Essimuth’s Equipment

'''Essimuth's Equipment''' is a shop that caters to adventurers located in the Adventurer's Quarter, South Ward, Waterdeep.

The ground floor of this less-than-tidy two-story tenement contains this equipment shop, its wooden sign showing an armored knight walking doubled over with an overstuffed pack. Inside, the shop is surprisingly organized and well kept, a shop boy always busy polishing and dusting the rack of weapons and armor behind a counter. There are barrels and racks of nearly any conceivable piece of equipment usable by adventurers at reasonable prices.

The short, battle-scarred proprietor, Essimuth Lanys, sits upon a stool behind the main counter at all times of the day, constantly whittling and carving pieces of wood that he also sells as trinkets (his standards are little orcs that he often just tosses to children who enter his shop). His right eye is covered with an eye patch, a dull, jagged scar from brow to jaw telling its fate, and his right leg is replaced below the knee with a peg leg (also carved by Essimuth into a little owlbear bearing his weight on its shoulders and arms). People that shop here can expect great service in terms of Essimuth telling what’s available and how best to use it in the dungeons; of course, this is all tangled within somewhat long-winded stories of Essimuth’s adventuring days. He loves hearing adventurers’ stories (as it gives him an excuse to tell his) and continuing patrons with stories to share receive special attentions (and newer merchandise) than those patrons who “know better about their equipment ”or “don’'t have the time for an old man’'s tales,” who tend to receive higher charges.