Whispers say the original ledger—now locked in a chest behind a false cellar wall—contains names that drove nobles into exile and once toppled a corrupt guildmaster. Older thieves tell a superstition: write a name in the ledger with red-ink and leave a black feather atop the book if you want someone's luck to sour. Some of the inked names correspond to people who later vanished, but skeptics note that most of those names were already on a number of enemies' lists. The true power of the ledger seems to be less mystical and more social: whoever controls it knows who owes whom, who can be bought, and who cannot.