The Mercantile Quarter (East Quarter)

[Sire Halfblack]

The Mercantile Quarter, is the eastern quarter of the city. Unsurprisingly, as its name implies, it is home to some of the wealthier citizens of the city, those with the skill, wit and fortune to belong to one of the recognised City Guilds and those who, whilst not directly belonging to a guild, perform those day to day duties needed by the guildsmen that fall "beneath" them. If rumour is to believed large chunks of the quarter have fallen under the financial demesne and sway of the Merchant Sire Anath Halfblack and a journey through this quarter reveals a substantial number of businesses that would appear to be owned by the city's devious Vizier.

In Martius IM 1008 The entirety of the Hundred’s guilds relocated from their traditional birth place of Cheapside into the now booming Mercantile Quarter making it the most populous part of the city, some would say taking on the old mantle of the “city’s birth cradle” that had for centuries been the prerogative of Cheapside.

The move was not without some issue. The guilds did not just move they used the ritual power of The Hundred to literally transport entire structures from Cheapside into the Mercantile Quarter. Such an unnatural event resulted, unsurprisingly in a dangerous burden of entropy for the city. It seems likely though that come the next Final Dawn the peons will forget that the guilds ever existed in Cheapside and will simply remember the quarter as having always been the home of the city's guilds.

[Sire Halfblack]

In Juon IM 1009 Master Halfblack had vast swathes of the quarter re-designed and re-built to encompass the extensive collection of stalls and shops that would form the great market that was to become known as “Anath’s Back Passage”.

Spread across the entirety of the Mercantile Quarter the market could only be constructed by having houses, shops and even in some cases bridges knocked down.

Master Halfblack knows trade and knows what Traders want and through such foresight and understanding was able to tempt less mobile Traders to set up pitches in the Mercantile Quarter.

[Sire Halfblack]

In Jurrle IM 1009, following the construction of the market the month before, the Traders, that once formed the King's Bazaar in Alguz moved from there to Deci, made comfortable by the temptation of profit dangled before them by Master Halfblack.

[Sire Halfblack]

In Noveas IM 1009 the last of the great Trader influence migrated from fallen Alguz into the ever welcoming arms of Master Halfblack's Invisible Quarter, there to settle and enjoy his protection and temptations. The Lord's Wagoneer set up shop and the presence of the mysterious multifacetted Trader Prince was felt in the Invisible Quarter. With the Lord Wagoneer directing the city's caravans truly vast quanties of goods could now be moved about and across the Empire from Deci and with the everchanging Trader Prince ensconced in the city the Empire's Traders gathered from far and wide to service the city's trade needs whilst it offered them the best of facilities.