The House of Stolen Kisses, situated in the centre of
Quent is the leading temple to the Goddess Callistra in
The Shackles. It is partly a religious establishment and partly a high class
brothel. As such the 'contributions to temple funds' that are a necessary precursor to time with one of the
priestesses are more expensive than the charges of other brothels and most pirates can only
afford them immediately after successful pirating ventures. In any case everybody knows which pirates have just
visited the House, as a ritual bath attended by nubile handmaidens is a required part of every transaction. For a
smaller donation pirates may just spend time in the House eyeing up the scantily clad priestesses and enquiring how
much gold they
would need for time with them.
It is rumoured that Tessa Fairwind has a lover at the temple and that this
was one of the reasons she targetted the acquisition of Quent in her rise to power. It may be, however, that
she visits the House for its other main attraction, its function as an information broker. Pirates are fond of revealing secrets in pillow talk and the House takes great care to never to reveal its sources. It does, however, see
the value in trying to verify its information by
checking the secrets it has come by with other sources.