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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9705195" data-attributes="member: 4937">The following all may be found in stalls in the market during market days.  Stalls are generally employed by both the lowest class of merchant (which these represent) and the highest class (wealthy travelling merchants hawking wares of such rarity and value that even the city has insufficient continual demand for such items).  Last names are not in common use amongst the lower class, with most people being known by their trade or a nickname or the name of the village or district of the city in which they reside.  #1: Bulcher the Carpet Monger: Human Ftr1/Exp3Bulcher is a travelling seller of carpets and tapestries who is seldom in the city for more than a week at a time. The rest of the time he travels to neighboring lands seeking the best homespun and foreign designs at the best prices, often off of ships from distant places.  He also buys and cleans and mends used carpets.  Big and boisterous, when Bulcher is in the market his voice can be often heard carrying over the din.  He is friendly to all and often will ask shoppers to buy him a drink from a nearby tavern if exchange for buying one of their own.  Paranoid about his investments, he never leaves sight of his wares, which he carries in a small wagon with two old horses from town to town.  He keeps a large knife under his robes and a crossbow close at hand.#2: Zephyr Ironsoles the Tinker: Dwarf Exp3Zephyr owns a small swine farm outside of the city along with his wife and two children.  On market days however he brings a small cart and a mule into the city with his tools and a tent and works as a tinker to pick up extra money.  He also buys and sells used pots, pans, and kettles, mending them and reselling them.  The odor of a swineherd often hangs on his skin, and Zephyr is dour and crude, paying little attention to manners.  He has a mutual dislike of Bothelm the Alemonger (#42).#3: Enri Cooper, The Cooper: Human Com4Enri Cooper is an elderly widower who lives in a poor part of town.  He spends his days making staves for small barrels and household pails, which he assembles.  He will also accept custom orders for staves and poles.  He talks little but sees much, be sharp eyed and eared despite his age.  Enri is successful enough that he could afford his own shop, were not his money consumed taking care of an invalid middle-aged daughter who was feebleminded from birth and requires medicine to control the pain of her deformities and illness.  He talks little of his troubles and is patient and well-spoken though with the rough accent of a commoner.  Enri is well loved in the market by all, and the whole market would rally to defend anyone who troubled him.#4: “Natty” Agnes Bagger, The Greenseller: Human Drd3“Natty Agnes” is a poor elderly greenseller who lives outside the city walls.  She makes her coin by gleaning fields and buying the cheapest produce and bringing it to market on her Mule “Pansy”, whom she spends her days talking to as if it were a person, often questioning “Pansy” about all her actions.  If questioned about this she will claim “Pansy” is the brains of the operation, and of course she must run everything by her wiser partner.  “Natty Agnes” is well loved by the city poor, for she gives away what food she can’t sell in the day and has the lowest prices, but she annoys more respectable grocers like Boernford.  For her part, “Natty Agnes” is generally sweet to everyone, if often unpredictable and prone to making too honest childlike observations of things other people would be too polite to say – often to “Pansy”.  “Pansy” brays loudly at any joke told in her vicinity, especially bad ones.  #5: Sondburt “Sweettooth”, The Treacle Monger: Halforc War4“Sweettooth” as he is most commonly known sells beetroot syrups and sorghum molasses and cakes of hard brown sugar.  His product is of high quality, and his wares even attract cooks and bakers of the upper class looking to add a richness of flavor to their confections and bakers.  Middle-aged, strong, and broad of shoulder, he gets his name from his one remaining tusk, protruding from his lower lip.  About half of his other teeth have been pull by Hamgil the Dentist (#45).  As successful as he is ugly, Sondburt is a romantic at heart, loving music, and pinning for the affections of the opposite sex.  He is known on days when he has made a good profit, to give out cubes of sugar or spoonfuls of syrup to waifs and urchins at the end of the day, and in the late afternoon many such will gather nearby hoping for treats to be given out today.  Sonburt is friends with Galter the Ministrel (#29) and Hamgil the Dentist.  He is envious and surly around Syrnred the Tosher (#41), who does not however return any animosity.#6: Wigmar “the Magnificent”, the Gutter Mage: Human Wiz6Wigmar is a 35 year old human male with a scar on one cheek, hazel eyes, dark brown hair, and sideburns.  He is somewhat attractive but has a reputation for sullenness, though he hides his true personality behind a stage personality when working the crowds.  He wears well-worn travelling boots that are rumored to be magical, and a long patchwork gleeman’s cloak with a high stiff color.  His clothes are travel stained but colorful and he carries on his back a large cloth backpack containing the tools of his craft.  He has a top hat which is frequently at his feet to receive coins.  As a gutter mage, Wigmar spends most of his days performing simple magic tricks (mostly illusions) for coppers and farthings.  For a few of 3 silvers, he will perform an elaborate street show with large flashy illusions and small fireworks.  He will also sell his services as an entertainer to parties.  Wigmar is not well liked by anyone, but especially by Guidmund the Busker (#8), Aldfirth the Drover (#12), and Beornford the Greengrocer (#17). These will spread variously ugly rumors about Wigmar being a thief, an employer of witchcraft, a murderer, and most especially that he has an unseemly relationship with his young apprentice Theberga (#7).  Wigmar often leaves the market for months at a time, journeying to nearby towns to gather up coin from those less jaded to his skills.  Wigmar secretly holds a grudge against a powerful nobleman in the city, blaming them for the death of his family.#7: Theberga Chandler, The Gutter Mage’s Apprentice: Human Wiz1Theberga Chandler is a twelve year old human female who has just mastered her first true spells.  Bright and comely, she nonetheless spends most of her time huddled under a dirty patched blue traveller’s cloak that is too big for her, avoiding eye contact, and guarding her master’s hat.  She occasionally assists in the performances and acts as a crier to announce Wigmar’s presence and attract attention but is otherwise quite shy.  Like Wigmar, she has a stage presence she can hide in.  Theberga is a runaway from a distant city who four years ago fell under Wigmar’s protection.  Her father is a successful Chandler but is a violent drunk and abusive of herself and her mother.  The father believes Theberga has been kidnapped, having caught sight of his daughter on one occasion when Wigmar unwarily passed through and would press charges against Wigmar if he could track him down.</blockquote>

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