Talrik's Square

Talrik's Square is a large open plaza in the south-central portion of Torrune's Low City. It is located in the southern part of the Aulgasmark district, just north of the waterfront and the Tower of Ghorodan at the Fortress Bridge's north end. It is named for Talrik of the House of Turpin, second Archon of Torrune, who ordered its construction and endowed funds for the monumental column which stands in the center of the plaza. This column, commonly called Talrik's Pillar for the same reason, is surmounted by a gilded statue of the goddess Sidra (thus is also often called Sidra's Pillar or the Sidrene Column). 
Despite it's name, Talrik's Square is actually triangular. It's northern edge is defined by the east-west thoroughfare known as XXXXXX, and its other two edges are formed by the diverging avenues of XXXXX and XXXXX, which split off to run northeast and northwest where the roadway of the Fortress Bridge emerges from the gate of Ghorodan's Tower. Across XXXXXX [east-west thoroughfare] from the plaza lies the Splicer's Market.
On certain days of the week, vendors such as fruit sellers and fishmongers are permitted to set up their wares in Talrik's Square, in which case the open plaza temporarily becomes a maze of walkways threading between rows of carts, tents, wagons, and canopy-shaded stalls. The rest of the time, it is criss-crossed by crowds of pedestrian going about their business, and inhabited by an ever-rotating cast of peddlers, beggars, street performers, and loitering itinerants. All are often forced to dodge aside as heavy oxcarts or galloping horsemen emerge from the end of the bridge and come cutting across the plaza.
Talrik's Square is also periodically used as a site of public executions, by tradition on each XXXXXXX Day when the criminals who have been condemned to die over the preceding year have their sentences carried out. On these occasions, a large wooden scaffold will be erected in the plaza for the purpose; afterwards, the remains of those executed will be carted through the Low City streets with a crier calling out people to see them, and thence to the Hill of Crows outside the walls for display on the gibbets there.