Valerian Square Market District (40x40) (Patreon)

Valerian Square is a small market district built on a slope. The district is known for its many specialty shops and masters of peculiar crafts and arcane arts. 

The small market square at the center of the district, Valerian Square (#17), has a small booths and tents selling herbs, spices, amulets, trinkets and other specialty goods. You might even find a fortuneteller or an exotic performer there. 

In addition to the shops and workshops there are other places of interest to go to.

Bottomless Barrel is a local tavern (#18), which is very famous among local adventurers, arcanists, and treasure hunters. 

People claim that  the best food in the district is served in Plate & Meal (#11), which is run by a retired knight and adventurer, Bristo Gaens.  The restaurant specializes in exotic foods, like manticore meat and gelatinous vanilla cubes.

Key Explanations

Here are some ideas for the map keys:

• 1) Tanner - leather goods and armor 
• 2) Mezca's Maps - maps and cartographic services
• 3) The Three-Horned Minotaur - tavern and brothel
• 4) Butcher's shop
• 5) The Great Azborne - necromantic supplies and services 
• 6) Drokha's Gym - A small cellar gym with a fighting cage
• 7) Draconic Trust - Banking and loan services for adventurers and entrepreneurs 
• 8) Bathhouse - refreshing bath after adventuring
• 9) Dwarvish Cobbler - best boots and shoes for underground expeditions
• 10) Goldsmith - buys and sells gold, silver, and other precious metals 
• 11) Plate & Meal - Adventurous cuisine
• 12) Watchmaker - makes and mends watches and other clockwork devices
• 13) Glass grinder - mirrors and magnifying lenses
• 14) Alchemists' store - alchemical powders, oils, and liquids
• 15) Elvish Bakery - tasty and nutritious  bread and cookies for parties and long trips 
• 16) Herbal store - medicinal and magical herbs and extracts
• 17) Valerian square
• 18) Bottomless Barrel - tavern
• 19) Shady Candle Inn - a place for shady deals, no questions asked 
• 20) Jeweler - sells and buys fine jewelry and gems
• 21) Fine tailor - makes the best suits and hats in town
• 22) Topped well
• 23) Armorer's workshop - all kinds of metal armor and weapons
• 24) The Bilton's - a good quality inn with a bath in the cellar and restaurant at the bottom floor.
• 25) Guild House & Adventurer's Club
• 26) Gnomish Apothecary - healing potions, salves, and antidotes
• 27) Adventurers' thrift store - buys and sells everything an adventurer needs
• 28) Arrow and Sparrow - a restaurant with birds servings as a specialty 
• 29) Arcane Tunes - Extraordinary musical instruments
• 30) Books & Scribe's supplies - books, quills, parchment, and best ink in town 
• 31) City watch office - a small office and a single holding cell 

Map Pack Contents

This 40x40 square (140px/square) map comes with the following versions:

• Color map with and without a grid
• B&W map with and without a grid
• Night version with and without a grid
• A keyed version in color, b&w, and night colors. 

A layered high-resolution tiff file (300 dpi) and a full-length timelapse video are available in the Hero Archive.

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