"Inventor of the Loaf Index. Has not slept since the last rate hike."
Barnaby Tallowmere kept the books for a Shire bakery until he noticed bread was getting more expensive and could not stop noticing. He now tracks the economy entirely through the Loaf Index, the price of one honest loaf of bread in copper pieces, and worries about it professionally.
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The Merchant Princes of Waterdeep closed out a record week on Friday, the same morning ordinary folk reported feeling worse about their purses than at any point since spring. I have converted all of it into bread, and I need to sit down.
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