Compass & Quill

Cartographer

Overview

A quaint cartographer’s shop filled with hand-drawn maps, navigational instruments, travel journals, inks, and surveying tools. Its maps are continually updated using notes and corrections supplied by Remketh’s wandering travelers, and the proprietor is always willing to trade coin or store credit for reliable information from places beyond their current charts.

Proprietor

Calder Venn

Minotaur – Cartographer

Calder considers every new road, hidden trail, and forgotten landmark another small piece of Vaeria worth preserving. Though he can perfectly recall anywhere he has traveled himself, most of his maps depict places he never will, and he takes particular pride in turning the scattered memories of Remketh’s wanderers into knowledge that will outlive them.

Wares & Services

  • City Maps
    • Detailed maps of major cities and settlements throughout Vaeria, including streets, districts, major landmarks, gates, docks, and commonly traveled routes.
  • Regional Maps
    • Maps covering roads, settlements, rivers, terrain, borders, and major geographic features across larger areas.
  • Wilderness Maps
    • More specialized maps showing trails, passes, water sources, dangerous terrain, known ruins, caves, and other features useful to travelers away from established roads.
  • Nautical Charts
    • Coastlines, harbors, reefs, currents, depths, hazards, and established sailing routes. Quality and completeness vary considerably depending upon the region.
  • Atlases
    • Large bound collections of regional maps, geographic information, trade routes, and major settlements.
  • Traveler’s Compass
    • A rugged magnetic compass in a protective brass case, designed to survive life on the road.
  • Mariner’s Compass
    • A larger stabilized compass designed for use aboard ships.
  • Surveyor’s Kit
    • Measuring line, stakes, sighting tools, compass, plumb line, notebooks, and other equipment for accurately measuring and mapping terrain.
  • Cartographer’s Kit
    • Pens, inks, measuring tools, rulers, dividers, parchment, protective tubes, and other tools used to create and reproduce maps.
  • Weatherproof Map Case
    • A rigid leather tube treated against rain and moisture, with separate compartments for several rolled maps.
  • Traveler’s Atlas
    • A compact bound atlas specifically designed for use on the road, with durable pages and space for the owner to make annotations.
  • Map Copying
    • A professional reproduction of an existing map.
  • Map Updating
    • Bring in an outdated map and the shop will incorporate newer information from its records.
  • Custom Map
    • Commission a map covering a particular region, route, property, settlement, or other location.
  • Route Planning
    • Tell the proprietor where you’re going and he’ll help determine a practical route using the shop’s accumulated maps and travel reports.
  • Map Appraisal
    • Determines the likely age, origin, accuracy, rarity, and value of an unfamiliar map.
  • Map Authentication
    • A more detailed examination intended to determine whether a map is genuine, altered, copied from another source, or deliberately falsified.
  • Surveying
    • The shop can be commissioned to professionally survey and map a property or area.
  • Map Exchange
    • Compass & Quill purchases or trades for maps made during actual journeys. New information has value. A character returning from somewhere poorly documented might be able to sell their maps, corrections, annotations, or firsthand geographic information.