View source for Imperial City Shops & Eateries



===Blossoming Orchid Pavilion===

''Patents:'' [[Scarlet Empress|Imperial]].

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''Description:'' A large teahouse in the [[Imperial Palace]], left open to the breeze in the mornings and closed against heat in the afternoon. Many Dynasts come to the [[Blossoming Orchid Pavilion]] in its public hall or private alcoves to enjoy refreshments such as flower [[Tea]]s and [[Dynastic Dim Sum|dim sum]]. However, as with the rest of the palace, the walls are said to have ears, and a closed door draws more attention than one left open.

===Morning Lily Tea House===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]]

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''Description:'' The [[Morning Lily Tea House]] is quite large, generally well lit except for the back tables, and lavishly decorated... just what one would expect from an establishment catering to members of the [[Scarlet Dynasty]]. Its selection of [[Tea]]s is high class, and its staff well trained in the formalities of the [[Tea Ceremony]] which was central to Terrestrial dining in the long-past [[Shogunate Era|days of the Shogunate]]. The tables are open, with plenty of space between them, for this is not a house of clandestine meetings but of stepping out for the sake of being seen. 


===Folded Lotus Inn===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' Located within  the [[Onyx Curtain District]]. Over the past decade, the [[Folded Lotus Inn]] has become one of the premier places within the City for socializing amongst the lower levels of the Dynasty. Growing and slowly expanding over the years, the Inn currently includes four buildings around a fairly large private garden. The first building is the Inn proper, which is where most of the guests stay, the only way into the complex (which is walled for privacy), and also includes the common room where food, [[Wine]], and [[Tea]] are taken, and entertainment performed, as well as the private tea rooms. The common room and each private tea room (there are two) have exits to the gardens, and the rooms of those staying at the inn share another exit to the garden, as well. The second building is a bath house, which can be used by those staying at the inn, for a small additional fee on their tab, or by those not staying, for a slightly higher fee. The third building, which is nearby, is the house where the inn’s owners (a patrician merchant named Gusei and his son, Taysuke) live, as well as those people currently working at the Inn. The garden contains a small stream, which has a series of small waterfalls in it. The fourth building is a large, empty hall of simple furnishings and wooden floors: sometimes it is rented out for parties, and sometimes it is used for Dynastic duels between hotheaded young scions of the Great Houses.

Much about Gusei’s method of running his inn is often considered odd. The arrangement of furniture in the common room changes at least once a week, and the people who are serving at the inn change even more often, and often without any reason, it seems. Mirrors hang all about the inn, in seemingly random arrangements that change as often as the furniture of the common room, some of the mirrors even being set on the floor and ceiling. While the food is slightly more expensive than the average establishment of this class, it is widely agreed that it is a fine place to eat, and there are few places with better service in the city. Many Dynasts will use the Inn as a place to hold what parties and festivities they throw, and be able to sleep safe in the knowledge that whatever they have arranged will go off without a hitch.


===Uzumaki's Kitchen===

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''Description:'' A small dining place in the Western Districts, specializing in fried rice with eggs or vegetables. The citizen Uzumaki family has held the establishment for many  years, despite frequent fires that claim the wooden structure. The food at [[Uzumaki's Kitchen]] is cheap peasant fare, but the atmosphere radiates a low-class charm.

===Southern Pepper Restaurant===

''Patents:'' Clan Sazuro ([[Patrician Clans|patrician clan]]).

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''Description:'' On the Street of the Fatman, just off the Eastern Market, can be found the [[Southern Pepper Restaurant]], one of several businesses owned by the prominent patrician merchant [[Sazuro Nisemono|Sazuro "the Fatman" Nisemono]]. The food served here is in Southern style, not bad if a bit spicy, and not very expensive by patrician standards.

===Hinushisushi Sea Flavours===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]]

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''Description:'' [[Hinushisushi Sea Flavours]] is located in the Eastern Markets, catering to middle class and upper class citizens. The restaurant décor is finely themed of the five elemental dragons and throughout the restaurant these motifs are displayed. Fine tables and booths litter the main room, with a few small oven tables where the food is cooked in front of the customer. Specializing in dozens of different kinds of sushi the menu primarily consists of [[Dynastic Seasonal Seafood|seafood]]; although special dishes can be done. The staff treats each blooded with exceeding respect, serving them first and with the highest quality. 


===Teishou Suzume Eatery===

''Patents:'' None.

''Price:'' x

''Description:'' [[Teishou Suzume Eatery]] is a low class restaurant in the Western District, which sells fried fish and squid. The food is quite cheap, but overcooked... likely because rot has set in by the time fish reaches the poorer markets of the City.

===Unagihime Restaurant===

''Patents:'' [[House Peleps]], [[House Ledaal]].

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''Description:'' [[Unagihime Restaurant]] has a well-deserved reputation as one of the best seafood restaurants in the city. Its chefs are experts in [[Western School Cuisine|Western School cooking]] and [[Dynastic Seasonal Seafood]], and its ties to fishermen in [[Vatamu]] allow the freshest of fish to be rushed from sea to table before they suffer much deterioration. Many Dynasts from the coastal regions enjoy taking meals here, where they can enjoy the familiar tastes of the sea.


===Pavilion of Culinary Enticement===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]], [[House Cynis]], [[House Peleps]], [[House Ragara]].

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''Description:'' The [[Pavilion of Culinary Enticement]] is a luxurious dining establishment for the wealthy members of the [[Scarlet Dynasty]]. There are no chairs or couches in the Pavilion: guests sit upon embroidered carpets in private rooms, resting on piles of silk cushions. Dishes rest upon individual raised trays made of intricately-etched silver. Each group of guests is seated around its own host or hostess, who prepares and serves the meal as it is delivered from the kitchens. The host not only determines the order of courses and the seasonings sprinkled over the dishes, but also selects and mixes the [[Tea]]s or spirits that best accompany each dish and orchestrates the mood of the meal. These hosts are artists, trained to shift the contents of a meal both subtly and drastically based not only upon factors of season and ambience, but upon the topics of conversation amongst the guests, their attitudes and modes of dress. It is impossible to eat at the Pavilion without making a reservation at least a month in advance, and the price of a meal here is gargantuan.


