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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:
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+Bustling textile and dye district ([[Belter Overview|Belter]]-leaning), center of [[Voxiu]]’s fabric trade and public working-class life.
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+### Description:
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+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.
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+### Lore & Role in Voxiu:
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+- 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.
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+### Notable NPCs:
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+- **[[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.
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+### Plot Hooks / Seeds:
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+- **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.