Codex reading
Tavern Patrons as a role in the hidden-road world
The tavern patron line is important because Via Occulta needs rooms where danger is processed socially rather than fought directly. Drinkers, watchers, and thinkers are how a town metabolizes rumor, fatigue, and dread.
They add temperature: the sense that travel produces waiting, reflection, and unease before anyone opens the next gate.
