99. Orange Wooden House: This building isn't officially any sort of business, however it does have a steady stream of clients. The building itself is a simple wooden house that has been painted a bright orange colour with a matching orange open cart by the side of the house. Heiramn Gattelby, his wife Eirna and their three children live here. Heiramn and his eldest son Alec collect discarded or unwanted furniture from all over the city. Sometimes it is broken, sometimes it is old and worn, sometimes it is simply no longer "in style" or "fresh" and the owners "simply can't stand to look at it anymore". Regardless of the reasons, if it is at all salvageable, then Heiramn will collect it. The back half of his house has been converted into a workshop and warehouse for the storage and repair of the furniture he collects. He refers to himself as a "Furniture Recovery Artist" and claims to be able to restore any piece of furniture to a condition that is better than when it was discarded... He fills the front of his house with the repaired furniture which he then sells. Since he doesn't pay anything for the original furniture, all he charges for are the replacement parts and his labour, thus his prices are quite low for what is essentially well restored moderate to expensive quality furniture. Many people who want to own nice and expensive looking furniture, but can't afford to commission a furniture maker to make them a set of furniture come to Heiramn's to see what he has available. Furniture that can't be restored is disassembled into its basic parts, sorted into different bins in his warehouse and saved to be used as parts to repair other pieces of a matching style. One never knows what kind or style of furniture you'll find at Heiramn's, but he never sells something that isn't sturdy and fully restored. Heiramn is doing this to first and foremost to feed his family, but he also loves the simple pleasure of finding something that someone else considers worthless and turning it into something that someone else considers valuable.
100. The Graven Wife: While not the offical name of this terra cotta mansion, it is how many of the locals refer to it. It is the home of Grenneile Valastum, a middle-aged Dwarven businessman who has made his fortune during the past 200 years by owning several large marble quarries and thusly being the primary local supplier of fine marble used in public buildings and wealthy nobles' mansions. The only marble present at Grenneile's home though is a statue in the center of his courtyard. It is a life-size statue of his departed wife of 75 years. The lonely widower has made public for the past 60 years that any woman who can match the endearing qualities of his late wife will become his next bride and heir to his vast fortune as he has no children or close relations to bequeath his business and wealth to. Many women of all races, walks of life and motivations have tried to replace his wife, yet none have succeeded. It is rumoured that Grenneile has placed his wife upon a pedestal, making his refashioned memory of her so unattainably perfect that no living woman can best the ghost of his recollections of the perfected version of what his dead wife was like, In reality, there is no such thing going on at all. Grenneile is a very pragmatic man and has long since finished mourning his late wife. While he'll always love her, he hasn't idealized her memory in any way. The true reason that no woman has been the equal of his wife is due to a fact that not even Grenneile knew of when she was alive - his wife had been half Dwarf, half Celestial. Since none of the applicants have had a celestial heritage, he hasn't sensed that same feeling from them that he used to get from his wife.
And since every collection of 100 needs a 101...
101. Jostal's Home For Wayward Pets: This rickety, old two story house is slightly leaning towards its neighbour on the right side and none of the window shutters line up properly on the windows anymore due to the slanting tilt of the house. The interior of the building is filled to overflowing with all manner of household pets, predominently cats, dogs, and caged birds, however the occasional rarer pet can be found living here too. The sole humanoid resident is Jostal Blumber, a male Gnome who failed the entry requirements to become a druid, but had an everlasting love of animals. By day, he works as an assistant in a local stable. In the evenings, he takes care of his many "lost children" as he calls them. People from far and wide bring him lost animals that they find. He takes them in, nurses them back to full health if necessary, and then finds them good homes. He seems to have an uncanny knack for assessing what sort of animal a person would most like to have as a pet, oftentimes before they even know that they want a pet in the first place. Very rarely do his matches not hold true to his inital assessment. His reputation for this unique form of "matchmaking" is such that recently young wizards have begun coming to him for their animal familars, trusting in his ability to provide them with a better match than they would manage by simply relying on the random elements of the "Find Familar" spell alone. Again, Jostal's instincts have stood him in good stead, and his matches in these specialized instances are also proving to be well made. Animals that he can't find a home for become permanent and welcome residents of his home. He has such a gentle and loving way with animals that he has yet to have a single animal run away from him.
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