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Bezantur's Market Town Bosses - Balanor - 07-15-2009
Bezantur's Marklet Town is a vast eyesore, which spreads for may square miles beyond the city walls. It is actually a massive slum where trade in all forms of goods, contraband, slaves, and services goes on with little oversight from Aznar Thrul’s legion.
Market town is actually ruled by several rival crime bosses, all of whom pay tribute to the Bezantur thieves’ guild. The guild, in turn, allows the rival bosses to battle each other as they choose, so long as their conflict does not interfere with trade or guild thieves’ normal operations.
The High Road from Tyraturos passes directly through Market Town, but Aznar Thrul’s Legion keeps the road clear and protects traffic from attack.
Most merchants end up visiting Market Town sooner or later. Safe passage from the various bosses who control the slums is required and usually runs about 10 gp per person and 15 gp per wagon. Once in the trade settlement, virtually anything can be bought or sold, and Aznar’s troops only bother to intervene if the proper bribes have not been paid.
The major bosses of Market Town are Kevlin the Fat (CE hm T8), a corpulent but highly intelligent gangster whose thugs ruthlessly enforce his ill and whose financial managers keep the Red Wizards well paid; Phormin the Sly (LE hm T10), who favors guile and stealth in his dealings, and who maintains a corps of well-trained spies and assassins to keep him well supplied with blackmail information and to dispose of the occasional troublemaker; Halymira the Red (NE hf F7), a strapping woman said to be capable of lifting Kevlin with one hand, whose fighters and thieves are considered among the best in Market Town; and Diarka, a mysterious gang boss whose exact identity (and even his or her gender) remains unknown, but whose minions are every bit as ruthless and efficient as those of the other bosses.