===House of Healing Repast===

''Patents:'' [[House Sesus]], [[House V'neef]], [[House Ledaal]].

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''Description:'' Many [[:Category:Physicians|physicians]] and apothecaries have often repeated the adage 'treat food as medicine', and nowhere is this lesson taken more to heart than the [[House of Healing Repast]]. Jars of ingredients fill the shelves that cover the walls and sprigs of dried herbs hang from the rafters. Every ingredient and every dish carries meaning. [[Hazelnut]]s give energy, root vegetables are restorative and calming, and [[Parsley]] lifts the spirits. Each dish is tailored to the needs of the individual guest. The staff expect their guests let their needs be known, and at the start of a meal a cook and server with medical training greet each table to enquire about their health and offer knowledgeable advice and suggestions on what dishes they ought to try (Lacking direction from the guest, the staff will make their own determinations as best they can). A hearty soup served to the burly Legion officer might be accented with [[Fennel]] and [[Chestnut Mushroom]]s, while the same soup served to an elderly patrician might be seasoned with lamb, spring onion, and cilantro. Such personal attention comes, of course, with an appropriately astronomical price-tag.


===Seijo Inn===

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''Description:'' The oddly-shaped [[Seijo Inn]] is a mixture of architectural styles... the central building, now over a century old, was originally a teahouse, well designed and appointed. Over the years rooms for housing were added, forming a new wing of different style than the first. The food is decent, and the [[Tea]] is good.

During the time when the [[1st Imperial Legion]] was garrisoned in the Imperial City, the Seijo Inn was a popular residence and meeting spot for its officer corps, perhaps because of the 1st Legion scalelord's uniform preserved in an alcove by the entrance... the Inn having been opened originally by an ancestor of the Seijo family who worked his way up through the ranks to an officer's post.


===Golden Silk Teahouse===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' A large courtyard surrounded by private dining rooms, the [[Golden Silk Teahouse]] is known as a place for quiet meetings away from the ears of the Palace... the walls are thick and the windows readily shuttered against prying eyes. The food is of fine quality here as well, and the selection of [[Tea]]s is large indeed, with varieties from across the South and East. The master of the Teahouse is the unExalted Dynast [[Tepet Rensai|Tepet Berel Rensai]].


===Honey-Touched Teahouse===

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''Description:'' A small teahouse in the Eastern Districts, frequented by patricians and the wealthier citizens of the [[Imperial City]]. The [[Honey-Touched Teahouse]] is known amongst such clients for the [[Honey]] mixed into the [[Tea]] here, which is harvested from [[Honey Bee]]s in the Teahouse's small garden and mixed with beet sugar.


===Green Pond Inn===

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''Description:'' A multi-story building with a fenced-in garden, that features a large and well-maintained [[Koi]] pond as the center piece. The [[Green Pond Inn]]'s common room, where guests can take meals, [[Tea]], [[Wine]], and entertainment are on the ground floor, along with a few private tea rooms. All of these rooms have an exit into the gardens, kept open on most days to provide a pleasant view for the guests. The second floor contains several private tea rooms, and a few of the cheaper rooms guests can take for themselves. Despite the usual business in the common room, the private tea rooms and bedrooms for rent on the second floor are surprisingly quiet, the floor having been designed to muffle the sounds from downstairs going up. The upper floors contains larger rooms for more wealthy guests. These rooms are set around the outer walls of the building, each one having its own balcony that gives a magnificent view of the city by night or by day. The Green Pond, located in the Eastern Districts, has a mostly-patrician clientèle, though Dynasts of lesser wealth also make use of it. Its kitchens are particularly known for the quality of their noodle dishes (their [[Street Food of the Blessed Isle|Juche-style Laoman]], sauced and topped with pickled flowers & [[Dog Meat]], is known to many [[:Category:Chefs & Gourmands|gourmands]] in the City) . The master of the Inn is [[Nellens Jin]].


===White Mountain Inn===

''Price:'' x

''Description:'' A dilapidated, three-storey tenement, filled with the smell of mildew and the twittering sounds of cockroaches. The [[White Mountain Inn]] is the favoured dwelling of peasants coming to the City to hawk their wares, due to the low cost of rooming here. The Inn serves meals as well, in a smoky common room... a watery stew of rat meat and root vegetables is most common. 



===Starflower Tea House===

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''Description:'' The [[Starflower Tea House]] is a simple place, located in the Eastern Market, where patricians and merchants often come to take [[Tea]] and discuss matters of business.


===The Drunken Trierarch===

''Patents:'' [[Peleps Yasuki|Yasuki]] household ([[House Peleps]])

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''Description:'' The [[Drunken Trierarch]] is a bawdy tavern in the Western Districts, operated by [[Peleps Ichibei]]. Ichibei is a man of advanced years and a strange sense of humour: his wife and children dwell in the west of the [[Blessed Isle]], serving in the Water Fleet, but Ichibei chose to spend his retirement and his considerable mercantile fortune running a lower-class tavern in the City. 

Ichibei spend a considerable sum in purchasing gaudy cotton caricatures of high Dynastic fashions, with which he dresses his serving girls. He is a great embarrassment to many Dynasts, especially his own House, and his behaviour has also been frowned upon by many [[Immaculate]] monks, but such thing seem only to make the establishment more popular to his chosen clientèle. Most objectionable, Ichibei flies the mon of his own Yasuki household from the gables of the inn. 



===Ball and Chain Tavern===

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''Description:'' The [[Ball and Chain Tavern]] is a seedy drinking hole in the West District, located in the basement below a run-down tenement block. The ale is strong but the tavern stinks of sewage. This tavern is known as a welcoming refuge among released and still-bound slaves in the Imperial City, and known to only a few serves as a rallying point for the activities of the [[Society Recognizing the Inherent Immorality of Human Enslavement within the Perfected Hierarchy|Abolitionists]].


===Hidden Gem Teahouse===

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''Description:'' The [[Hidden Gem Teahouse|Hidden Gem]] is a [[Tea]]house and tavern in the Eastern Districts, near the [[Crystal Palace]], frequented by servants in the employ of [[House Mnemon]].



