Nine Souls Market
It is the volatile capital of the Rain Claw Alliance. The multi-storey market is set up on giant trees, suspended paths and river platforms.
City identity
It is the floating capital of the Rain Claw Alliance. The multi-storey market is set up on giant trees, suspended paths and river platforms.
City information
Information is considered as property. The Kenku live recording guilds and the Tabaxi story families are in conflict over who owns the same contract.
Location in Avarra
| Field | Record |
|---|---|
| Continent | Odraka |
| Region | The nine river branches of the eastern monsoon forests |
| Physical site | Giant tree trunks, hanging bridges, and river platforms joined at high water |
| Access | Rope ways, river canoes, and upper-branch passages that open in rain season |
| Nearby ties | Ur-Marak, Rain Claw villages, eastern silk routes, and the border reeds |
The “centre” of Nine Souls Market moves with every monsoon. The market settles on whichever of nine platforms survives the water best, and the record guilds must move their contracts too. That mobility preserves knowledge while making ownership of every word a continuing dispute.
A market of information
Living Ledgers is the level where Kenku record guilds keep spoken, imitated, and witnessed contracts. Nine Boughs are hanging ways where Tabaxi story families trade narrative, lineage, and passage rights. Rain Bowl is the river square where debts of information are paid in water, silk, and medicine. A contract is valid only when both its record is heard and its story recognised.
Information is property here, but not merely a thing sold: recording someone’s memory wrongly can change their debt or kinship. Kenku guilds say no word exists legally without a record; Tabaxi families say a record without story is not a living person.
Table tensions
- Two living records of the same contract prove both sides right.
- One of Nine Boughs breaks in a monsoon night, yet every story standing on it moves to another bough.
- A childhood memory sold at Rain Bowl is demanded back as the price of powerful healing.