Waterdeep	-	The Guilds	-	The North
1st Edition AD&D	-	-	-	Forgotten Realms

33. THE SCRIVENERS, SCRIBES, & CLERKS GUILD
Master: Dablor Zimmulstern (0 level fighter, Scribe rank:
High Atlar, Guild Master)
Headquarters: The Zoarstar, #189, Quill Alley, The
Trades Ward
Livery: none
Entrance: 10 gp
Dues: 1 gp/month
Contact: the Master

This guild is a highly-educated, professional group of men
and women who letter signs, draw pictures (sometimes in
front of a party audience, upon a noble’s hiring), compose
and write letters, take dictation, design ornamental scripts,
draw up legal tallies, and set down records, contracts and
accounts. Many Guild members will even forge or counterfeit
documents (for very stiff fees, in the hundreds of gold
pieces range per document, because the penalties are so
severe: expulsion from Guild and City for very serious cases,
with amputation of fingers and thumbs added if the forgery
is treasonous or inflammatory, in a manner that threatens
the peace of the area).

The Palace retains a dozen Guild members at all times
to transcribe a record of all said before it, and retains one
scribe for each Magister (for the same task). The Watch
also employs Guild members to draw likenesses of fugitives
described by witnesses, so that Watch officers can
carry these sketches when on patrol.