===Complete Collection of Virtues Eatery===

''Patents:'' [[House Sesus]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The [[Complete Collection of Virtues Eatery]] is a famous [[:Category:Ducks|duck]] and fowl restaurant in the Eastern Market, catering to Dynasts and wealthy patricians. Known for the excellent quality of its meat, cooked perfectly to remain moist and full-flavoured.



===Shop of Convenience and Pleasure===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]].

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''Description:'' A famous duck and fowl restaurant in the Western Market, catering to lower-end patricians and wealthy merchants. The [[Shop of Convenience and Pleasure]] is known for excellent dishes made from broth and rice, mixed with all manner of ingredients from prawns to cardamom pods to dried apricots, which serve as beds for their birds.



===Hall for Listening to the Orioles===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]].

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''Description:'' The [[Hall for Listening to the Orioles]] is a restaurant located amidst the manors of the Dynastic districts, surrounded by a walled garden in which caged birds are hung. The [[Feast of the Ever-Living Lake Child]] is a speciality of the restaurant. The fish is caught from nearby rivers and cooked in a unique way. When the fish is served on the table, its mouth is still opening and closing and its gills flapping. Diners should not be frightened; it is falsely alive. The secret lies in keeping the nerve of the fish intact.



===Nectar & Sweets Pavilion===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]].

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''Description:'' The [[Nectar & Sweets Pavilion]] is a small bakery and teahouse near the [[Academy for Cultivation of Youthful Talents]], a Dynastic primary school in the [[Imperial City]], owned by the portly retired Dynast [[Tepet Magdit]], who once served in the [[1st Imperial Legion]]. The Pavilion is a popular destination for teachers, students with a free afternoon and some pocket money, or for parents taking children out for a treat during a visit as reward for some academic accomplishment or defeat inflicted on a schoolyard rival. The Pavilion sells a variety of [[Tea]]s and sweet pastries, as well as light meals.



===Hall of Western Waves===

''Patents:'' [[House Peleps]].

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''Description:'' The [[Hall of Western Waves]] is a small restaurant near the [[Academy for Cultivation of Youthful Talents]], a Dynastic primary school in the Imperial City. Sells meals and snacks of the [[Western School Cuisine|Western School]], mostly to students, parents, and alumni of the Academy. It is currently owned by [[Peleps Staemos]].



===Teahouse of the Summer Moon===

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''Description:'' A well-appointed [[Tea]]house in the [[Onyx Curtain District]], popular with actors and musicians of Dynastic or patrician backgrounds. The [[Teahouse of the Summer Moon]] has rooms sometimes rented by visiting troupes as they put on performances in the [[Imperial City]]. The Summer Moon is known to brew its own variety of sweet potato brandy, quite popular with artists and theater-goers, and provides barrels to be sold by hawkers during events at the [[Grand Colosseum]].



===Parlour of the Flying Fish===

''Patents:'' [[House Sesus]], [[House Ragara]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

The [[Parlour of the Flying Fish]] is an upscale restaurant in the Eastern Market, specializing in [[Western School Cuisine]]. During the lunch and afternoon, they do not accept reservations, and the place is always packed. Dynasts go to the head of the line with their guests. At night, tables are by reservation only... unless you are a Dynast, in which case someone with a reservation will certainly be kicked out to make room for you. The decor is rose wood panelling throughout, making the place feel warm and inviting. There are colourful lanterns strung everywhere providing a soft light. There is a special light and frothy beer called [[Sudzou]], that is served to everyone who gets a table. This is the only place in the City that serves it, for it is brewed carefully in the basement.



===Xinia’s All-Night Teahouse===

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[[Xinia's All-Night Teahouse]] is a quiet shop in the Western Market, panelled in warm, golden woods. There are no tables here, nothing formal. There's a bar where you can get over-priced finger foods and nearly any kind of [[Tea]] in Creation (. The rest of the room is devoted to worn, plushy couches and chairs. There is plenty of good light, and smoking is allowed, the air always heavy with the scent of [[Tobacco]] (and sometimes [[Soaring Hemp]]). This is a popular hang out for students, various government clerks studying for exams, and young patricians or Dynasts interested in a night of 'slumming.'


===Tavern of Inescapable Necessity===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' A low class tavern and [[Opium]] den in the lower Western Districts, near the [[Red Lantern District]], operated by the Necessity family of commoners. The [[Tavern of Inescapable Necessity]] is known for opiates and passable bowls of [[Chanos]]-style [[Laoman]].

 Ledaal Shinjo uncovered a smuggling connection at the tavern, including a connection to the City sewers. 


===Kitchen of Blessed Enlightenment===

''Patents:'' House Cynis.

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''Description:'' Eatery located in the shadow of the Strength-of-Arms Arena, in the Imperial City's Western Districts. The [[Kitchen of Blessed Enlightenment]] has a grand kitchen whose primary purpose is to cater to those attending the Arena, but which also appends a more direct eatery where dishes failing to meet Dynastic standards, and scraps left over from those that did, serve poor patricians and wealthy commoners. For such customers, a particular draw of the eatery is the dregs of finer wines, for bottles unfinished by the Realm's enlightened rulers can be emptied by those who could never afford such luxury absent their betters' rejection of it.  


===Diligent Spear Tavern===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:''Eatery located in the shadow of the Strength-of-Arms Arena. While most slaves sent for gladiatorial combat are tightly controlled, those who gain consistent victories are sometimes granted freedoms, and the [[Diligent Spear Tavern]] exists to cater to them... here, victorious gladiators may eat and drink freely, while common folk (and, on occasion, Dynastic or patrician fans) pay for meals and bask in the reflected glory of their favourite champions.  


===House of Ten Thousand Ecstatic Moments===

''Patents:'' Barat household ([[House Cynis]]).

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' High-class slave brothel for Dynasts in the Red Lantern District, and centre of management for a ring discreetly connecting prominent Dynasts and exotic concubines (which have been rumoured to include strange spirits, demons, and outcastes). The master of the [[House of Ten Thousand Ecstatic Moments]] is the wood-aspect [[Cynis Hurkon|Cynis Barat Hurkon]], known by the nickname ‘the Rat Whore’.


One of the most mundane services offered from the House of Ten Thousand Ecstatic Moments is the '[[:Category:Fivefold Seasonal Courtesans|Romance of the Five Seasons]]'.

