Sanctuary Bazaar
The Bazaar is a teeming confusion of sights, smells and sounds. Beginning early each morning, the crowds throng to buy the first produce from the farmers' market, then other items in the Bazaar itself. The crowded booths and tents offer every imaginable product, legal or otherwise, with plenty of food, wine and ale to keep the customers happy. Some people live as well as work within the Bazaar walls. Many of these folk specialise in fortune-telling, or provide services or entertainment for the daily crowds. These folk often sleep in the stalls or nearby doorways. In contrast, some of the tents of the Bazaar are taken down and replaced each day, as many of the merchants also have shops in town, and use the booths for illegal, shoddy, or cut-rate items. A character in the Bazaar will be constantly jostled, bumped and tripped by the throngs, making it difficult to notice when a pickpocket tries for their purse. A victim of a thief may find the Bazaar folk reluctant to help against their own - just another service provided to its members by this tight-knot group, who can rapidly turn hostile against outsiders.
Places
- Dubro's Smithy
- Corlas's Horse Corral
- Haakon's Sweetmeats Stall
- Kul's Silks
People of Note
- Corlas - a used horse dealer, as trustworthy as any in Sanctuary
- Dubro - huge blacksmith and peacemaker
- Hakiem - wizened storyteller extraordinaire
- Illyra - old crone fortune-teller rumoured to have true sight
- Blind Jacob - you never know when you will need fresh fruit
- Shive - one of the better moneylenders, pawnbrokers and fences
Law
The Bazaar folk look after their own, to some extent - particularly the S'Danzo. Violence or destruction of property will be universally responded to. The Hawk-masks will also be around, particularly after nightfall, or near suspicious foreign troublemakers. They enforce Bazaar justice brutally and efficiently, and are less corruptible than the guard, as they report directly to Jubal.
Map
This is an artistic rendition of the Bazaar by Braun and Hogenberg.
