V. THE MYSTIC QUARTER

The air feels different here. Quieter than it should be. Merchants speak with deliberate calm.

📜 The Folded Veil

Scrolls, Spell Components & Arcane Supplies Proprietor: Arindrel, an elven wizard who has been in Ka'limport "for a little while" — roughly four decades

Scrolls, components, ritual supplies. Arindrel vets her customers quietly and refuses to sell certain things to certain people without explaining why.

Standard Stock:

Spell scrolls (cantrip–3rd level) — standard prices
Common spell components — standard prices
Arcane focus crystals — 10–50 gp
Blank spellbooks — 50 gp
Ritual supplies — varies

Unique Items:

Scroll of the Watcher's Eye — A single-use scroll. When read, the caster designates a door, chest, or container. If anything opens that container within the next 24 hours, the caster knows immediately, regardless of distance. — 75 gp
The Hunger Ink — A vial of black ink that, when used to write a spell into a spellbook, permanently reduces that spell's material component cost by 50%. The ink is consumed in the writing. One vial writes one spell. — 120 gp
Anchor Stone — A small flat stone carved with a stabilizing rune. While held, concentration spells cannot be broken by damage below 20 in a single hit. Disappears after absorbing 3 such checks. — 200 gp

🔮 The Still Eye

Divination & Fortune-Telling Services Proprietor: Maran Desh, a middle-aged human seer who is so accurate it's unsettling, even to her

Maran doesn't sell items. She sells information — and she charges more the less she's allowed to say.

Services:

Sand Reading (general fortune, vague impressions) — 5 gp
Star Chart Reading (near future, specific question) — 25 gp
The Deep Seeing (1 hour session, answers one specific question with disturbing precision) — 100 gp
"The Asking" — She tells you one thing she sees about you, unprompted. She decides what. She offers this once to each person, and does not charge for it. They don't always want to hear it.

🧿 The Glass Menagerie

Magical Curiosities & Minor Wondrous Items Proprietor: Tobren Glast, a gnome with seventeen rings on his fingers and a talking raven on his shoulder named "Also Tobren"

Not a weapons shop. Not a spell shop. A shop for interesting things. Tobren collects. He sells when something interests him less than the money for it. His stock rotates constantly.

Current Wares (selection varies):

The Empathy Glass — A palm-sized mirror. When held facing another creature, it reflects not their appearance but their emotional state as colour and shape — red fractures for anger, slow blue waves for calm. The creature being observed is unaware. — 150 gp
Sable Candle — A black candle that burns without producing light but generates warmth. Creates a 10ft radius of supernatural stillness — creatures within have advantage on Wisdom saving throws. Burns for 4 hours. — 60 gp
The Twice-Crossed Coin — An ancient copper coin that has been magically cursed and then magically un-cursed. Both states remain somehow present. When flipped, it always lands on heads. When placed on a surface, it slowly rolls toward the nearest source of magic. — 30 gp
~~Hollow Hours Hourglass~~ — A small hourglass filled with black sand. Runs for exactly one hour — but time within 10ft of it feels subjectively longer. A short rest taken within its field feels genuinely restorative in ways that are difficult to explain afterward. — 200 gp
The Borrowed Voice — A small brass cylinder with a speaking-trumpet end. Whisper a message into it and seal the cap; anyone who unscrews it later will hear your voice speak the message once, as if you were present. The message is fixed at the time of speaking. — 45 gp
~~Moth-Wing Compass~~ — A compass whose needle is a preserved moth wing. Points toward the nearest creature that has died within the last 24 hours. In a city this size, it is almost always pointing somewhere. — 80 gp