===Rivan's Inn===

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''Description:'' [[Rivan's Inn]] is a low-class brothel in the Red Lantern District, whose prostitutes are drawn from the peasants of the [[Blessed Isle]], who sell their daughters and sons into servitude to make ends meet... though the laws of the Realm are clear that none of its people may be made slaves, at this and other low-class brothels on the [[Blessed Isle]] there can seem little difference between official slavery and this state of abused indenture.

===House of Kei===

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''Description:'' The [[House of Kei]] is a brothel in the Red Lantern District, whose prostitutes are drawn from the peasants of the [[Blessed Isle]], who sell their sons and daughters into servitude to make ends meet. Far more complex than [[Rivan's Inn]], the House of Kei is made up of several small suites where the rich play at being peasants: A session lasts six hours, during which the hired whore maintains the fiction of being a peasant wife or husband. They prepare low-class meals, launder clothes, and satiate lusts either on the rough bed, or on a pile of fresh hay in a room with walls painted to depict open fields.

===Season's Paradise Pavilion===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]], [[House Sesus]]

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''Description:'' The [[Season's Paradise Pavilion]] is a high-class concubine office in the Red Lantern District, which rents out trained female consorts on month-long contracts. Unlike the indenture at cheaper brothels, or the slave-lovers of Cynis flesh-dens, the Season's Paradise is staffed by free professionals.

===Theatre of Enticing Display===

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''Description:'' The [[Theatre of Enticing Display]] is a tavern-theatre in the Red Lantern District, wherein dancers display themselves in sensual performances to customers, who then place bids at an auction of their virtue. 


===House of Massage and Relaxation=== 

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''Description:'' The [[House of Massage and Relaxation]] is a brothel in the Red Lantern District, specializing in male masseuses and prostitutes. Due to its use of slaves, [[House Cynis]] has great influence here. 


===Garden of Youthful Pleasures===

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''Description:'' The [[Garden of Youthful Pleasures]] is a brothel used primarily by pedophiles due to the low average age of its slave-whores. Located in the Red Lantern District. Due to its use of slaves, [[House Cynis]] has great influence here. 


===House of Open Flowers===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]].

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''Description:'' The [[House of Open Flowers]] is a brothel and pleasure-slave training academy in the Red Lantern District, operated by [[Cynis Liu]]. The dancer [[Cynis Lara]] is counted amongst the trainers working here. 


===Upright Pillars Pavilion===

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''Patents:'' [[House Mnemon]], [[House Sesus]].

''Description:'' High-class concubine office in the Red Lantern District, supplying male concubines to the upper classes on month-long contracts. Unlike the indenture at cheaper brothels, or the slave-lovers of Cynis flash-dens, the [[Upright Pillars Pavilion]] is staffed by free professionals.


===House of Otoki===

''Patents:'' [[Scarlet Empress|Imperial]], [[House Tepet]], [[House Mnemon]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' A massage parlour in the Eastern Market run by [[Otoki Anma]], whose skill with his hands is second to none. No sex is sold at the [[House of Otoki]], for it is a place dedicated to the art and craft of the masseuse, and sensual pleasure would debase its perfected forms. Many Dynasts wait years for an appointment with master Anma, showering him with gifts and favours in exchange for a turn on his couch.

===Grand Colosseum===

''Patents:'' Imperial.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; / &bull; / x

''Description:'' A massive stone arena in the Eastern Districts, capable of seating thousands. Within it are held frequent games... the gladitorial contests occasionally hosted here by [[House Cynis]] can be large, including dozens of slave-gladiators, and  chariot races are very common and highly popular with the masses of citizens and patricians (fatalities are not uncommon). Dynastic boxes are numerous in the [[Grand Colosseum]], allowing wealthy Dynasts to observe while removing them from the stench of the crowd.


===Strength-of-Arms Arena===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]].

''Price:'' x

''Description:'' A large arena in the Western Districts, the [[Strength-of-Arms Arena]] is capable of seating several hundred. Within it are held frequent dog races, and sometimes gladitorial contests where slaves desperately battle each other sometimes to the death (though such deadly amusements are more to the taste of audiences in [[Arjuf]] and the [[Palace of Trees]] than the [[Imperial City]]. Occasionally the arena is used for a Dynastic duel, or pits a brave young bravo against a ferocious wild beast so he might test his skills and courage. 


===Crane Theater===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]], [[House Mnemon]].

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''Description:'' Located in the [[Onyx Curtain District]], operated by [[House Tepet]] and [[House Mnemon]]. The [[Crane Theatre]] is the oldest playhouse in the [[Imperial City]], located within a small marble building that seats barely a hundred people. Seats must be reserved years in advance, and only the most esteemed companies of players are invited to perform their works there, and these are always the traditional classics of [[Shogunate Era]] theatre.


===Celestial Stage===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]]

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''Description:'' Located in the [[Onyx Curtain District]] and operated by [[House Nellens]]. The [[Celestial Stage]] is the largest playhouse in the [[Imperial City]], capable of seating up to 5,000 people. Seating for wealthy Dynasts is located on upper balconies, while rows of seats for citizens fill lower balconies and surround the central stage. Theatre companies rent the Celestial Stage to put on their performances and collect their own admission, which tends to be affordable by many City residents... on major holidays or in response to events, the [[Scarlet Empress]] herself would often sponsor performances here to inform or mollify the public.


===Theatre of the Limber Thespian=== 

''Patents:'' Clan Bretegani ([[Patrician Clans|patrician clan]]).

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:''  Located in the [[Onyx Curtain District]]. Operated by the Bretegani patrician clan. The [[Theatre of the Limber Thespian]] is a small theatre, sometimes used for patrician performances and sometimes rented out by companies of players to provide a practice venue for rehersals. The Limber Thespian is surrounded by a pleasant wooded garden, filled with private nooks popular for refreshing breaks or late-night trysts. 


===Lazy Flame Theatre===

''Patents:'' None.

