Editing The Echo Bazaar

{{Neath_Location|title1 = The Echo Bazaar|image1 = sidestreets.png|caption1 = The Bazaar Side Streets. Art from FL.|location = [[London]]|allegiance = [[The Masters]] (publicly)|notable_inhabitants = [[The Masters]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/crowds-of-spite Crowds of Spite]}}''"The Bazaar is traditionally spoken of as if it's a single living thing. Women call it 'he'; men call it 'she'. The Masters of the Bazaar style themselves 'Mr', but no-one seems to think they're actually men."''

''"The Bazaar is located at the heart of Fallen London, in the Neath, a cavern of impossible size, by the Unterzee, a tremendous saltwater lake. They say it's the skull of some defunct pagan god. That doesn't sound very likely. Although it would explain the dreams."''

[[File:Bazaar.png|thumb|Premises at the Bazaar, a very expensive place to live.]]'''The Echo Bazaar''' is the center of commerce in [[Fallen London]].

==We Look Forward to Meeting Your Money==

 

People from all walks of life are free to buy and sell their wares here (including people straight out of [[New Newgate]]). Those of some importance are welcome to walk the [[The Echo Bazaar#The Sidestreets|side-streets]] and purchase higher-end goods found there. The Bazaar traffics in many things, from more common items like clothing or pets to the more intangible such as secrets and souls. Stories of love seem to be of particular interest.

 

[[File:Bazaar2.png|thumb|left|A Spire-Emporium at the Bazaar.]]It is even possible to visit the Masters inside the Bazaar. One may enter through their choice of seven doors, each of which is made of a different material: '''Ormolu''', '''Teeth''', '''Copper''', '''Glass''', '''Ivory''', '''Paper''', and '''Steel'''.

 

The Bazaar deals in commerce on a far greater scale than these goods, however. Its vaults are far too extensive and secretive to be merely mundane. People of exceptional skill and fame may bargain for esoteric knowledge to push their training even further.

===The Sidestreets===

''"What can you find in the Bazaar Sidestreets? Respectable firms crammed into ramshackle workshops and poky offices. The rent here is astronomical. But the quick and the hungry turn profits in the shadows of the spires. Just keep your eyes off the carvings up high. And whatever you do, don't fall in love."''

'''The Bazaar Sidestreets''' are only accessible to those of some importance, but they have quite lucrative business opportunities for these well-known figures.

==Notable Businesses and Locations==

===Main Shops===

*'''Maywell's Hattery''':'' "Your crowning glory."''

*'''Crawcase Cryptics''':'' "Secrets, Papers, Truths, Mistruths, Rumours, Lies, Prayers. Books."''

*'''Penstock's Land Agency''':'' "Exceptional Dwellings for Exceptional People!"''

*'''Harbour Provisioners''':'' ''[[The Iron Republic]] only, long story.

* '''Empire Adornments''', a jewelry dealer

* '''Blackfinger Street''', where all the publishers and writers do business

* '''The Horse-Steak Club''', a tavern of some note

* '''Baseborn and Fowlingpiece''', the Neath's best provider of legal documents and permits

* '''The Great Downward Engineering Company''', hawking interesting contraptions and cheap labor

* '''The Bridge Without''', another tavern of some note

* '''B&F''', the law office of the '''Intense Notary'''

==The Bazaar==

{{Character|title1 = The Bazaar|image1 = EHyAmmv.png|caption1 = The Bazaar and [[Judgements|the Sun]]. A match made in [[The High Wilderness|heaven]]. Art from FL.|location = The Neath. [[The Fallen Cities|Five cities so far.]]|allegiance = [[Judgements|The Sun]]|alias = The Messenger|relationships = [[Judgements|The Sun]] (love interest)}}

''"In the deepest matters of the Bazaar, always look to love. Always."''

Like [[the House of Rods and Chains]], the Bazaar is a messenger of the stars. Its true form is that of a giant space-crab, covered in seven spires inscribed with the maddening [[Correspondence]]. It gets around using thrusters called '''Stone Pigs''', which were duplicated to form the Fulgent Impeller. It's very much alive, and rather upset with its situation. Nowadays, it just chills in [[London]] while getting high on the sphinxstones from the [[the Salt Lions]], a drug that induces nostalgia for better days.

===The Bazaar's Backstory===

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy not far enough away, the Bazaar and [[the Sun]] got together and had some really weird rock offspring (including [[the Mountain of Light|Stone]]). The Sun then fell in love with a different [[Judgements|star]], and to add insult to injury, sent the Bazaar (who's the Judgments' messenger by the way) to give the other star a love letter. This other star, unfortunately, rejected the Sun in her reply. The Bazaar begged for extra time to deliver the rejection notice. So it has seven cities' time - ordered by the space dragons (like [[Storm]]), who will execute both the Bazaar and the Sun if the letter isn't delivered in time - to find seven cities' worth of love stories to boil down into the Ultimate Love and prevent the Sun from drowning in its own tears. (And also, perhaps, to get some more space fook, though this is most likely not possible.)

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''In case any of this is confusing, here's the high school version written by fellow lore nerd Manfred on the Delicious (Discord) Server.''

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We ''used'' to think that the Bazaar was collecting love stories to prove to the Judgements that love between links of the Great Chain (the Sun is above her on this Chain) is permissible, but upon careful inspection of [[The Seventh Letter|a certain forbidden play]], this is a misconception.

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