Aside from selling poisons, antidotes, and medicines, the Talontar travel
Faerun as quietly a possible, constantly seeking out new diseases and
afflictions and spreading rumours so as to augment the reputation of Talona.
What seems to motivate Talonites in their day-to-day behavior is a quest for
respect: respect that is due Talona for her potentially devastating abilities
and due them as her representatives in Faerun. Throughout their careers,
Talona's clerics work with magic and study to build their personal immunities
to various poisons and diseases. Thus protected, they treat the diseased,
take employment as food tasters for paranoid rulers, wealthy merchants, and
nobles, and bury those who have died from diseases.