The Red Gauntlet

The Red Gauntlet is a tavern located in South Ward, Waterdeep.

This old, shabbily highbrow place is dimly lit. Its booths are always full of old men remembering old battles and slightly shady merchants conducting slightly shady deals in low, muttering voices. There's little food to be had beyond fried fish, waybread, and rabbit-and-fowl stew, and little selection (house wines and house ales), but everything is cheap: 3 cp/platter of food and 2 cp/flagon or tankard. Folk are allowed to drink themselves to sleep here. Those who become noisy or feisty when taken with drink are simply slipped a little sleep syrup in their next drink. Loud snorers are taken to a back room. Others sleep where they sit, watched over against thieves by the proprietor, Daunt Buirune, who knows what to watch for.

Proprietor: Daunt Buirune, the proprietor, is a retired master thief, although that is not common knowledge.