11. THE FELLOWSHIP OF SALTERS, PACKERS, AND
JOINERS
Master: Rahannsoz Burihildar (0 level fighter)
Headquarters: Shippers’ Hall, #256, Oar Alley, Dock
Ward
Livery: yellow cloaks and high-peaked caps with a black
spoked carriage wheel on the breast and center brim,
with a black sail curved around it
Entrance: 5 gp: only upon acceptance by the Master
Dues: 3 sp/month
Contact: Baerlos Dunthar, Shippers’ Hall

This guild employs many young boys as runners, to
keep its constantly-moving members in contact with
each other and with the Master at Shippers’ Hall. Salters,
packers, and joiners are the professionals at preparing
goods for shipping long distances. Their fees vary; so
much per cargo, depending upon how much is to be
packed (and how difficult the task is, measured in terms
of the time it will necessarily take) and the coat of the
packing materials. Joiners make shipping crates out of
finished lumber after the salters (who employ brine, salt,
and many other preservatives, to protect perishable
goods, such as meat or fish) and packers have wrapped
(in cotton, canvas, hide, or even clay, baked hard) and
prepared goods for travel. Guildmembers travel about
the City in response to orders sent in to Shippers’ Hall by
various merchants, packing goods (especially delicate or
perishable items) for travel out of Waterdeep—although
much of their work is in the docks area. Almost everything
carried on shipboard, if not already in a barrel,
does better crated than not. An hour’s crating by two Fellowship
members might suffice to prepare the entire
belongings of one adventurer for sea travel, in one
readily-opened chest (for items used often) and three to
five large crates, and would cost a total of 3 gp for the
labor and materials. Members of this guild do not stack
or carry crates they have finished, but go on to another
job. A client must hire members of The Fellowship of
Carters and Coachmen, or the Watermen, to move such
items to the conveyance they will travel in. The Guild
maintains stocks of packing, materials for its members
(not all clients provide such).