The Burning of Rogue’s Roost

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**Summary**<br>
On this day, the home of the Haven Thieves' Guild, Rogue's Roost, was burned down, leaving the guild homeless.
 
**Description**<br>
As the [[settlements/free-city-of-haven|Free City of Haven]] [[organizations/criminal/thieves-guild|Thieves Guild]] grew larger, a central establishment was necessary to house the Grand Master and his staff. This became known as Rogues' Roost, the great warehouse turned Guild House where the Grand Master resided. As the organization became more elaborate, other functions were moved there as well, including trainers for apprentice thieves, a guild healer, dormitories for homeless thieves, and a weapons master to train the fighters of the organization.
 
The blaze was started by a [[organizations/criminal/the-black-hand|Black Hand]] suicide squad, which burned the Roost to the ground some six months ago, a great blow was struck to the Guild.
 
On the fateful evening of the fire, Grand Master [[people/azimuth|Azimuth]] and his ever-present guards dined with the members of his innermost council to discuss future strategies. He wakened later that night from a deep unnatural sleep long after the flames had begun racing through the building and found his bodyguards in a similar drugged slumber. The Master was forced to leave them behind to take the only possible route remaining through the ravaging blaze - the secret crawlway into the flue of the chimney. Even here, he suffered severe burns, and had the left side of his upper torso crushed as a section of [[people/brick|Brick]] collapsed on him scant feet from safety. Still his will to live forced him to crawl onward, into the maze of underground passages beneath [[settlements/the-labyrinth|The Labyrinth]], where he remains in hiding, plotting his revenge.
 
Much of the sensitive magic owned by the Guild, particularly the ancient and mostly irreplaceable traps located throughout the old Roost, was destroyed, as were many of the more recent blackmail files (which had not yet been copied and stored in the vaults). Even more tragically, from a gourmet's point of view, the wine cellar was not as secure as the treasure vault, and many of the fine wines were ruined by the heat.
 
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*Date:* 1171-15-13<br>
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*Alternate Format:* Earthday, the 13th day of Ready'reat, in the year 1171
 
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