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''Description:'' Located in the [[Onyx Curtain District]] and operated by [[House Ragara]]. The [[Lazy Flame Theatre]] mall theatre, usually hosting plays from outside the Realm, particularly from the vibrant playwrights of [[Nexus]]. This foreign influence means the Lazy Flame is required to charge far higher prices for admission than it would normally like, placing it outside the range affordable by most citizens in the City. Its typical audience contains many rebellious young Dynasts, along with [[The Guild|Guild]] emissaries, Threshold ambassadors, and the like. 


===Stage of Midnight Song===

''Patents:'' Clan Agate ([[Patrician Clans|patrician clan]])

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''Description:'' Located in the [[Onyx Curtain District]] and operated by the Agate patrician clan. The [[Stage of Midnight Song]] is a small theatre, whose primary performances come from [[Black Robe Theatre]] troupes visiting from [[Chanos]].


===Rising Jade Pavilion===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]].

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''Description:'' The [[Rising Jade Pavilion]] is a high-class betting house run by the lady [[Cynis Nebada]], with a staff of accountants and astrologers to set its numbers. Here, [[Scarlet Dynasty|Dynastic clients]] may enjoy [[Tea]], the attentions of nubile slaves, and perhaps a game of [[Gateway]] as they bet huge sums on matters from who will take the Throne to the harvest yields of [[Cherak]] in the coming year. Those who place only small bets need not bother coming to the Pavilion... artifacts, manses, and [[Jade]] talents are the standard currency here. 


===Office of Odds and Investments===

''Patents:'' None.

''Price:'' &bull; to &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[Nellens Jimmu]], from his offices in the Eastern Market, operates a betting ring far more mundane than that of [[Cynis Nebada]], the [[Office of Odds and Investments]]. He travels with his betting table to sights where gambling might ensue... Dynastic duels, hunting parties, and the like... and sets up shop to take money on who will come out on top. Jimmu deals in relatively minor sums, and his cut of winnings is quite small, making him popular with casual gamblers amongst the Dynasty. 
[OOC: Minimum bet R1, maximum bet R3]. 


===The Six-Side Hole===

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''Description:'' [[The Six-Side Hole]] is a low-class bar and gambling den, where dice and cards are the games of choice.


===Ten Lanterns Casino===

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''Description:'' The [[Ten Lanterns Casino]] is a low-class bar and gambling den, featuring [[Rat Racing]], [[Mahjong]], and the deadly game of [[Venoiko]].


===House of the Golden Cloud===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' An ornate drughouse in the Red Lantern district, the [[House of the Golden Cloud]] is filled with rooms coated in silk cushions and lit with smoking braziers of [[Soaring Hemp]]. Here, for the right price, a discerning Dynast can enjoy all manner of intoxicating delights, with experienced pleasure slaves available to intensify the experience. Most Dynasts come not only for diversion, but for business: the master of the House, [[Cynis Penor]], is known as the City's most resourceful drug-dealer, though his prices are steep. 



===Tang's Parlour===

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' A simple teahouse in the Red Lantern district, [[Tang's Parlour]] offers more than steeped [[Tea]] leaves. Along with a number of drinks and snacks, the servants here offer up various blends and mixtures that can be alternately smoked in pipes, made into tea, or sprinkled over sesame cakes. Not ornate enough for many ranking Dynasts, Tang's Parlour is a place for patricians and poor Dynasts to wile away the hours. 



===Den of Blissful Flight===

''Price:'' x

''Description:'' A shady, dilapidated building in the Red Lantern District, the [[Den of Blissful Flight]] supplies the needs of those whose lot in life is the drudgery of peasant or citizen life. The drug of choice here is [[Quat]], though there are often rumours of [[Heroin|more potent]] and numbing agents at work here as well.

===Bathhouse of Ever-Flowing Waters===

''Price:'' &bull;

''Description:'' While Dynasts and rich patricians enjoy the luxury of private baths, those with only moderate wealth are forced to visit public bathhouses such as the [[Bathhouse of Ever-Flowing Waters]]. Here, for a few coins one can enjoy use of large pools containing hot and cold water, as well as pumice stones and horsehair brushes. For a few more coins, one may purchase a bit of vinegar to clean one's pores, or oil to massage one's skin. The visitor is, of course, expected to accomplish these tasks without the aid of servants, as personal service is a thing for the wealthy.



===Spa of Comforts Ascendant===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]], [[House Mnemon]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' While almost all Dynasts have access to their own baths, from the large copper tubs carried by servants through the [[Imperial Palace]] to the saunas of the Deliberative to the private pools of many manse-gardens, there are some who prefer to depart their dwellings and attend the [[Spa of Comforts Ascendant]], where the expert staff elevate bathing from mere activity to art. The Spa has saunas and a number of hot and cold pools for bathing in groups, followed by the individual attentions of a servant in a private bath... here, a visitor is bathed clean with soaps and shampoos, before receiving an expert massage using scented oils.



===Spa of Comforts Ten-Yards-Distant===

''Patents:'' [[House Ledaal]].

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' Ten yards from the main building of the Spa of Comforts Ascendant sits a much smaller bathhouse, the [[Spa of Comforts Ten-Yards-Distant]]. It offers similar services to its larger neighbour, though the opulence of the decor is somewhat reduced. The Ten-Yard-Distant Spa serves an exclusive clientèle: sorcerers, who are barred from entry into the Spa of Comforts Ascendant.



===House of Ijibe, Sword Polishers=== 

''Patents:'' Clan Ijibe ([[Patrician Clans|patrician clan]]), [[House Mnemon]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The [[House of Ijibe, Sword Polishers|shop of the Ijibe artisan clan]] is considered to be the best place to have one's [[Jade Alloy]]s cared for in the city. Located in the Eastern Market, the polishers of the House of Ijibe are experts at treating and cleaning jade weapons and armour, maintaining such valuable pieces to ensure they last on unmarred into eternity. A full polish usually takes the staff at least one day. Slightly more costly than visiting the House personally is to hire House Ijibe polishers to visit one's dwelling and polish one's artifacts.



===Violet Brush and Ink===

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:''  [[Violet Brush and Ink]], in the 9th Ward of the Eastern districts, is owned by an elderly artisan named [[Gakou]], a skilled calligrapher who sells brushes, ink and paper; both for writing and artwork. He also makes copies of paintings and calligraphy pieces by demand and it is said that his work is of excellent quality.



