“The Innkeeper’s Secret” is a tie-in to Beyond the High Road, book 2 in the Cormyr Trilogy. it can be found in Dragon Magazine issue #266, on pages 56-65. It was released in December 1999. This was the first fiction I had read in the magazine since reading Odom’s “Dark Legacy” in 2023.
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| story art by Carl Critchlow |
The story opens with Princess Tanalasta Obarskyr and Vangerdahast entering a village. It’s quiet, too quiet. This village is Torrinville, and the pair travel to Condor Pass in the Storm Horns, and Huthduth must be relatively close by.
They encounter an innkeeper that tells them not to travel the pass, but doesn’t say specifically why, just that they will need up dead.
We get an array of creatures. My favorite was the cultural play with cats, Cormyr being against harming them in law and custom. We learn of a Sorela Dunsleigh and Tanalasta teaching empathy, being neighborly, and gaining interests in “spellbeggars.” It’s a good little story, Denning is fine.
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