Bazaar (Menzoberranzan)

The Bazaar was the permanent market of Menzoberranzan located in the district of Duthcloim (also known as Manyfolk). Some considered the Bazaar the heart of Menzoberranzan.

Description
The Bazaar of Menzoberranzan attracted merchants and buyers from across the multiverse. Most races were welcome (with the exception of beholders, neogi and githyanki), and as long as the peace was kept and proper respect was shown to matron mothers, someone (or something) could buy whatever they might have desired here (including cadavers ), though non-drow were often spied upon.

In the Bazaar were cobblers, riding lizards, duergar, kuo-toa, and ogre mages. Slaves included orcs, gnolls, bugbears, goblins, and kobolds. There was also at least barber stall, a game tent, and a portrait painter. There were also performers on the streets.

The Bazaar smelled of surface produce, mulled wine, leather, frying oil, rothe dung, and blood.

Organization
No permanent structures were allowed within the accepted limits of the Bazaar by order of the council. Places of business were to move each day, so as to prevent monopolies on space and promote browsing, making finding a particular stall very difficult. Trainee wizards, clerics, and warriors were patrolled the Bazaar, providing firm, yet unobtrusive law enforcement.

Despite (or perhaps because of) the patrols, the Bazaar was home to many unlicensed and illicit activities.

History
During the great spell battle between Gromph Baenre and the Lichdrow Dyrr in 1373 DR, a great part of the Bazaar was destroyed. A number of merchants, returning to check the security of the goods, were killed and some were petrified. However, a short time later, the Bazaar was once again thriving.

Notable locations
Located in a stall made of fungus, the proprieter, Blundyth, had an arbalest and a toad familiar. He was killed in 1372 DR by Pharaun Mizzrym, who also set fire to and ransacked his shop.
 * Blundyth's wizard's supply shop :

A shop in the Bazaar selling wine, liquor, potions, and poisons.
 * Daelein Shimmerdark's Decanters :

Technically located just outside the borders of the Bazaar, this tavern epitomized the character of the area. It had no sign; customers had to knock on the door and be observed through a peephole. (Pharaun Mizzrym believed this added to its appeal.) Inside the main room played male drow musicians. The Jewel Box employed goblin slaves and held female prisoners in the brothel in the cellar. The bartender of the Jewel Box in 1372 DR was Nym, an old battle mage with only one leg.
 * The Jewel Box :

Novels

 * Daughter of the Drow
 * Dissolution
 * Annihilation
 * Resurrection