===House of Sazuro===

''Patents:'' Clan Sazuro ([[Patrician Clans|patrician clan]])

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' On the Street of the Fatman, just off the Eastern Market, can be found the [[House of Sazuro|shop of "the Fatman"]], [[Sazuro Nisemono]], a wealthy patrician with extensive mercantile interests. If you need to sell something and you are not interested in how much you will lose on the transaction, then go to the Fatman Sazuro. 



===Gilded Saffron Silk Works===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]], [[House Mnemon]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' One of the finest (and most expensive) tailors and silk producers on the [[Blessed Isle]], working only in custom pieces. At [[Gilded Saffron Silk Works]] clients consult with owner [[Cynis Tomi]] to choose fabrics and patterns for the creation of truly unique textile artworks designed to their tastes. Located in the Eastern Market.



===Seamstress of Sensual Silks=== 

''Patents:'' [[House Sesus]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The [[Seamstress of Sensual Silks]] is one of the finest (and most expensive) tailors in the [[Imperial City]]. Owner [[Sesus Ditara]] crafts [[Works by Sesus Ditara|elaborate and beautiful items of clothing]], displayed in her warehouse in the East Districts for Dynastic clients to peruse and purchase those that strike their fancy.



===Warehouse of Perfected Cloth===

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; 

''Description:''  A textile dealer and tailor in the [[Imperial City]]'s Eastern Market, dealing almost entirely in cotton wares imported from [[Incas]] prefecture. The [[Warehouse of Perfected Cloth]] has a clientèle of mostly patricians and wealthy merchants.



===Warehouse of Succulent Chops===

''Patents:'' [[House Nellens]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The [[Warehouse of Succulent Chops]] is the domain of [[Nellens Spolumbo]], the City's largest dealer in meats and [[Cattle]]. From this central hub, fresh and cured meats are distributed daily to butcher shops, restaurants, and wealthy households across the [[Imperial City]], including a number of butcheries owned by Spolumbo himself. The Warehouse also features a kitchen for the preparation of meats, both for its owner and clients wishing to sample the wares before placing a purchase. 

Spolumbo has also made arrangements with the monks of [[Saiji Temple]], who receive donations of any meat that has spoiled in his warehouses, which can be cooked and distributed tot he poor residents of the Western Districts.



===Quarrelous Peridot's Scrip and Security===

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:''   Traveling and need some local currency? Just arrive in the most beautiful city in Creation? Need a safe place to keep a document or jewellery? Come to [[Quarrelous Peridot's Scrip and Security]]. The shop is a small, well-off storefront, occupying the street level of a very tall and narrow building filling the space that was an alley two hundred years ago, in the Eastern Market. The floors are marble as are the walls and pillars, the whole place gleams tastefully. In such a small space, it seems silly to have grand pillars, at first, but a clever person will see that they are meant to making robbing the place more difficult... there is hardly room to swing a sword! Further precautions are taken, however, and Peridot always employs one archer to sit in a concealed room near the high ceiling where she can help should trouble arise. Peridot keeps the valuables in an elaborate series of vaults, further complicating any robbery attempt. She is licensed to change foreign currencies in the [[Imperial City]], and a writ of the [[Scarlet Empress]] (granted for some unknown but assuredly momentous service by an ancestor) means he is the only one in the City allowed to exchange the [[Silver]] [[Dinar]]s of [[The Guild]] for Realm coins and scrip (a fact of significant frustration for Guild factors). Peridot also charges a small fee to people who'd like her to keep small valuables safe for them in her vaults, and both her security and her discretion are said to be unimpugnable.



===[[Ragged Lace]]===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]], [[House Tepet]], [[House Sesus]], [[House Mnemon]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' (See [[Ragged Lace]]).



===Velvet Mortar's Herbs and Apothecary===

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' At first glance [[Velvet Mortar's Herbs and Apothecary]] seems to be little more than a grubby counter on Salt Apple Street in the Western Market. But if you go through the little door in the back, you find yourself in a small warehouse, a virtual cornucopia of herbs and chemicals from across creation.



===Shop of Ba===

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:''  Mister Ba is a very old man. His back is hunched and his hands shake. His only attachment to life is his old music store in the Red Lantern District, the [[Shop of Ba]]. It is a tiny shop, with reams of sheet music for sale, some of which might have been long lost to Creation's musicians. Mister Ba knows where every piece is, even though some of his bins haven't been opened in decades and are covered in dust. He loves nothing more than when musicians come to shop, chattering about music and composers. Mister Ba never joins their conversations, he is extraordinarily quiet. The shop itself has a green door with the Old Realm character for 'music' painted on it, and nothing more. It is crowded with files and bins of sheet music. There is a desk, behind which Mister Ba sits, sometimes dozing. He has an old grey cat who haunts the store like a jealous lover.



===House of Whirling Blades===

''Patents:'' [[House Tepet]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The [[House of Whirling Blades]] is a restaurant for Dynasts and wealthy patricians, located in the Dynastic districts. It is famed for the performances of its carvers, who carve the fowl that makes up most of the menu at the table of diners just before eating, a task embellished by acrobatic flourishes and showy bladework. The Blades is operated by Boiler Pipe, a retired officer of the [[3rd Imperial Legion]] once renowned for his skill at swordplay. 



===Bleeding Ruby Teahouse===

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''Description:'' The [[Bleeding Ruby Teahouse]] is a large [[Tea]]house for artisans and poorer patricians, located in the 9th Ward of the Eastern districts and owned by [[Thesk Tarn]]. The teahouse is three floors tall, the upper two floors open at the center to allow diners to gaze down below. The building gets its name from its roof tiles, a faded red colour... when originally built, the tiles were bright and vibrant red, but the paint and lacquer were of poor quality and the colour ran down the walls, staining them with waves of red and pink.



===The Painted Log===

''Patents:'' None yet.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[The Painted Log]] is a woodcarver’s shop in the [[East 9th Ward|9th Ward]] of the Eastern districts, specializing in lacquered wood figures, available in a variety of poses and colours. Custom work can also be done, though this can take some weeks and is quite a bit more costly. With the arrival of the 4th Legion in the City, the Painted Log has seen brisk business with two new figures: one a giant officer with horns of flame, the other a lancer riding a lion-horse. So far, these rather iconic carvings have escaped [[Immaculate]] censure.



