Grand Bazaar: Crown Jewel of Throal
The Grand Bazaar: Throal's Crown Jewel is a 256-page sourcebook exploring the largest marketplace in Barsaive. Each chapter explores one of the bazaar's districts in detail, including prominent vendors, sights to see, the particular culture, rumors, and adventure hooks.
Stroll through the lanes of Gallery Row and admire the works on display from the artists and galleries found within. While that may not hold the interest of every adventuring adept, certainly all can enjoy the scents and flavors found in the Culinary District. Particularly after a time living on dwarf mine rations while on the road.
From there, the drawing power of Forge Square cannot be denied with sundry Weaponsmiths of various ability selling their wares. Most important, finding one with time to spend enhancing your armor and weapons.
With this busy day already, catching a show in Little Agora may be a great way to relax. Adepts who enough fame may find themselves signing the autographs and fending off merchants wanting their endorsement. Or even deciding to cash in on that hard won fame and maybe Fop is the best hair and beard oil in the province, it's not like you use it (being a Handsome Danne man, after all).
This material is easy to drop into any existing game to make an otherwise banal shopping trip considerably more exciting. Maybe the characters will find their fame a double-edged sword as they're relentlessly pursed by vendors seeing their endorsement of products they've never heard of. But that silver still spends.
New items to spend that hard-earned coin on abound in the game information chapter, including blood charms, consumables, and common magic items.
Rumors about and peeks into the politics behind the scenes, influences, and plots are also hidden among the pages. Even hints about who the generous investor might be and their motivations.
