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=== Market District ===
Market District is, as the name implies, home to the city’s largest open market, with booths and stalls practically filling the large open paved space.  An apparently acceptable holdover from the Jhonian tradition of the bazaar, the market here is year-round, though considerably diminished during the winter.  It reaches its most fevered pitch in the peak harvest season, followed closely by the first offerings of spring.  As is to be expected, Market is a favored haunt of many a pickpocket, and one must watch ones purse carefully.  The Red Swords do what they can to keep the thieves at bay, but the press of people only allows so much.  Nothing illegal is allowed to trade in Market, although it is said that if one looks carefully there, one can find traffickers in illicit goods – but the actual transactions are conducted elsewhere, at appointed times.  The edges of the Market area are rife with taverns and public houses, though full-fledged inns are less common.