Saint Sephaton’s Wine Garden (Patreon)

Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw these, I also have the overhead views drawn out on a map of the city block as I go, so when the series is complete you can use them on their own, or as a fully mapped out block of shops.

This is our sixth shop on the street, the northernmost of the shops along Market Street for this series of maps. Saint Sephaton’s Wine Garden is named after the church that once stood here and whose catacombs the building still conceals.

The wine garden itself is a small open-air seating area (that gets tarped over in the colder, wetter season) with an attached building where the wine is kept and above which the manager of the establishment lives. The sign out front is a painting of the titular Saint in the act of pouring a large vase of wine into a pyramid of six cups.

The majority of the wines served here are from local stocks, with a few of the more popular imports in the mix. However, there are a few specialties served here:

Dragon’s Red – a bold and spicy wine claimed to be made using grapes grown on hills that had been scorched by dragon’s breath.

Moonshadow Merlot – a very expensive red wine imported from the distant west, well-to-do people converge at the wine garden on evenings under the full moon to partake of it while claiming it offers them visions of possible futures when consumed on said evenings.

Mohrwood Mead – made from the honey of bees that pollinate the crawling and choking graveyard flowers, this rich mead is claimed to help grant peaceful rest and healing (in fact it does accelerate natural healing by 25% when consumed regularly).

The masonry in the cellar under the wine garden is of exceptional quality and significant age. This was once the cellar of the church of St Sephaton and the fine stonework is a reminder of the history of the place. The secret door to the catacombs beneath isn’t particularly well hidden (the stonework is much more recent), but requires tripping a catch set into the bottom of the “door” (using a bent piece of thin metal typically) to open it. Beneath, the catacombs are quiet and musty, with a pile of heavy furniture and stones blocking the door to deeper catacombs that sprawl under the city.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 6,600 x 9,300 pixels (22 x 31 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) – so resizing the image to 1,540 x 2,170 pixels.

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