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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9364186" data-attributes="member: 12388">24 Marpenoth - LeaffallFourth day of the third tenday1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets RevealedHaskur's maps not so marvelous.SAERLOON - Shopkeepers at Haskur’s Marvelous Maps have temporarily closed their business after learning someone, or something, has tampered with the maps they sell. This, after three customers returned to the shop over the course of a day with an identical map detailing the layout of a wing of an unnamed castle, and each complaining that these were not the maps they’d purchased. Some information about each buyer follows.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The first buyer, the metalgoods trader Bondarl Skallthurth, is a regular customer of Haskur’s who purchases updated trade route maps every year and manages to consistently rise above the cutthroat competition between metalgoods merchants that supply necessary cast metal objects to crofters and farmers living on the coastlands shared by Sembia and Cormyr. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The second buyer, the scents and perfumes seller Telshanthra Alavonturl, is a sometimes visitor to Haskur’s, who is always on the lookout for building plans and layouts that “just happen” to find their way onto the shelves of the map shop. She carefully studies these maps to determine where treasures might best be hidden, then hires rogues to “survey” the locations. She splits the take on anything of value that’s found.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The third buyer, the half-elf sneak thief Filirya Belorbuld, was a first time customer of Haskur’s. She’d paid a hefty surcharge in gold to have a rush copy made of a map showing new connections dug between the cellars of the wealthier homes that overlook the busy coastal city of Yhaunn so she could return the map before its owner realized it was missing.</li> </ul>Haskur’s is run by Ravar Faltrond and Luthmarra Skuldarr. Both are skilled cartographers, each having no love for the other. They tolerate each other as a show of respect to the owner of Haskur’s, the master merchant Amreth Gaunt(1), who is responsible for saving both their lives and placing them far away from certain death. Ravar and Luthmarra are quick to speak of their lives “adventuring on the Sword Coast, before retiring far from the all the gods-spawned tumult.” Their story borrows just enough from truth to spin a convincing lie that shields their past from enemies who’d have the two cartographers captured if their existence was uncovered.1. The original owner, Yalaundra Haskur, quickly sold the shop to Amreth after she grew to hate her husband, Eldalan Haskur, and had him assassinated. Yalaundra remains in Saerloon, and spends her days dabbling in moneylending and dealing in gossip while watching for investment opportunities as Sembia rebuilds. </blockquote>

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