Kurtzweiler's Toyshop is a toyshop found in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
Overview[]
Located on Masonic Avenue near Buena Vista Park, Kurtzweiler's has been in business since the 1890s. Its original proprietor, Felix Kurtzweiler was a nocker from Germany, gained a reputation making and repairing toys for the children of Haight's gentry. The current Mr. Kurtzweiler a grandnephew of the shop's founder, now orders most of his wares from distributors and is no longer in the business of repairing toys. A whole rack of video games dominates the front of the shop, and he'd like to get rid of the "antique toys" case, but his granduncle's will stipulated that he would have to sell antique toy if he wished to retain ownership of the place.
Ernst Kurtzweiler[]
Ernst Kurtzweiler is one of the Autumn People. He inherited the shop from his "oddball" ancestor and saw it as an easy way to make a living, particularly since he doesn't make or repair toys, he just sells them.
The shop is saturated with Banality and any fae who enters it must struggle to avoid being overcome by its pull. Ernst may even unwittingly "attack" a character who comes off as too "whimsical."
References[]
- CTD: Changeling: The Dreaming Rulebook, p. 272