Green's Emporium

Stock & Services

Green’s Emporium keeps a carefully curated assortment of arcane antiques, practical wards, and “perfectly harmless curiosities”—the sort of shop where a cracked porcelain teacup might be mundane, enchanted, or both depending on who’s asking. Much of the front stock is respectable enough to satisfy passers-by, while the more interesting items live in locked cabinets, drawer-safes, and a back room that never quite looks the same twice.

Typical Stock includes:

• Arcane antiquities & curios: devotional talismans, sealed lockets, mourning jewellery with residual charge, pocket charms, spirit-lantern fittings, and oddments from estate clearances.
• Books & papers: cheap pamphlets on folk protections, reputable occult reference works, and bundles of marginalia in maddening “kitchen Latin”.
• Divination implements: scrying bowls, cards, tea-leaf sets, pendulums, and (if Sophia is in a generous mood) a few items that choose their owner rather than the other way round.

Services offered:

• Appraisal & authentication (Sophia’s speciality): identification of enchantments, provenance checks, and discreet valuation for inheritance disputes.
• Discreet commissions & brokerage: locating hard-to-find items through Witch's Hollow network—always with careful wording and no unnecessary names.

Clientele

Green’s Emporium attracts a steady trickle of the curious and the hesitant—people who have heard a rumour, taken a wrong turn, or worked up the nerve to step into Witch's Hollow “just to have a look”. Most are casual visitors: dabblers, sensation-seekers, and anxious souls hoping for a harmless charm, a quick reassurance, or a story to take back to brighter streets.

The truly serious customers are fewer, and rarely arrive by accident. They tend to come with purpose: local shopkeepers from the Crescent, discreet members of London’s magical undercurrent, and the occasional professional with careful shoes and an even more careful tone. Some want warding supplies, some want appraisals, and some want answers they can’t safely ask anywhere else.

Sophia Green can usually tell which sort has walked in before the door has fully shut—and Anthony Green, bless him, is often the friendly face that makes the merely curious feel welcome… and the genuinely dangerous realise they’re being watched.

Reputation

Green’s Emporium has an unspoken reputation: if you need something safe, Sophia can supply it; if you need something dangerous, she can tell you exactly why you don’t—and then sell you the safer alternative with a look in her blind eyes that could curdle milk.