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Censurous Public Opinion & Gossip • Daily

One of the many "secret broadsheets," no one claims to really know where their copies of the Mocking Minstrel came from. "Surely someone just left it behind," they all claim.

The reason for this is fairly understandable, for the Minstrel has been publicly censured by the magistrates and even the Lords on more than one occasion, so vitriol-filled and satirical are its mockeries of public and famous figures of Waterdeep. No one is spared its barbed quill: Open Lords, high priests, archmages, guildmasters, noble xatriarchs, one and all have felt the lash of the Minstrel.

To some degree, everyone knows that while not strictly fiction, the reporting in the rag does veer strongly into inflammatory versions of the truth. Unfortunately, most readers are content to read (and repeat) the worst about most folks who make an appearance in the Minstrel—up until it is their names on the page.