Wallaby Shanks

Known as the Scam King and the Discount Wizard of the West, Wallaby Shanks is a human wizard of moderate note who has run magical and mundane scams up and down the Sword Coast, as well as across Faerun and Toril at large.

He was first encountered by the group in the sewers of Scornubel where he had been working out of small hideout, and apparently selling basilisks disguised as chickens to poor Farmer Brown. He absconded with his money and valuables, leaving behind what he couldn't carry. The group encountered his apprentice outside the town of Hardbuckler, the young human boy Gregory Trout, who had stolen a small gyroscopic device from the wizened wizard, and took off when Wallaby summoned an invisible stalker to hunt him down. Trout was being pursued by a human Constable Leeroy McMackin and his halfling deputy-in-training, Edwad Timberfall. The group resolved this conflict by destroying the elemental, and knocking out Leeroy and Edwad when they attempted to arrest the young, innocent mage-in-training. However, when the group tried to get the boy to write out who he had stolen from, a curse activated that ended his life in a bloody mess, but not before he had time to write out "Wallab", leading the group to conclude he was the culprit here as well.