===Ukino House of Print===

''Price:'' n/a

''Description:'' [[Ukino House of Print]] was a shop in the East 9th Ward, formerly specializing in carving [[:Category:Woodblock Prints|woodblock]] prints and producing broadsheets. This remains an expensive process, but is the primary means of disseminating information to the general population. As with all print shops, the largest part of its business was producing copies of the [[Immaculate Texts]], but it is known to have diverged to print a broadsheet maligning the [[4th Imperial Legion]] at the time that Legion was preparing to take up the post of [[Imperial Garrison]]. In [[RY768]] it was forcibly closed by the 4th Legion, its owner [[Ambrim Baig]] killed and its assets seized to found the [[Zhoutarn Diligent Printery]]. 



===Zhoutarn Diligent Printery===

''Patents:'' [[Sesus Dochao|Dochao]] household ([[House Sesus]]).

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[Zhoutarn Diligent Printery]] is a newly opened shop in the East 9th Ward, specializing in carving [[:Category:Woodblock Prints|woodblock]] prints and producing broadsheets. Owned by [[Thesk Tarn]] and [[Sesus Zhoutai]]. It holds the official exclusive contract for printing work from the [[Imperial Garrison]] and all of its officers.



===Chisel and Saw Quarry===

''Patents:'' None (yet)

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' Stonecarvers’ workshop of moderate size, located in the [[East 9th Ward]], operated by the [[Gadugi]] family of citizens. The [[Chisel and Saw Quarry]] suffered closure for violating [[Immaculate]] strictures in RY768, the family patriarch Gadugi the Elder ordered to undertake a [[Penitential Pilgrimage]] for his iconic depictions by a monk from [[Toji Temple]], but has since been re-opened due to the intervention of [[Imperial Garrison]] winglord [[Sesus Septimus]], under Gadugi's son and apprentice Gadugi the Younger.



===Farm of Blessed and Eternal Chains===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' Large slave market controlled by [[Cynis Akabar]], located just outside the [[Imperial City]]. The [[Farm of Blessed and Eternal Chains]] is a place for breaking slaves so that they can take up duties in the residences of the City without acting against their Dynastic masters. It is a major source of slaves for the [[Bevy of Effacious and Facile Blossoms]].



===Bed of Crocus and Peonies===

''Patents:'' [[House Cynis]]

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The [[Bed of Crocus and Peonies]] is a compound in the Western Districts, containing quarters and pens for the Peony and Crocus Troupes of the Cynis slave company [[Bevy of Effacious and Facile Blossoms]]. The troupes, overseen by [[Cynis Theren]] and [[Sesus Kimiasha]], are rented to serve for various Dynastic galas and functions around the City.


===Jade Pearl Teahouse===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' The Jade Pearl is a fine teahouse located on Salt Apple Street, frequented by wealthier commoners and poorer patricians, as well as the occasional [[House Nellens]] Dynast with business in the [[Western Market]]. Several floors high, the Teahouse is hung with numerous bright lanterns tinted in the colours of [[Jade]], and its rooms are heavy in incense due to a nearby drainage canal pouring into the [[Imperial City Sewers]].

===Kana Gongfeng Office===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[Kana Gongfeng Office]] is an accounting and insurance assessment office operated by a branch of the [[Patrician Clans|Kana patrician clan]]. The Office is headed by [[Kana Alisoya]] and his daughter [[Kana Kokar]], patricians and licensed gongfeng. Alisoya is a cold, cruel man, Kokar somewhat lazy, but their work is acceptable and their rates not high. 




===Zipang Tastes of the Sea===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' [[Zipang Tastes of the Sea]] is a chain of food carts run by the Zipang family of citizens, led by their elder patriarch [[Zipang Teradama]], whose commercial empire began with a single cart, attempting to adapt the dishes of [[Western School Cuisine]] into something affordable to the citizen purse. Today Zipang controls dozens of carts bearing his name, operated by his children (of which there are 22, all daughters), their spouses, and the older amongst his grandchildren, as well as a small warehouse to supply them and other small seafood restaurants in the City with fish, mostly caught locally in the rivers of the [[Scarlet Prefecture]]. 



===Maksi Fitting and Form===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[Maksi Fitting and Form]] is a tailor's shop in the Eastern Market, where patrician seamstress and designer [[Maksi Cho]] prepares [[Silk]] court garments for patrician clients, using silks provisioned by her [[Patrician Clans|family]] on the [[Silk & Pearl Peninsula]]. Peninsular Silk is considered of lower quality than that of [[Lord's Crossing]], and the bolts destined for patricians lesser than those meant for the wealthy Exalts of the [[Scarlet Dynasty]], but even middling silk remains silk, and much appreciated by Fitting and Form's clientèle. 



===Shaar Jun's Jeweller===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' Shaar Jun is a citizen craftsman, specializing mostly in copper and pewter accessories to decorate the bodies of the citizenry. Due to the tradition of marital rings, peasants also seek out his services, and like many luxury artisans who might run afoul of demands that their goods be bought in [[Jade]] currency not [[Scrip]] he maintains a purse of jade coins which he will exchange for scrip (at a profitable exchange rate for himself), after which he retakes the jade as payment for his services, allowing him to double-charge his poor  clientele. Jun is a skilled jeweler, but a cruel man, and in addition to delighting in forcing peasant clients to grovel he beats his apprentices (including his daughter Shaar Geryn) for minor infractions, and had done the same to his son before the boy left to found his own jeweller's shop at [[Shaar Barrin's Jeweller]]. 



===Shaar Barrin's Jeweller===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' Shaar Barrin is a citizen craftsman, specializing mostly in copper and pewter accessories to decorate the bodies of the citizenry. Due to the tradition of marital rings, peasants also seek out his services, and like many luxury artisans who might run afoul of demands that their goods be bought in [[Jade]] currency not [[Scrip]] he maintains a purse of jade coins which he will exchange for scrip (at a fair rate of exchange), after which he retakes the jade as payment for his services. Barrin was trained at the family jewelry shop, [[Shaar Jun's Jeweller]], but left before his apprenticeship was completed due to the cruel abuses of his father. Barrin is a much kinder person than his father... but undeniably the lesser jeweller of the two. 



