Esther's is a bar located near Whately, Massachusetts, in the Pioneer Valley.
Overview[]
An isolated roadside bar and diner, Esther's caters to a slightly older, more conservative crowd - the types who live in rural Massachusetts or frequently pass through it. It is named not after a person, but after the nearby Esther's Brook, a tributary of Broad Brook.
Esther's is the far end of a Pattern Line stretching southeast to the city of Holyoke, into the local Everlite Gas & Electric facility where the Big Calc took place. Originally created at the behest of the Everlite Drone, this Pattern Line was secretly suborned by the servants of Eater-of-Names into transferring the Black Spiral Dancer's consciousness into the bar. The location was chosen due to Esther's proximity to the bawn of the defiled Broad Brook caern. When the data transferred by the Pattern Line was united with Scarper, an in-progress vessel of the remainder of Eater-of-Names, when the Garou entered the bar, Eater-of-Names reemerged back into the physical world and the Pattern Line instantly vanished.
Upon Eater-of-Names' rebirth, the other Garou present at Esther's engaged him, destroying most of the bar and killing many of the inhabitants. It is unknown whether Esther's continued operations after rebuilding or shut down fully after the devastation, though the latter is much more likely given the extent of the damage.