Felogyr’s Fireworks

Avery Sonshal sells pyrotechnics out of the four-story workshop in the Steeps known as Felogyr’s Fireworks. The business has been in his family since Felogyr Sonshal founded it and gave it an alliterative name more than a century ago. Customers often call Sonshal by his ancestor’s name, and he never bothers to correct them, believing there’s no sense in changing a recipe that works—especially when dealing with smokepowder.

Sonshal has a plump, young-looking countenance and shaves his head. If not for his thick, muttonchop sideburns, he might be considered baby-faced. A wizard and an alchemist who is a member of the Council’s Eminent Fellowship of Healers, Sonshal detests the presence of nonmagical hangers-on in the guild, such as botanists and surgeons.

Felogyr’s Fireworks has retained a monopoly on smokepowder production in the city since the business’s inception. Even the priests of Gond come to Felogyr’s to fill their needs. In exchange, Sonshal has never sold smokepowder to anyone not of the temple of Gond or the Council of Four, except in the form of fireworks. The shop does sell other items to a broad clientele, specializing in torches and candle wicks whose flames burn in various hues; smoke and flash effects for stage productions; and various flashfire rubs, which are spread on meats before they’re set alight to add distinctive smoky flavors.

Torches that burn a rosy red are Sonshal’s top selling item. Baldurians use them to illuminate a traditional cobble party, or outdoor storytelling session. When passersby see a rose torch lighting a street corner, an alley, or a courtyard, they recognize that the symbol signifies an opportunity to hear and tell tales of all kinds. The stories can be true or fiction. By custom, cobble parties are quiet and polite affairs that do not involve drinking or music.

Type

Workshop

Parent Location

Lower City