The Halls of Exchange, Routes and Sharedwealth

Notable Locations

The Coinwind Quays

River Okyanus fingerlings lap at floating piers where caravels, sky-balloon barges, and mule-trains all berth together. Pennants list honest rates; rope-ferries cross not only water but need, pulling you to the berth that best fits your cargo.  

Aisle of a Hundred Tongues

A long, shaded bazaar whose lintels whisper translation; chalk-boards sprout beside booths for quick figures and picture-deals, and misunderstandings taste faintly of mint until corrected.  

The Ledger-Green

A terraced common planted with oath-trees; carve a vow to deliver, teach, or repay, and when you keep it the bark flowers a pearl-knot charm. Break it and the knot turns grey and heavy until you make amends.  

Arbiters’ Steps

Broad amphitheater stairs where chorus-moots settle disputes in sung case and countercase before any tests of contract or craft; verdicts become lanterns along the night market.  

Wayfoundry

A mapmakers’ cloister where routes are minted: scribes, teamsters, and wardens knot new roads into the world with song, chalk, and stamped way-scrip. By dawn, those paths quietly exist, safer for a season.  

The Scrip Gardens

Pergolas hung with trust-scrip: woven bands you can pledge instead of coin when purse runs thin. Keep your promise and the band turns gold-threaded; default and it sheds to lint until you repay.  

The Banner Mile

Caravan-camps in a ribbon of color, each banner a compact of fair dealing with a neighboring faith or realm (Safwah’s Pridelands, House of Nature, Sol Aureum, Stormhold’s couriers). Treaties are roasted, sung, then signed.  

The Exchange Basilica

Half market, half court. Every arch bears a parable cut from travel and trust; judgments are binding because the basilica remembers who kept whose word.  

The Wheel of Ways

A slow-turning colonnade of gate-arches; each rotation aligns to routes most needed that week. Wardens listen to the wheel sing before setting tariffs (often: none).  

The Open Hand Treasury

A vault that refuses hoarded suffering. Pledges made here become loaner blades, boats, blankets, and beasts that always find their way to where they’re needed most.  

Thaler’s Walk

Cobbles stamped with sayings, every tenth stone a reminder that a fair deal is two doors kept open.  

Travel and Access

Oceanus Lanes

Calm reaches serve as planar canals toward Elysium, The Beastlands, and Arborea; ferrymen honor guest-right and the bell of fair tide.  

Overthreads to Shurrock and the Midrun

Balloon barges and glide-bridges rise to the zero gravity band; Bridge of Good Neighboring-rites lace to Shurrock’s trestles when communities on both sides pledge upkeep.  

Market-Ward Gates

Five-bar motifs over doorframes open to sister stalls on Dothion and friendly courts if you can hum the pattern cleanly.  

The House Ledger

Whisper a cited change you lived through, and a side-aisle opens into the Library of All Knowledge to fetch precedent or send notice.  

Inhabitants

Petitioners of the Coinroad

Traders, ferriers, translators, teamsters, mediators, quartermasters, and itinerant priests of luck, reborn with steady breath and nimble hands. They cannot abide cornering need; those who try lose their way-sense until they feed the hungry they priced out.  

Celestials on the Move

Hound archons act as roadwardens; trumpet archons serve as fair-weight adjudicators; cervidal and leonal Agathions patrol guest-right; bralani arbiters run courier circuits; lillends preserve song-law and market chants. Unlike the whole of Bytopia, there alot of Azatas here, along with the other celestials.  

Good-hearted Fey of stall and road

Chalk-lantern sprites, counter-dryads, and toll-bridge nixies who guide without gouging and delight in clear contracts freely made.  

Avandra’s Retinue

Coin-wardens with ringed green sashes, Witchings (luck-knot casters) who bless risks taken for others, and Open-Hand Factors who lend blades, boats, or beasts when that makes the road fairer.

Kindly Audit

Tiny ledger-wisps tally deeds. A day’s honest work for others wraps a warm luck about you; a day spent pricing cruelty draws soft obstacles, missed connections, damp ledgers, and awkward silence, until you set something right.  

Price of Hoarding

Corner food or medicine and watch your stall slide to the edge of town, where only wind visits. Share freely again, and the streets fold you back in.  

Footnote Squalls

Breezes of loose marginalia flurry the plazas; bold claims attract sticky citations that cling until you prove or withdraw them.  

Run on Fortune

Confidence surges become festival; delight-magic rings truer and fearful swagger falls flat. Try to end it by force and the Guest-Right bell tolls sanctions.  

Counterfeit Favor

False pearl-knots crumble to lint, and deals tied to them drift; the gardens dim until the harmed party is made whole.  

Road’s Grace

Find the path, status, water walk, and purpose-keyed teleports/way-walks arrive with uncommon precision when you travel to help or to deliver fairly.  

Honest Measure

Magic that reveals, reconciles, heals, translates, or restores tends to last a little longer or reach a little farther when cast in the open with all parties present.  

Performative Casting

Casting while haggling clearly, annotating ledgers, mapping, or storytelling steadies the mind; bystanders read benign effects as part of the rite.  

Guest-Right Boon

Messages, protections, tongues, sendings, and courage-chants tied to an oath at a public well hold firm through the next bell.  

Silence for Tyrants

Soul-harm, slavery bindings, fear-dominations, and fraud veils strain or quietly fail. Atonement and restorations invoked to repair harm take gentle hold.