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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7539988" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I don’t have any canon sources, but my general knowledge of Waterdeep suggests a few options. 1) Any prominent Bard’s College. Your magic items would need to have artistic or historical value, here. An item with such value might sell at a higher price than if you auction it somewhere else. 2) The Yawning Portal Tavern. Gotta spend money to make money, and a decent number of the people here are here to make their fortune, or die trying. This would be an informal auction. Note that elements of the powerful groups and servants of powerful people gather here, as well, as do adventurers from across Faerun. Exactly the sort of morally ambiguous market you’re looking for. 3) A masked auction set up by a wealthy patron, perhaps one of the villains or major NPCs from Dragon Heist. The auction goers would be from all the various factions of 5e adventures, and the villainous and virtuous factions from Dragon Heist. Maybe the most vLuable, and/or most dangerous, item on the list is stolen and the theft discovered only in the moment the auction begins!4) Skullport. A dangerous hive of scum and villainy. This is where Duergar and Drow and Illithid Thralls come to find the goods they can’t find elsewhere, and also where Harpers and others come to thwart their acquisitions with or without bloodshed.</blockquote>