Mori - The Merchant’s Ring

The Merchant’s Ring is the bustling economic heart of Mori, a sprawling district dominated by commerce, trade, and the ceaseless exchange of goods and services. Positioned strategically around the city’s major ports, markets, and caravan hubs, the Merchant’s Ring serves as the engine of the Empire’s economy, where fortunes are made, alliances are forged, and the pulse of trade never falters.

This district is a chaotic blend of opulence and grime, where golden guildhouses stand side by side with crowded bazaars, coffee houses and towering warehouses. Merchants and guildmasters wield immense influence here, their wealth often rivaling that of noble clans in the Spire Heights.

Important Buildings and Locations

1. The Ring Market - a ring of shops, stalls and trade houses where one can buy and sell anything you can imagine. From simple produce or rare artefacts, everything is sold in the spiralling market. You can also find the new coffee houses that serve a bitter invigorating drink made from roasted dark beans from the New Frontier. Many deals and trades are closed in these houses while enjoying a cup of coffee.
2. The Grand Exchange - a newer building specialising in deals in the future trades and loaning money to business ventures. Here not goods but the potential of profit is being traded in a new and novel way to do business. Even a form of gambling is taken place where traders bet on which business is going to make profits and which is going to lose.
3. The Broker's Plaza - a central plaza where deals are struck under the watchful eyes of statues representing trade, prosperity, and ambition. Independent traders and guildless merchants gather here, offering their goods and services without the oversight of the larger guilds.
4. The Smuggler's Alley - though officially denied by imperial authorities, it is an open secret that certain shadowy alleys and hidden docks cater to smugglers, fences, and black-market dealers. Rare magical artifacts, outlawed alchemical substances, and forbidden tomes often pass through these clandestine channels.