You wander the square of the thassa city of Port Kar, the cool stones that pave the streets near the docks coated with the residue of the salt spray left by the waters mist.In the darkening sunset of Port Kar is a shop. Within you may find all manner of goods for sale.It's fresh built timbers and alluring layout invite you within to spend coin.
This
is the shop of the Zant Family.
The square of Port Kar's Market place with the thassa and beach at her front, the store sitting on a deep cellar and with it's wide open front are inviting to visit and too tempting not to stop and view.
With plush couch seats as well as piles of comfortable furs and low tables , the shop invites you to stay and spend time or coin or both if she can talk you into it.
The open shelfs are lined with many things. Crates strewn about filled
with silks and slave baubles, bells and dancing silks. Several crates contain
whips and goads for slaves and
tarns.
There are several racks with clothes for Free women and tables piled with leather riding pants in blacks and browns, made from bosk and other hides. The table in the far back left of the shop is piled with larl pelts of a variety of colors from the hunters of the north.
The shelves near the door filled with intricate wood carvings, some of the most beautiful stag horns for the drinking of the meade, builders glasses, and vials of perfumes and rouges, scented oils and more.
Her inventory so vast now as she gathers more contacts for things everyone needs eventually, temwood lumbers, rence paper, rep cloths by the bolts and much much more.
Dish wares
"aquired" from several Cosian "trades at sea". As well as crates filled with
ta wines from the finest Cosian vineyards, Palm wine from Tyros, and from
deep within the Tahari golden Sirik chains, slave bells and all manner of
finely worked bina and bana.
Skins of many animals,bosk, kailiia, verr, even ost skins waiting to be bought or bartered for so the men may have them made to britches or boots coats or other needed goods.
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.The air within smelling fresh and new .One would never know the shop was once burnt by Cosians who's goods sale helped pay for the rebirth of it's mighty business.
Some of the
finest perfumers in Gor sell with Zant Emporium and the House of Tres
Swords Fallen. Shelf space in one of Port Kar's busiest shops is a prime
location for success.
Kailia saddles, harnesses, even shoes for their hooves can be bought or ordered for you through the mercantile.
Barrels
of Ale and kasks of different beers brewed from sa tarna hops and Torvald's
freshest spring waters are stacked in corners and along counters. Her fire
pit always brewing a small kettle of black wine and a small pot of fresh
warmed paga for the enjoyment of her customers.
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some of the freshest red fruit,larma,ta grapes and peppers lining her
shelfs your selection and variety ismost difficult to sort through.
And of course only the freshest in foods from the thassa as well as freshly salted tarsk and dried bosk strips stock her shelves as well.
Olives and olive oil, black tea and olongue tea.Bazi tea and the service sets for them all able to be found here.
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The House Tres Swords Fallen has a fine weapons smith and his more than capable handy work is show cased in a special area of the shop. And As well it should be as he is the head of the house, Melan Zant.
Here some of his best blades and reconditioned cross bows, as well as whips, shackles and more may be found.
The axes have the sharpest blades and his metal work skills have made possiable the retooling of tarn harnesses and several tarn saddles.
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Maps and scrolls, sketches and carvings, even intricate detailed shields designed for individule houses and families can be found within the walls of the Zant Emporium. This is her family's legacy and the backbone of her very existance. She was born to this. It is in her blood.The art of the deal, the bargain of price.This is a Merchant of Gor's lifes blood.And within these walls, surrounded by those of Port Kar and supported by Her house, she raises a family to follow in her footsteps though not yet sure which of her children will She is certain it will be one of the Zant childrne she was blessed to bring forth, be it Damon or DSrestyn or their baby sister Destina. One day all of what she builds will belong to her children.
detailed inventory and pricing for the shop
Her shop front opens to where she has modest rooms. A functional servery and kitchen bath and sleeping rooms to be found upstairs.She still putters in the kitchen there making sure there is paga and kalda and such.
The area for entertaining now as plush as most and a comfortable place with a wide low couch for company
Her shops busy most days and her ships set sail often .Leaving empty and returning with full bellies... her skilled "acquiring " techniques practiced on many a Cosian and Lydius vessel.She will sail near anywhere to make a profit.