Most pactmaking today uses standardised currencies and boons traded on the open market. But of course these currencies must be backed by real exchanges, and the Goblin Market is the busiest and most diverse market for these exchanges in the North – at least for those who know not how to find the Unseelie.
Stalls – most but not all of them run by goblins – pop up somewhere in the North every new moon. Where the market is changes with the months, but the market comes to a series of glades in the Kingswood (33.04) at least once a year. And it is here that those who truck with spirits exchange intangibles, impossibilities and organs (their own or those of others) for bone shards, orichalcum coins, dinosaur feathers, pixie dust and other ritual currencies.
One merchant is a goblin child who appeared one day and lay his bundle on the ground. He claims that the shrunken white head of Tiamat is in the sack, within another bag. He will allow any person to look inside the sack – so far all have reeled away and said they no longer doubt that it is Tiamat’s head that the child has.
The most powerful merchant is a willowy mercane named Geddar. Her gaudy tents fill fully a third of the entire market. She has promised she will give over all of her wealth if someone can bring her a tail feather (25.07) from the mockingbird.
Connections
- Toadvine’s (30.09) jewellry is often found for sale here.
Hooks:
- Where does one get orichalcum coins, dinosaur feathers and pixie dust, other than here?
- What intangibles, impossibilities and organs could the heroes bring to the markets?
- Why do goblins run this? Where are their trees?
- This market is the largest in the North. Which is the largest in the South?