Lantern Street Orphanage is a charitable orphanage in Caldero, run by Gretchyn Tashykk and the guardian Rulfo, which became the base of Teo’s charity and of La Jabalina (“the Javelin”) in the city.
| Era | Active in 1824 AE |
| Spanish entry | Orfanato de la Calle de la Linterna |
Description
Imposing for the neighborhood but plain: two stories of damp dark stone, hard to clean because Magma Avenue, a warm current rising from the crater, leaves fine soot on the lower walls. Inside are a courtyard with a thin lemon tree, dormitories by age, a kitchen with a single large pot, and a small chapel without resident clergy. It smells of lamp oil and soup.
The street’s oil lamps, lit all night and tended by the lamplighters’ guild, name the neighborhood and the orphanage; the children sleep knowing it is never fully dark outside.
Administration
Gretchyn, an elderly halfling who has seen half a century of orphans, runs the inside: kitchen, clothes, basic schooling, children’s quarrels. Rulfo, a plain human guardian, runs the outside: gate, merchants, errands, fights among older boys. The house runs on their wordless accord.
Jaromir, a bright six-year-old who likes touching fabrics, is a recurring figure. Other children rotate: some go to distant relatives, some to guild apprenticeships, some disappear.
History
In the present cycle children vanished: two boys and two girls in the first count. Rulfo investigated alone and was caught by the Company of Laughter in the alley to Magma Avenue. Its hired killers, faces painted half white, half black, were torturing him when La Jabalina passed. Ayrton whispered “home” to the last thug standing, who fled. Lukas and Foggimer carried Rulfo, Foggimer healing him slightly, and the orphanage took them in at night; Belicio also took part.
The group went on to the Bazaar of Life and freed the missing children from the network of Keygan Ghelve and Kazmojen. Four children returned to the roll.
After losing his arm on the Path of Drakthar, Teo founded a charity based at the orphanage, channeling La Jabalina’s funds to Caldero’s orphans, lost pilgrims and destitute amputees. The orphanage became the operational seat of the group’s light pole in the city.