Editing Diners of Amber (section)

===<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">'''Lisel’s Teahouse'''</div>===
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Lisel’s Teashouse is a tiny place on wheels. A collection of Vardo Wagons in the center of the big city.  It can be found in the megatroplois of Unkantar.  This highly technological world has a lot of people of a wide variety of shapes and sizes.  It has technological wonders and gigantic corporations.  It has urban centers with populations of over a million in a single [[Arcology]].  Most urban centers have several archologies besides having spread out metropolitan regions.  This planet also has vast agribusiness empires that feed the multitude not lucky enough to live in the tightly controlled Arcologies. (See [[Arcology]])

Stress between the arcologies and the urban centers they stand above is high.

Yet strolling among the shadows of the high-rises and the travel centers of the arcologies is a collection of gypsy Vardo wagons pulled by very tough looking mules.  A large modern cargo truck follows the wagons as well.  Gently urging them onward from the front reclining seat of the lead wagon is a short and well stuffed woman with long gray hair turned up under a straw hat.  This is Lisel.  When she parks for the evening, usually near some cultural event or activity,  a whole little village appears.  A small village.  A fire pit is set up and a fire lit.  Chairs are set out.  Samovars are set up on tables next to the wagon.  Silver, gold, mithril, and glass start brewing a variety of fragrant teas. Homemade cheeses, jams, and handmade crackers and scones appear.
  
Lisel is a wonderful talker, a historian, and a bit of a fortune teller.  People come and gawk at this rustic woman in her homespun garb with her painted mules, colorful wagons and strange collection of attendants.  People look her over but for some reason few come to take seats at the fire in one of her available folding chairs.  But some do.  They soon have tea in their hands and Lisel is happy to read their tea leaves once they are done.

She does not charge for the readings.  But a donation jar clearly encourages generosity.

She has three constant companions beyond the collection of animals that are plainly visible when she settles in to camp for an evening.  One is a short elvish looking hobbit with a very discerning palate for teas.  His name is Antil Gardener and he can talk tea for weeks.  One is a fat hobbit who tends the fire and the dinner fair, named Largo Baggins.  One is a Leprechaun named Vonny who seems very quiet and withdrawn for a leprechaun but is a whirlwind of activity, silently taking cus, refilling cups, bringing nibbles.  She tends to stay away from the animals who seem to fear her. 

Another frequent traveling companion is Gacia, also know as Grace, daughter of Evelyn, granddaughter of Oberon.  She rarely brings up her heritage and depends on her harpist skills.

That the presence of hobbits and leprechauns does not shock the populace is a sign that these creatures, if extremely rare, are not unheard of on this world.

<span style=color:darkgreen>Addendum

<span style=color:darkgreen>Alright.  I went and spoke to Lisel and I had a horrifying shock.  She is wonderful.  She is knowledgeable.  She is funny as heck.  However, she is a dangerous.  She comes from deep in the gamer worlds and from sections of it that interact with the [[Tosa/York]] universe.  I have a particular horror of this region of shadow for personal reasons.  There is a vast variety of peoples with a incredibly diverse collection of powers.  

<span style=color:darkgreen>So Lisel turns out to once have been the Paramount Arch-Druid and Seer of realms closely connected to the fallen Shade of Amber in the [[Tosa/York]]. Realms destroyed in the fall. I am relativly certain, if the research was done, that she might turn out to have been Fiona in that shade of Amber before it fell; Now living under a new name. She went into Exile by the assistance of [[Tolknor]] of York. She gained a Broken Pattern Imprint along the way of the Highest order. The hobbits were Arch-druids in their own rights who fled with Lisel to York. The leprechaun is another refugee but she is not running from shadows.  She is [[Vonnilia]] and is a crazy scary little piece of unfettered powers who has lain with monsters best not named, bore their children and does not sleep well.  She only feels safe around Lisel, or when on a mission for [[CHAD]].  I have my reasons for distrusting [[CHAD]], and Vonny is one of them.