Beltran's three Bank of Meshtes writs

Three banknotes, folded small and tucked into the concealed folds of Beltran’s cloak, where they would have stayed if Aldo had not gone back through the belongings a second time looking for exactly that.

None of them is for coin. Each is a collection order against something deposited in the Bank of Meshtes, and the deposits are named nowhere on the paper: they carry a serial number and nothing else, so the holder has no way of learning what a writ will fetch until it is presented. Haudh-Gwenn’s bank trades with the Meshtes one, which leaves two ways to redeem one. Place the order in Haudh-Gwenn and wait for the object to be sent north, or carry the writ to Meshtes and collect it in person.

Two days later one of the three acquired a name. The party took Khudan alive off a rooftop and learned that Beltran had not been paying him in money at all: he had seized the bugbear’s two hounds and kept the paper that would release them, which was the whole of the fee and the whole of the leash. Shown all three, Khudan picked out his own before he would admit he had picked it out. The hounds were in a vault in Meshtes and only that writ would open the door.

He got it. In exchange he gave up everything he knew about the other five sellswords Beltran had hired to hunt the party, and agreed to leave Idir for good, no work in it and no travel through it. He was plainly surprised the price was so low.

The other two were kept and never presented. What is sitting in the vaults they draw on was never written down.