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The Bazaar (Stormreach)

Market
The Marketplace dans Stormreach

Patched and re-dyed again and again, the gigantic red tent that covers Stormreach’s bazaar dominates the Marketplace and can be seen from almost every part of it. Inside is a mess of walkways, smaller tents, and market stalls, all lent a reddish glow when sunlight shines through the tent overhead.

Here the traders would sell their own mothers for a handful of coins and compete enthusiastically with one another for customers. Only the most wily vendors last in the bazaar, so while the merchandise is good quality, buyers can expect to pay more than usual and are sometimes fleeced.

Denizens

Everyone’s selling something in the bazaar. If the PCs want to browse some random stalls and tents, roll 1d10 and consult the following:

  1. The blind half-orc crone at this stall sells statuettes of her clients’ faces. She feels their faces with her weathered hands and then carves amazing likenesses of them in soapstone or wood. Each statuette costs 1 gp and takes the crone about 1 hour of work.
  2. Roars, neighs, and squawks emerge from this expansive pavilion. The only House Vadalis business in the city, Tooth and Nail sells creatures from the continent’s interior. Inside the tent, cages and pens hold potential mounts and guardian beasts, as well as exotic pets. Members of the Handlers Guild keep the creatures from biting each other and the house’s customers.
  3. The gnome Hanruli sells tapestries at this stall. Uncannily, her tapestries all feature images of the PCs in horrific circumstances. One shows a black tower by a stormy sea, with one of the PCs impaled on the iron fence below the tower. The second shows a PC being ripped to pieces by the many maws of a hydra in a swamp. The third shows a PC as a vampire feeding on a family member or friend, while a shadow-obscured figure looks on in the background. The last shows a PC in a loving embrace with a beautiful male or female, who clutches a curved dagger poised to stab the PC in the back. Hanruli claims that her inspiration comes from her dreams, and she is just as disturbed by the PCs’ resemblance to her models as they are.
  4. The portly goblin who runs this booth sells spices from across Eberron. Fernian firepeppers and many other exotic flavorings are available for purchase. He also cooks up plates of squid with his spices and sells them for 5 cp to 2 sp, depending on the spices used. His six children, each more homely than the last, help him cook, and he tries to pawn them off on prospective mates (“He cooks good!” or “She’ll take care of you!”). The squid is delicious.
  5. A halfling peddler named Ilgargo Reddlin offers beautiful stones and shells polished by the sea. He is a simple man and collects pieces for their color; one of his treasures might be an undervalued ioun stone or a piece of ancient rubble that holds a terrible curse.
  6. A beautiful gnome named Ridara runs this fragrant stall, where she sells all manner of candles and incense. Everything from sandalwood incense sticks to candles that burn with multicolored flames line her tables. She has a limited supply of incense of meditation and one candle of invocation (chaotic good).
  7. The elf Garay Gyriaz runs Garay’s Games, a small wooden shop offering the finest in games, including Conqueror, Dragonhunt, Engagement, and Three-Dragon Ante. Specialty versions of the games—carved from livewood, obsidian, or silver—are available for wealthy gaming enthusiasts.
  8. A famous designer from Sharn, the gnome Tyzian Davandi runs Far Davandi, which sells glamer weave outfits. The outfits cost between 105 and 300 gp.
  9. A human boy is selling strips of bloodstained cloth. He collects the blood of criminals killed in public executions. Apparently, there is a market for these grisly trophies. The boy charges between 1 sp and 1 gp, based on the amount of blood and the notoriety of the criminal.
  10. Forgotten Places offers a wide variety of bizarre maps. A map of the Thunder Sea’s floor costs 20 gp; a Sharn “star map” pointing out the residences of Last War heroes and famous performers, 30 gp; a map supposedly leading to a lost city in the jungle, 100 gp; and a dubious map of the Churning Chaos of Kythri, 200 gp.
septembre 13, 2019