Veer Shevade

Merchant of the Bani Dawr

Purveyors of the taverns and listeners of rumors may be wondering what goods the Bani Dawr have been selling. Well, joined by members of their house (both for guard and for general assistance) a merchant has recently set up a brightly colored stall in the market. Most obvious of his wares are the brightly colored cloths draped about his stall.

Though not quite as voluminous a stock as this particular shop, these are the sorts of colors and piles one might see in Veer’s own stall.

Veer Shevade, a darker skinned fellow, obviously aged and weathered from travels, is seen during most days staffing his little popup stall. A cheerful fellow, with a thick accent who will happily barter and bargain (sometimes reaching a point where he speaks too quickly for the native Cothon-Gadeed language, and accidentally reverts to his home tongue) with customers for hours, Veer obviously has many things from his homelands for sale. Like other wandering traders before him, in between the “standard” cloths, lanterns, beads, masks and things for sale at this strange new stall, Veer has a handful of more unique items. These are only shown to repeat customers, or customers who are willing to show enough coin to make his haggling senses tingle. Nevertheless, the below special items are for sale from Veer. However, no prices are being listed, as all of these times are under a “make an offer” sort of bargaining.

• A List of Bargainable Goods:           [I can't get these bullets to format]

• 5 small pearls 

• 8 furry ghamel pelts of excellent quality
• 12 bolts of remarkably soft and lightweight cloth. Veer claims this cloth provides protection like that of good leather armor

• 60 “ration” days of sweet fruits and nuts (fresh, not preserved)

• 4 especially remarkable tapestries (above and beyond those for general sale), the artwork depicting strange scenes of whole villages riding on the backs of giant, long-necked, creatures.

• 18 pounds of dye-powder of various exotic colors. Veer will quickly explain that he means no intrusion upon the Barcidae, and their dyers and so any dye-powder is only for trade, not for sale.

• A single, rather odd looking bone. The shape is that of a small finger bone of some kind. There is no scrimshaw, or other markings upon it. What makes it odd is that as one observes the bone it will, occasionally, blur and seem semi-translucent for a moment, short enough that if it didn’t repeat itself a few moments later one might assume it was a trick of the light. Veer claims this to be a bone of the mystical qosoth, a rare item indeed! A small metal chunk that looks to have been crudely shaped into a small bowl, is included with this item, and is what holds the item, Veer explaining that if it were to phase while held normally it might just fall into the depths of the earth.

  

  The Bhave head, in color

• A remarkable little carving with exquisite detail, seemingly carved from a single fist-sized pearl. The figurine is of a four legged seemingly fuzzy or feathered animal, similar to the one depicted on the tapestries. The body is in equal length thirds, neck, torso, and tail, the head rounded with a bulgy nose. Several round spines protrude from the back of the head and down the top inch or so of the neck. Veer claims this to be a magical talisman of the Bhave, a mythical creature that carried humanity on its back to the river delta where she used her feet to trample the paddy-fields, and exhaled the sweet air of the valley from her nasal gourd, and the colorful feathers from her back as the seeds for the fruits and nuts to grow
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  A small, palm sized orb with what appears to be metal lacing just beneath a crystalline surface. It does not appear to be one of the "eyes" that certain barbarians have become acquainted with over the past couple years
  

For those interested in the more mundane side of the stall, here are the more “generally” available items, and their prices. Unlike the above items, which are all “as supplies last” these items are, for the foreseeable future, being made more generally available for purchase similar to other specialty goods. Note that these prices are subject to the normal “ebb and flow” of prices. Which is to say, during winter everything is 2x as expensive.

Price	Item
5 dn (gp)	Bolt of brightly colored, lightweight fabric (not as durable as the specialty bolts)
3 dn / pint	A fermented cider, made from exotic fruits
1 dn	Paper lanterns of varying shapes, sizes and colors
30 dn	Masks, often of a predatory (or otherwise beaked) animal, but warped and elongated to the point of the inspiring creature being nearly unrecognizable. The masks are made of a foreign wood that affords the masks a slightly higher tensile strength than most dried and carved wood, allowing them to bend somewhat around the face of the wearer.
500+ dn	Woven tapestries, usually of scenes or creatures (higher price for finer art). He will also accept commissions, explaining that the producer of these fine tapestries traveled with him, and that she would happily produce new such items. Though note that this comes with additional time for the art to be created.

Veer Shevade (or his stall in the Souk, at least) will remain in Cothon-Gadeed for some time yet. Unlike other merchants highlighted in this space, he is not so much "passing through" as setting up a semi-permanent booth to sell the goods of his homeland as they come to him, he being the face of the operation. Though business may call him away at times, the stall will nevertheless remain, looked after especially by servitors of the Bani Dawr.

[written up by Jacob--thanks for an excellent addition to the milieu!]