The Chronicle of Duskhaven ― Characters
the Unshaken
Gobe, the City's Ear
Level 7Street minstrel — you sing in taverns and listen everywhere
The Guild144 silverLast seen: Lantern Row
The Guild144 silverLast seen: Lantern RowWhat the City Says
Gobe grew up in the Shambles with no one and everyone raising him, and sings for his supper in High Market taverns with a battered lute he's pawned and won back four times. A pack of Shambles children follow him now, calling themselves the Gobelings.
Known Powers
Known Possessions
a battered lute the Shambles knows by sound alone — pawned and won back four times, and it still holds its tune better than most men hold their word
the Gobelings — four Shambles children who have appointed themselves his followers, small hands and many earsa scrap of oilcloth one of the Gobelings pulled off a Saltrow post — it smells of brine and tar, same as the man they lost at the tide-gatesa debt owed to the Guild beadles — small protection, and a name they'll expect to hear againthe Gilded Gavel's secret — his muscle-hunt was never Guild-sanctioned, and Gobe can end him with a song
the Crown functionary's description — a plain grey coat, a signet ring he keeps turninga sealed scroll stamped with the same ring-crest as the grey-coated Crown man
a heavy purse and a clean trailthe Gobeling Web trader subscription, three High Market traders signedtwo more High Market traders signed to the Gobeling Web subscriptiona half-learned warding verse against the drownedthe warding verse, now whole and proven in publictwo more High Market traders signed to the Gobeling Web subscription, 14 more silver banked
The Gobelings' Chorus-Bella named tavern and a deadline for claiming the Hand of the Thronea fresh wave of Gobeling Web subscriptions at the 30-for-30 rate
a Lantern Row backing deala standing daily payout from the Gobeling Web's Lantern Row backersa name: the High Market lender who sent the two watchersMaster Vane's own invitation — a folded note in a lender's cramped hand, naming an hour tomorrow and no other guestPublic Deeds
Day 29 Lantern Row saw Master Vane's carriage wait outside an empty tavern stoop at the named hour, and saw it leave without him getting an answer.
Day 28 A hundred chanting Gobelings packed Master Vane's High Market counting house wall to wall in broad daylight until the man himself came out rattled — half of High Market stopped to watch.
Day 27 He walked out his own front door in broad daylight past the two men who've been watching it for days, then spent the morning buying drinks and answers from Guild contacts the length of Lantern Row.made the Daily
Day 27 Walked out his own front door past two silent watchers in broad daylight and spent the morning drinking with Guild contacts across Lantern Row.
Day 25 Gobe and his Gobelings were seen going door to door across three districts today, singing collections in broad daylight, purses changing hands in the open.
Day 24 The street-performer they call Gobe walked out of a Lantern Row counting-house with a standing daily silver wage, his own name on the paperwork, the first street performer ever paid like a guildsman.made the Daily
Day 24 Word went round the Row by nightfall that the Shambles busker gets paid every morning now, same as the money-men themselves.
Day 23 walked into a Lantern Row counting-house and walked out with a standing seasonal cut of the district's coin, his own name on the paperwork.made the Daily
Day 23 The busker who cried 30-for-30 across High Market walked straight into Lantern Row and sat down with its money-men like he owned the chair.
Day 22 named a thousand-silver price out loud at the High Market fountain and watched a Lantern Row broker agree to carry it home.made the Daily
Day 22 Half the fountain-side stalls watched Gobe name a thousand-silver number out loud to the Lantern Row woman in ink-stained sleeves and not blink doing it — and watched her agree to carry it herself.
Day 21 cried a 30-days-for-30-silver special for his Gobeling Web at the wool-merchants' fountain; half of High Market signed on before sundownmade the Daily
Day 21 Half the market heard Gobe cry the Gobeling Web's new offer at the fountain today, and half the market signed up before sundown.
Day 20 half of the wool-merchants' fountain crowd saw the City's Ear step into a ducal-crested carriage and not come out the same man.
Day 18 set his twilight traders chanting "gobidy, gobidy, gobidy" through High Market's stalls as the Gobeling Web keeps growing.made the Daily
Day 18 The Gobelings could be heard chanting "gobidy, gobidy, gobidy" up and down the twilight stalls of High Market while two more traders signed onto Gobe's web.
Day 17 Two more High Market stall-keepers signed openly onto his trader web in the open square, coin changing hands in front of the whole market.made the Daily
Day 17 Two more High Market stall-keepers signed openly onto the Rousing's trader web, coin changing hands in front of the whole square.
Day 16 The street minstrel Gobe, newly named Hand of the Throne in absentia, sang a warding verse over dropped bait in the High Market while the crowd roared the chorus.made the Daily
Day 16 Gobe stood over the seneschal's own dropped bait and sang the drowned-warding verse whole in the middle of High Market, and the crowd sang the chorus back.
Day 15 Rehearsed a half-learned warding tune against the dead openly in the middle of High Market, lute in hand, a ring of Gobelings standing watch.made the Daily
Day 15 Gobe rehearsed a warding song against the dead openly in High Market, lute in hand, a ring of Gobelings standing watch.
Day 14 watched by half of High Market facing down an iron-gloved stranger without drawing a blade and turning the standoff into two new subscribers on the spot.made the Daily
Day 14 Half of High Market watched Gobe face down an iron-gloved stranger without drawing a blade and turn the standoff into two new subscribers on the spot.
Day 13 Gobe, the City's Ear, walked High Market pitching subscriptions to hear the latest city secrets, drawing a crowd of dozens.made the Daily
Day 13 Gobe walked High Market's stalls trailed by two dozen ragged children pitching a subscription service to every trader who'd listen, loud enough that half the market stopped to watch.
Day 11 Stood unshakable against a Crown agent in the open High Market, a silent wall of witnesses backing the move.made the Daily
Day 11 Squared up to a Crown agent in the open market and didn't blink, with a knot of Gobelings watching.
Day 9 Cornered the Gilded Gavel in a High Market alley in front of two apprentices and walked off with a scroll the man swears was never his to lose.
Day 5 turned a public standoff with a strange duelist into the loudest, best-paid night High Market has heard in weeks, Guild beadles and all.made the Daily
Day 4 commanded a market's attention twice in one day — once with a plucked string, once with the small army of Shambles children who now call themselves his.made the Daily
Day 3 the Shambles-raised minstrel lately playing the High Market, the Guild's district of counting houses — silenced a full taproom with one song, and the room stayed silenced until the last string. He walked out three silver richer and trailed by a knot of Shambles children who have named themselves the Gobelings. This paper has heard worse ideas than being kind to that boy while he is still cheap to made the Daily
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