nearly broke out between the two groups, but it was quickly ended by the fierce orc Volkarr. After the scuffle, Raiwen ended up joining the Heroes of Blackbridge after learning that they were headed into the Wosswood. Raiwen sought rare ingredients for alchemy called abyss leaves that could supposedly only be found in the Wosswood.

The Heroes of Blackbridge would return to the inn on occasion, but ultimately left the village behind. When Blackbridge was abandoned by most of its population after the fall of Newstone and the rise of the Rasping Pox, Gareth, Garnet, and Rosie remained to keep the inn, becoming members of Nordagon of Deminster's resistance after the Sunscourge Heresy. Like the rest of the Solist rebels, they disappeared with Nordagon, leaving the Cat & Chicken, along with Blackbridge, abandoned.