Plaza of Dark Delights

Nehwon Gazetteer | City of Lankhmar | Places of Lankhmar

Stories:
The Price of Pain-Ease
Bazaar of the Bizarre
Swords of Lankhmar[?]

All business in the Plaza of Dark Delights is done at night under cover of dark and with no more than a whisper. Is a market for Lankhmar’s more illicit goods. At one end of the Plaza is the Fountain of Dark Abundance and the other the Shrine of the Black Virgin.  The Plaza lies in the south of Lankhmar. It is seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate.

In the Plaza of Dark Delights, which lies seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate and extends from the Fountain of Dark Abundance to the Shrine of the Black Virgin, the shop-lights glinted upward no more brightly than the stars glinted down. For there the vendors of drugs and the peddlers of curiosa and the hawkers of assignations light their stalls and crouching places with foxfire, glowworms, and fire-pots with tiny single windows, and they conduct their business almost as silently as the stars conduct theirs.

There are plenty of raucous spots a-glare with torches in nocturnal Lankhmar, but by immemorial tradition soft whispers and a pleasant dimness are the rule in the Plaza of Dark Delights. Philosophers often go there solely to meditate, students to dream, and fanatic-eyed theologians to spin like spiders abstruse new theories of the Devil and of the other dark forces ruling the universe. And if any of these find a little illicit fun by the way, their theories and dreams and theologies and demonologies are undoubtedly the better for it.

- from Bazaar of the Bizarre.