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Black Scales

Summary

The Black Scales are mercenaries or a place/faction associated with the black dragon Infestus and later with Wrath/Kolin searching for Garadul.

The Basilisk identified the Black Scales as mercenaries working for Infestus.
Wrath/Kolin, a black dragonborn, would stay beyond the Barrier and asked to search for Garadul at Black Scale.
The notes preserve uncertainty over whether Black Scale is a place, group, or both.
Merfolk said the city of the Black Scales had a door into [unclear], with access requiring a Grand Towers penny.
Garadul had reportedly been in Blackscale the day before Baytail Accord and then returned to the dome.
Blackscale was using the party’s kings as servants; its boss liked the Barrier because it kept his head in one place and told Garadul not to bring the Barrier down.
TJ Biggins described Blackscales coming to his outside-dome mining town for tributes and then leaving; he also named the greenscale family and the Loose Teeth in the same context.

day-14: Black Scales are linked to Infestus.
day-21: Wrath/Kolin links Black Scale to a Garadul search.
day-23: Merfolk report a Black Scales city door and Grand Towers penny access.
day-26: Blackscale is active around Garadul, the dome, the party’s kings, and the Barrier.

Is Black Scale a location, faction, mercenary company, or shorthand for the Black Scales?
What is the Black Scales door, and where does it lead?
Who is the boss whose head depends on the Barrier?
Are the Blackscales collecting tribute outside the dome the same group as the Black Scales tied to Infestus and Garadul?