Black Shark Tavern

The Black Shark Tavern, more commonly called Dead Eyes, is a rundown bar tucked among the warehouses near the port in Valparia. If there was a list of the worst taverns in the city it would be near the bottom. The furniture is cast-offs or cobbled together, the floor stained with blood, bile, ale, and stuff unknown. Occasionally the owners will toss down straw to soak up mess and then shovel it through the trap in the floor.

Although the tavern is not owned by Eliskinder, he controls what goes on there. It serves as a front for his crew and a hideout when necessary. There are hidden doors and two different escapes into the bay that runs below. It may be a fire trap, but it is designed that way. Bribes are paid to constables to look the other way when bodies are rolled out.

The food is greasy stews from catches that did not sell and heavy bread. It will fill a sailor up for very little coin. Whores and thieves prowl the common room and anyone not watching themselves is likely to get cut.

The name Dead Eyes comes from the strongest drink in the bar. A clear liqueur that is bought from traders brave enough to travel to Xian. When its decanted into bottles a single shark's eye is dropped inside. They only sell it by the bottle and the eye must be eaten, those that refuse will get a knife in the eye (or so the rumor goes).

If you don't blind the shark, the shark will blind you.

Black Shark Tavern