> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Fur and Fang > [![[Fur_and_Fang_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Fur_and_Fang.webp) > ###### Location Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Point of Interest | > Location | [[Val Miriel]] | > Defining Feature | Trapper's and exotic-goods shop | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Active | The Fur and Fang is a trapper's and exotic-goods shop in [[Val Miriel]], dealing in cured hides, rare furs, beast-parts, and the hunting contracts that supply them. Run by the trapper [[Gaara]] and his niece [[Kira]], it is as much an informal news exchange for the country beyond the city walls as it is a trading post. ## Location & Geography The shop sits along the Military Way in [[Val Miriel]] — the causeway running down from the Red Bastion through the soldiers' quarter of barracks, drill yards, and mercenary trade toward the Grey Docks — well placed among the fighters and hunters who make up its trade. It is a dim, rustic place: cured hides, rare furs, claws, horns, and mounted trophies crowd the timber walls, several too large to shelve, while a fire crackles behind the counter. Its iron-banded door, carved with snarling wolves and coiled snakes, marks it out at a glance. Nothing here is decorative for its own sake — it is plainly a place that has handled a great deal of real game. ## The Shop The Fur and Fang buys and processes monster harvest and exotic beast-parts, sells quality pelts, hides, and gear, and brokers hunting contracts for the adventurers and trappers who pass through Val Miriel. [[Gaara]] and [[Kira]] work it as a partnership: Gaara, a grizzled former hunter who lost a leg to a dire wolf, is the gregarious face across the counter and deeply versed in the beasts of the wild, while Kira is the sharp-eyed analyst behind it, appraising and processing what comes in. ## Significance More than a trading post, the shop runs as an informal news exchange. Gaara keeps tabs on the rumours filtering in from hunters and trappers working the land around the city — word of beasts, bounties, and the country beyond the walls — which makes the Fur and Fang a natural first stop for anyone seeking work in the wild or a sense of what stirs out past the gates. ## [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 22 - Inferno at Serenity Plaza]] The party visited the Fur and Fang seeking work. [[Kai]] won an arm-wrestling match against [[Gaara]] — with a little magical help from his companions — earning the group a contract to hunt a massive lizard-like beast reported in the woods north of [[Farhaven]]. #### [[Session 25 - The Chimera]] The party returned to sell the Chimera carcass and its parts to the shop for a substantial sum, and [[Ryo]] commissioned a cloak to be made from a pristine tiger pelt. #### [[Session 27 - The Wanted Dwarf]] [[Ryo]] and [[Eryndor]] called in to collect the final payout once [[Gaara]] and [[Kira]] had finished analysing the Chimera remains, liquidating the last of the party's monster harvest before fleeing the city.