Nightshades

Below the city of Ambrosia lays the Nightshades, a series of catacombs and natural caverns that house the Goblin Market, as well as all manner of illegal activity. Above ground in the streets of Ambrosia, laws are followed, and if at all possible blood isn’t spilled, but in the lanes and caverns of the Nightshades anything goes.  

 

The Goblin Market   

The main central hub of the Nightshades is the sprawling maze of stalls and low building known as the Goblin Market. A place to fine anything, you can’t find at more reputable shops, do you need Tear of a Child for that potion, or maybe the Liver of a Hag for that ritual you’ve been dying to try, maybe to summon the demon you want needs the Pleas of a Murdered Priest, well don’t fear it can all be found at the Goblin Market. It’s surrounded by four fairly distinct districts, the Slave Market, the Skin Market, the Vice District, and the Guilds District.  

The Slave Market   

While slavery is frown upon, even in the Nightshades, the Slave Market is viewed as a necessary evil. A subdued expanse of auction houses, with stable like buildings housing the merchandise in stalls, for easy viewing and inspection. The average slave found in the Slave Market is some form of indentured servitude. Some are sold there to pay back a debt that the owner has no use for, while others are indebted to brokers that payed for their move to Ambrosia and are now working off the debt as an indentured servant.  

The Skin Market   

The name may scare an outsider, but the Skin Market is home to the oldest profession in the world, prostitution. The streets of this district are lined with brothels, some double as bars, but most are just plain no frills brothels. You can find any "partner" in this district, or for the right price someone to perform that kink you so desire. While most in the district are there willingly, as is the way of the Nightshades, the sad fact is that a rare few are probably there against their will, but the establishments that house them keep it as quite as can be for fear of the wrath that would come upon them.  

The Vice District   

What ever you need to get you through the day or night can be found is the varying establishments of this district, whether that be drink, both legal and illegal, or any form of drug one could imagine. A few of these establishments that sit close to the Skin Market may combine their services, allowing you to partake of all your vices in one convenient location. The establishments in the district learned long ago to provide extremely cheap, or free boarding, as the longer you keep a client around the more they will spend.  

The Guilds District   

This district has a completely different feel then the rest of the Nightshades. This is where all of those desperate contracts and shady deals are done. This is where all the guilds who partake in illegal activities reside, making it an area of extreme paranoia. Rival guilds attempt to steal clients even as they walk the street towards a guildhall, because of this conflicts flair up almost daily. If you couldn't find what you were looking for in the rest of the Nightshades, this is where you go, and one of the various guilds will find what you need, for a small fee of course. If you have work that needs to be done outside the Nightshades, whether that be smuggling, thievery or darker deeds, the guilds will be happy to help.