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2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Voxiu/Cotton Row Market/Cotton Row Market.md

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+### Type:
+
+Bustling textile and dye district ([[Belter Overview|Belter]]-leaning), center of [[Voxiu]]’s fabric trade and public working-class life.
+
+---
+
+### Description:
+
+An endless maze of cloth-draped stalls, dye pits steaming with pungent vapors, and guild banners stitched high above cobblestone lanes. The air hums with chatter, loom-click, and the smell of wet dye, spice, and animal fat. Weavers, seamstresses, and banner-makers make up the bulk of the crowd, working families behind every stall. Textiles here are fiercely symbolic — cloth banners are political tools, uniforms reflect parties, and Belter rhetoric thrives in the guild halls tied to Cotton Row.
+
+---
+
+### Lore & Role in Voxiu:
+
+- Cotton Row produces **30% of Baltun’ia’s textiles** (per economy notes) and supplies **bannerments** — literally the cloth for political flags and factions.
+- The worker-guilds here lean **Belter**, pushing hard against automaton-run textile machines that threaten to displace them.
+- Many merchants use the market as a **rally point**, hiding political agitation behind the veneer of commercial trade.
+
+---
+
+### Notable NPCs:
+
+- **[[Hedda Wickwhistle - Cotton Row Market|Hedda Wickwhistle]]**, Guildmother Weaver _([[Humans|Human]], elderly, sharp-tongued)_  
+    → Stalwart Belter voice, runs a cooperative. Wants to commission PCs to “protect” a rally disguised as a guild fair.
+- **[[Finrick Dawls - Cotton Row Market|Finrick Dawls]]**, Dyemaster _([[Gnomes|Gnome]], always half-stained blue)_  
+    → Neutral, profit-minded, sells to both factions but has debt records that link to Benton Brothers.
+- **Scout**, the boy from Session 1 → A local market runner, good tie-back NPC who can guide or warn the party here.
+
+---
+
+### Plot Hooks / Seeds:
+
+- **Labor Riot Incoming:** Docks just received a shipment of [[Vexen Overview|Vexen]]-made textile [[Automatons|automatons]] — angry Belters rally to smash them, but nobles plan to protect them.
+- **Banners of Allegiance:** Both sides want their propaganda banners woven secretly to rig who gets public rallies (PCs may smuggle or sabotage them).
+- **The Hidden Hand:** Among the stalls, a quiet pamphlet-peddler whispers about another faction (hinting [[Cogwrights Collective Overview|Cogwrights]] or [[Shadowforged]]) — but only if asked.

2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Voxiu/Cotton Row Market/Finrick Dawls - Cotton Row Market.md

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+### Details:
+
+**Name**: Finrick Dawls, Dyemaster  
+**Race**: [[Gnomes|Gnome]]  
+**Age**: 112  
+**Core personality**: Nervous, opportunistic, avoids politics; values coin above all.  
+**Location**: [[Voxiu]], [[Cotton Row Market]]
+
+---
+
+### Appearance:
+
+- **Build & Stature:** Small, stocky, perpetually hunched.
+- **Hair:** Balding with streaky white side tufts.
+- **Eyes:** Wide and darting, stained blue sclera from dye exposure.
+- **Skin:** Bluish patches from permanent dye stains.
+- **Apparel:** Splattered dye smock worn proudly.
+- **Distinguishing Features:** Always smells strongly of indigo.
+
+---
+
+### Voice & Speech:
+
+- **Tone & Pitch:** High and jittery.
+- **Mannerisms:** Laughs nervously; rubs hands together.
+
+---
+
+### Motivations & Goals:
+
+- **Primary motivation:** Stay solvent; disappear off debt books.
+- **Fears / Dangers:** Exposure by debtors ([[House of Suits Overview|House of Suits]]).
+- **Personal Quests or Secrets:** Holds important ledger ties to Benton Brothers that could implicate Frederich Von Hesten.
+
+---
+
+### Background:
+
+- **Origin:** Dyemaster Apprentice, Voxiu.
+- **History:** Struggling after automation bit into dye-industry profits.
+- **Current Occupation:** Proprietor of "Dawls’ Indigo Pots."
+
+---
+
+### Associations:
+
+- **Allegiances & Factions:** Secretly tied to Benton Brothers Banking.
+- **Allies & Friends:** A few smuggler contacts to move dye illegally.
+- **Rivals & Enemies:** [[Hedda Wickwhistle - Cotton Row Market|Hedda Wickwhistle]] despises his fence-sitting.
+
+---
+
+### Notes & Flavor
+
+- Ledger is a ticking timebomb for PCs - no matter what he will expose *Von Hesten*
+- Chain-smudges his fingers nervously when lying.

2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Voxiu/Cotton Row Market/Hedda Wickwhistle - Cotton Row Market.md

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+### Details:
+
+**Name**: Hedda Wickwhistle, Guildmother Weaver  
+**Race**: [[Humans|Human]]  
+**Age**: 68  
+**Gender**: Female  
+**Core personality**: Fiery, pragmatic, protective of her guild; sharp tongue but warm heart for workers.  
+**Location**: [[Voxiu]], [[Cotton Row Market]]
+
+---
+
+### Appearance:
+
+- **Build & Stature:** Short, wiry, hunch-backed from decades at the loom.
+- **Hair:** Steel gray, worn in a tight bun.
+- **Eyes:** Green and piercing, quick to narrow in suspicion.
+- **Skin:** Leathery and calloused with dye stains faintly embedded.
+- **Apparel:** Sturdy wool dress, patched apron with spindle-pin brooch.
+- **Distinguishing Features:** Always with a spindle tucked behind her ear.
+
+---
+
+### Voice & Speech:
+
+- **Tone & Pitch:** Raspy contralto.
+- **Mannerisms:** Wags finger for emphasis; calls people “child” regardless of age.
+
+---
+
+### Motivations & Goals:
+
+- **Primary motivation:** Protect the livelihood of Voxiu’s weavers from automation.
+- **Fears / Dangers:** Losing relevance of her guild under [[Vexen Overview|Vexen]] policies.
+- **Personal Quests or Secrets:** Keeps private correspondence with [[Belter Overview|Belter]] party organizers, secretly funding rallies.
+
+---
+
+### Background:
+
+- **Origin:** Born in Voxiu, orphaned and apprenticed at 8 to a weaving hall.
+- **History:** Rose to guildmother post after decades of labor advocacy.
+- **Current Occupation:** Head guildmother of Voxiu Textile Weavers.
+
+---
+
+### Associations:
+
+- **Allegiances & Factions:** Belter-sympathizer (Secretive).
+- **Allies & Friends:** Old weaving hall networks, Cotton Row vendors.
+- **Rivals & Enemies:** Vexen traders, [[Sea Bastion Docks|Sea Bastion]] dockmaster [[Captain Rill Dross - Sea Bastion Docks|Rill Dross]].
+- **Contacts & Networks:** Underground union captains in the Winding Gates.
+
+---
+
+### Notes & Flavor
+
+- Calls [[Automatons|automatons]] “clanks” with venom.
+- Wants the PCs to “carry banners that speak truth” against Vexens.