Montague Fitzburg

A many-titled Laewendas noble who runs the forbidden Middle Tor mine — "his rightful lordship, the kind and beloved, the nobleman and gentle Montague Fitzburg," a name so long it "travels 60 feet." He presides over the mine's labour force with public trials and beatings, plays a crowd expertly, and rates a personal mounted Queensguard escort (Laewendas's capital-drawn elite) — a sign he is of real importance to the regime. His written orders and seal are what gate access to the mine's deep shaft.

(Heard as "Fitzburg" and, once, "Fitzpurke"; spelling unconfirmed — see Canon Questions.)

Session 50 (introduced)

• Runs a public trial on the mine's cart-stop stage, flanked by two Menagoles Clerics of the Crown, sentencing a beaten-near-to-death miner for slacking and faking his dig-weights — then flips the ~20 workers into cheering with a "the cheat cost your targets, but pay's going up, isn't Laewendas great" speech.
• Withdraws afterward to a room in the alchemy building under a mounted Queensguard and halberdier escort — the escort marking his standing.
• His real, sealed decree of punishment (a ~42,000-word scroll) becomes the party's target: Silithane buys it off the beaten miner for 40 gold and forges it into "descent orders" to get the mine's cage-hoist lowered. The guards accept it on the strength of his seal without reading it.