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Golden throne is the best place to meet any of the
merchant princes without an appointment. They rarely
meet with visitors who show up unannounced at their
homes. During the day, each merchant prince has a
l-in-6 chance to be at Goldenthrone, accompanied by a
retinue of aides and guards. Characters must wait ld3
hours before being given an audience. In fact, the mer-
chant princes have few day-to-day responsibilities when
it comes to running Port Nyanzaru, so unless a meeting
is being held to discuss city business, the delay is just a
tactic to underscore who's in charge. If the characters
have interesting news, they're likely to obtain an audi-
ence and to be given as much of the merchant's time as
they need.

5. MERCHANT PRINCE'S VILLA
Each merchant prince has a private villa in the city.
These residences have beautifully plastered walls
adorned with bright murals, patios and arcades fes-
tooned with fresh flowers, garden courtyards open to
the sky, and enormous cisterns equipped with water
wheels to power fountains, fans, and kinetic sculptures.
None of the merchant princes is likely to meet player
characters who show up unannounced at their doors
unless the characters did something noteworthy (such
as winning a dinosaur race, stopping a rampaging carni-
vore, or completing an expedition that made significant
tunity for bystanders to become heroes in the city and discoveries). The exception is Wakanga O'tamu, who
earn favors from the merchant princes. welcomes any adventurers traveling in the company of
Syndra Silvane.
3. R EFUSE PIT For details of a sample villa, see "Merchant Prince's
An enormous sinkhole serves as the city's garbage Villa," page 27.
dump. Every type of refuse gets tossed here, up to and
including dead bodies. It's a festering scar of garbage, 6. GRAND SOUK
rancid water, and vermin. Rats, insects, and ravens The Grand Souk, or market, is one of the three beating
abound. Ghouls are sometimes seen prowling through hearts of Port Nyanzaru-the others being the jewel
the pit in search of fresh corpses. market and the Red Bazaar. True to its name, the Grand
Although the level of refuse in the pit rises and falls, Souk is the grandest of the three.
the pit never gets full. This is thanks to an unknown Traders from up and down the Sword Coast come to
number of otyughs living at the bottom and eating their this market to buy timber, spices, medicines concocted
fill daily. They're content to remain in the bountiful pit, from jungle plants, dinosaur skulls and claws, iron,
but they'd quickly pounce on anyone careless or unlucky tiger pelts, carved ivory, Batiri and grung handiwork,
enough to slip on the greasy edge and fall in. colored feathers, tropical fruit, monkeys, plesiosaur
meat, and all the other riches of Chult. Business begins
MERCHANTS' WARD before the sun comes up, and dealing doesn't stop until
well arter darkness edges across the city. It's a noisy,
The western half of the city is called the Merchants' jostling, aroma-rich circus. Guards are numerous, but
Ward because it's the site of the Grand Souk and be- less numerous than the urchins and pickpockets. Street
cause many of the merchant princes' villas are there. In performers and tabaxi minstrels add to the cacophony.
general, this is the upper-class section of the city. The Colorful awnings protect the market from sun and rain
majority of the city's merchants and traders actually live but also trap the heat and smells.
and work in the Market Ward.
Everything listed in chapter 5 of the Player's Hand-
book can be purchased in the Grand Souk. Unusual
4. 00LDENTHRONE
This palace serves as the meeting place for the mer- items might not be available (elephants aren't found in
chant princes of Port Nyanzaru and is recognized as the Chult, for example), but a merchant can always be con-
seat of the city's loose government. Jt was built decades tracted who'll bring an item to order, for the right price.
ago by an Amnian trader and is one of the most opulent 7. TEMPLE OF SAVRAS
structures in the city, rivaled only by the grander tem- Savras is a deity of wizards, fortune tellers, diviners,
ples and the merchant princes' villas. An honor guard of and those who unfailingly speak the truth regardless
eight Chultan gladiators is always on duty, to keep away of whether listeners want to hear it. His symbol is a
loiterers in the daytime and thieves in the night.
monstrous eye, or a crystal ball filled with eyes. Savras's
temple is one of the oldest, grandest buildings in the

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