Silk Market (Torrune)

The Silk Market is the most popular name for a large bazaar in the north-central part of Torrune's High City, occupying much of the eponymous Silk-Seller's Quarter. 
Its name reflects the fact that it originated as an emporium for the sale of silks, brocades, and other expensive fabrics, but it has now grown into a much larger and more diverse marketplace in which luxury goods of every type can be found. Almonds, citrus-fruit, and aromatized wines from Alondria; silk, resins, and camphor from Urem; furs from Gundarra; cedar-wood from Tythium; jewelry, wrought gold, and wondrous metal-work of every type from the dwarven lands; amber from Kamuria; slaves from Thelbiron, XXXXXX, and Aumegaron; laquerwares and incense from Kelimaria; spices and teak from the Western Isles; curatives and elixirs from the city's own alchemists; the best spirits from Charagma and the Sornele; opals and tiger-eye gems from Ojaum; these are a few of the commodities that are traded here. 
Like parts of the even larger Aulgasmark, much of the Silk Market consists of arcade-flanked lanes covered over with vaulted roofs to shield them from the elements. Thus most of the market is enclosed and resembles a set of long, high-ceilinged galleries intersecting one another in a grid-like pattern, lined with the storefronts of hundreds of merchants.