Splicer's Market (Torrune)

The Splicer's Market is a public marketplace in Torrune's Low City, in the southern portion of the Aulgasmark district. It is just south of the great market proper, separated from it by a few blocks (and with the Court of the Portreeve situated between the two). The southern edge of the Splicer's Market forms the northern boundary of Talrik's Square.
The Splicer's Market is so-named because it was historically home to many hemp-workers and ropemakers employed by the city's boat trade, some of whom specialized in splicing rope for the watermen. Nowadays relatively few of these remain and the market has more vendors of cloth, metalwares, and foodstuffs (especially butchers and fruit-sellers), but the name is still used.