Quest Hooks

• The Tax That Eats — A village pays a 'grain tithe' to a shrine in the hills. The grain keeps something asleep, and this year's harvest failed.
• Heir to Nothing — A dying lord names the party in his will — they inherit a castle, its debts, and the three siblings who expected to.
• The Cartographer's Lie — A famous map shows a town that no one can find. The mapmaker is paid to keep it on the map; ask why.
• Borrowed Faces — People in a border town are waking up as strangers — same body, wrong life. The town clerk has the only ledger that still matches.
• The Bell That Wasn't Rung — A city's warning bell tolled at midnight, but the watch swears no one touched it. Three people left town before dawn.
• Salt for the Dead — A coastal hamlet salts its dead and buries them facing the sea. One grave is empty and the tide is coming in.
• The Debt Collector's Apprentice — A devil's junior clerk has lost the contract for a soul due this week and will pay handsomely to get it back — quietly.
• Wolves in the Walls — A noble house hires exterminators. The 'rats' in the walls speak, and they're paying the party's rivals to look the other way.
• The Last Performance — A traveling opera arrives in town. Anyone who watches the final act forgets the day they saw it — and the troupe never ages.
• Inheritance of Teeth — A jeweler dies and leaves a locked box to 'whoever can open it without greed.' Everyone who's tried has lost a tooth.
• The Drought Merchant — A stranger sells rain in bottles, and the wells go dry the week he arrives in any town. He's three towns ahead of a mob.
• Quiet on the Mountain — A monastery has gone silent. Pilgrims who climb up don't come down, but smoke still rises from the kitchen each morning.
• The Understudy King — The king has a double for dangerous events. The double is doing a better job, and someone has noticed the original is missing.
• Coins from the River — Gold coins keep washing up downstream, all minted by a kingdom that fell two centuries ago. The current runs the wrong way.
• A Funeral Without a Body — A grieving widow hires the party to attend her husband's funeral and watch the crowd. He's not dead — he's in the crowd.
• The Lending Library — A library lends any book ever written, due in seven days. A patron is three days overdue on a book that shouldn't exist.
• Frost in High Summer — One farmstead is locked in winter while the valley bakes. The family inside set a table for guests who never left.
• The Honest Thief — A burglar returns everything he steals with a note naming who really owns it. Three of his 'corrections' have started a feud.
• Marrow & Mortar — A new bridge is finished ahead of schedule and under budget. The mason used bone in the mortar, and the bone remembers.
• The Sleeping Court — An entire noble court sleeps and won't wake. The cook is awake, has been for a month, and refuses to say what she saw.
• Two Moons, One Night — For one night, a second moon will rise. A cult, a sage, and a smuggler all want the party somewhere different when it does.
• The Refund — A retired adventurer wants to return a cursed item to the wizard who sold it — and the shop has been boarded up for years.
• Wages of the Pit — A mining town pays better than any other and never advertises. The deepest shaft has a door, and the door has a lock on the inside.
• The Matchmaker's Ledger — A matchmaker's pairings always last — because she trades a year of each marriage to something that collects in person.

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