Tulba is a fat, tubby, genial man, who lives and works with his equally wide and genial wife, Lella. Tulba makes good, warm cloth, but his other work is as a spy for the Merchant's League, a semisecret society working out of Amn. Tulba's work involves noting the new arrivals and caravans passing through, along with any local tales and legends and then sending the information via travelers to Amn for reporting to his superiors. Tulba has hired a young woman from Battledale, one Sarinda, as a woolwasher.