Aulgu's Market (Torrune)

Aulgu's Market, also called Aulgasmark or simply the Grand Market, Great Market, or Great Bazaar, is the huge central marketplace of the city of Torrune. It is located in the middle of the Low City, north of the central riverfront and east of the Syrennian Hill. It is so large that its environs (i.e. the marketplace itself plus the neighborhoods around its edges) are considered a major quarter or district of Torrune in their own right. When referring to the whole quarter around the market, Aulgasmark is the term most commonly used.  
Some parts of the market take the form of a street grid or network of alleys, not much different from any other part of the city, with shops of a certain type all grouped together along various streets. Other parts consist of plazas divided up by long sections of covered arcades flanking open avenues, which provide rows of alcoves where vendors can set up stalls or stands with their wares (although in many such areas, stubborn hawkers have established permanent occupation of their alcove and their stalls have become practically miniature shops built into the space, with sturdy lockable trellises or grates to secure them when the owner is away). The lowest grade of peddlers simply gather around the edges of plazas and main streets, or along the back-lanes that run between blocks of shops, sitting cross-legged on an old blanket or reed mat with their wares spread out before them.  
In some places, barrel-vaulted or timbered roofs have been built over the streets and the lanes between arcades, enclosing them against the elements. This has created covered market areas like great high-ceilinged halls lined with dozens or even hundreds of shops. Some of the narrow twisting alleyways have been similarly roofed over, resulting in maze-like warrens (sometimes multi-leveled) filled with countless tiny businesses barely spacious enough to contain the proprietor and a handful of his wares on a single narrow shelf.  
Major streets or sub-markets include the Street of the Coin-Changers, the Street of the Lute-Makers, the Cordwainers' Lane, the Lamp-Makers' Street, the Court of the Wine Sellers, the Street of the Herb-Sellers, the Furrier's Street, the Olive-Sellers' Street, the Bootmender's Court, the Salt-Sellers' Way, and many others.
Aulgu's Market is named after Aulgu XXXXXXXX, one of the magistrates or procurators entrusted by the Dukes of Charagma with Torrune's administration in the early League days before the city gained its self-rule. His tenure was during the early days of the city's rebirth, when it had been restored from a mostly-ruinous state and was growing again into a major commercial hub based on the renewed river trade. It was he who ordered the demolition of an area of slums in the central Low City in order to create a large arcaded market plaza, which now forms a section of the much-expanded bazaar's southern part.
Besides the huge marketplace itself, the district called Aulgasmark extends south to encompass the Court of the Portreeve, the Splicer's Market, and Talrik's Square; its southern edge reaches down to the stretch of waterfront around the Fortress Bridge.