Blackstaff Tower Description
Contents
Layout
Ground Level & Courtyard
- Courtyard (G1): X
- Gardens (G2): X
- North Tower (G3): X
- East Tower (G4): X
- South Tower (G5): X
- West Tower (G6): X
- Entry Vestibule (G7): X
- Audience Chamber & Dining Hall (G8): X
- Kitchens (G9): X
- Pantry (G10): X
Apprentices' Level
- Library (A1): X
- Parlor (A2): X
- Apprentice & Guest Quarters (A3): X
- X (a): X
- X (b): X
- X (c): X
- X (d): X
- X (e): X
- X (f): X
Master's Level
- Laboratory (M1): X
- Spellcasting Chamber (M3): X
- Components Storage Vault (M4): X
- Wardrobe (M5): X
- Khelben's Chamber (M6): X
- Study (M7): X
- Rooftop (M8): X
Cellars
- Stairwell Landing & Records (C1): X
- Wine Cellars (C2): X
- Food Cellars (C3): X
- Master's Vault Space (C4): X
- Escape to Palace (C5): X
- Hideaway (C6): X
- Tower Passage (C7): X
- Donjon (C8): X
- Passage to Sewers (C9): X
- Passage to Palace (C10): X
Inhabitants of Blackstaff Tower
Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun
Archmage of Waterdeep. Human • Male • Wizard (Noble Background)
Khelben is the most powerful and influential archmage of the Sword Coast, and is widely rumored to be one of the rulers of Waterdeep (though he never has anything to say on the subject). Allied to the Harpers, and instrumental in keeping the Lords Alliance (of Silverymoon, Sundabar, Neverwinter, and other good cities of the North, with Waterdeep) intact, Khelben is always working to influence this or that occurrence or trend, looking years ahead. He is a forester and a painter, and has tutored many mages of note (including Malchor Harpell, Savengriff, and Nain). Khelben is a tall (6'), well-muscled, bearded man with a receding hairline, black hair shot through with silver, and a distinguished manner. He is gravely wise, not pompous, and is fully learned in the history, lore, and traditions of magic as practised by humans in the North since the rise from barbarism.