===The Loyal Scavenger===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[The Loyal Scavenger]] is a food cart operated by the Engrahid citizen family, specializing in River Province foodstuffs. The family are descendants of Scavenger Lands natives who supported the [[Scarlet Empress]] in her invasions of their homeland, and were forced to evacuate when she was ousted lest they be executed as collaborators. They have passed down their recipes across many generations, and continue to provision the citizens of the city with dishes such as [[Spun Wrap]]s. The current family head is Engrahid Mirza.



===Vansha Keel===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[Vansha Keel]] is an apothecary working in the Imperial City, specializing in cosmetics and beauty products. Obsessed with beauty, many of Keel's products have been created and tested on her own body... that her beauty is known across the [[Eastern Wards]] attests to the quality of her work and attracts many customers. 



===Kang Bakeries===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' The Kang family are an ancient lineage of bakers, with branches and [[Kang Bakeries|bakeries]] scattered across the wards of the Imperial City. As only the wealthiest homes feature their own ovens, City families must buy their bread each morning at bakeries, and Kang recipe loaves are good, cheap bread to be torn and dipped in sauces or used to soak up every drop of fat or soup from another dish. Amongst the Kang bakers, however, success has bred new problems: a few amongst the younger generation of Kangs look to new innovations and imported recipes... Kang Sunaja of the [[East 8th Ward]] has been hawking dark heavy Northern loaves with some success, earning the wrath of family patriarch Kang Fang. Kang Banka, a more conservative baker, operates the bakery in the [[East 9th Ward]].



===Duck no Park===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' [[Duck no Park]] is a citizen cook and baker dwelling in the [[East 9th Ward]], specializing in stuffed buns and dumplings, preferring the steamer to the oven as the pre-eminent tool of the baker. He is somewhat talented, but afflicted with the occasional green feather appearing amidst his hair, signs of a violation of the [[Perfected Hierarchy]] in his ancestry, requiring caution lest he attract the wrath of the [[Immaculate Order]].  



===Khouzam of Vatamu===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' [[Khouzam of Vatamu]] is a middle-aged citizen baker, originally from the port of [[Vatamu]], who recently moved to the [[Imperial City]] in search of greater opportunities and has settled in the [[East 9th Ward]]. His breads are simple and crusty, but well regarded, and local shoppers consider him to make a particularly tasty pineapple bun. Khouzam keeps a shortsword on the wall of his shop, a memento of service in the [[Imperial Legions]] in his youth, though he often jests its purpose is so he can immediately gut anyone who asks for pineapple in their bun. 



===Golden Griddle===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' x

''Description:'' The [[Golden Griddle]] is a cheap eatery in the [[East 9th Ward]], serving up fried eggs and potato-leek [[Griddle Cake]]s to Ward residents. 



===Hopping Hops House===

''Patents:'' none.

''Price:'' x

''Description:'' Local brewery in the [[East 9th Ward]], supplying a light [[Lager]] brewed mostly from [[Rice]], flavoured heavily from the hops growing up trellises on the sides of the building... as the rice provides little flavour, the brewers are heavy with their hops to impart a bitter taste heavy in floral notes. The [[Hopping Hops House]] supplies a number of businesses and workplaces in the [[East 8th Ward|surro]][[East 39th Ward|undin]][[East 12th Ward|g wa]][[East 54th Ward|rds]], including the [[Bleeding Ruby Teahouse]]. Overseen by Thesk Tarn.

===Carving & Carpentry===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' [[Carving & Carpentry]] is a woodcarver's shop in the [[East 9th Ward]] specializing in simple furniture and cut lumber for construction. 



===Eyrie of Hoof and Claw===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' The [[Eyrie of Hoof and Claw]] is a set of kennels and stables located on the road just outside the [[Gate of Eternal Harmony]], to care for and train the riding [[Horse]]s and hunting animals ([[:Category:Falconry|Raptors]] & [[Dog]]s) of the [[Scarlet Dynasty]], particularly those of [[House Sesus]], which controls the land on which his facilities have been raised. It is overseen by the mortal citizen [[Huge Kneebones]]. Amongst the Eyrie's notable features is a small but beautiful rock garden, where Dynastic clients can take [[Tea]] while waiting for their animals to be readied, or where those animals can be posed for painting.  



===Kaa-moku Capital Stableyard===

''Patents:'' none.

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''Description:'' [[Kaa-moku Capital Stableyard]] is a stable and horse pasture located just outside the [[Imperial City]], beside the road leading from the [[Gate of Eternal Harmony]] operated from land controlled by [[House Cathak]]. Its overseer, [[Kaa-moku Rashiod]], is considered an expert in the care and breeding of [[Horse]]s. The Stableyard also maintains a set of weavers to provide an additional service, the creation of caparisons for horses, bearing the [[Mon]], imagery, and colours of riders, either purely for decoration or as an accompaniment to leather and metal [[Barding]].



===Splendid Essence Restaurant===

''Patents:'' [[House Mnemon]].

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''Description:'' [[Splendid Essence Restaurant]] is an eatery in the Imperial City’s [[East 8th Ward]]. While operated and ostensibly serving the common folk, Splendid Essence has achieved fame over the past decade for the quality of its soup dumplings, said to be amongst the best in the [[Imperial City|Capital]]. Though the stigma of frequenting a common establishment keeps most scions of the [[Scarlet Dynasty]] distant, Dynastic customers are far from unknown at the restaurant. The operator of the Splendid Essence, [[Delectable Fat]], has so far refused generous offers from numerous Dynastic households, the grant of a Patent from [[House Mnemon]] thought by many to be the only reason he has not been forced to close and take service in a private kitchen. 


===Garden of Ten Thousand Glories===

''Patents:'' none (though not for lack of effort on the part of the Great Houses).

''Price:'' &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull;

''Description:'' [[Garden of Ten Thousand Glories]] is a garden estate among the Dynastic villas of the eastern North districts, where the Dynastic perfumer [[Cynis Patila]] crafts her much-sought [[Fragrances of Cynis Patila|fragrances]]. 


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