*According to local rumors, a foreign individual hailing, it is said, from lands far across the sea has spoken of sharing the same last name of a citizen of Waterdeep*
*Some speculating - and, some say, disillusioned - sages have rumored that this person is a native of the land called Zakhara, and that this may be the precedent for the merging of two, distinct cultures*
*It is rumored that there have been some trading troubles recently among some noble families of Waterdeep. Is this a matter of bandits or a part of something larger?*