Windarium
A charming shop located on a street packed with merchants and artisans, the Windarium offers clockwork devices, toys, and curiosities for all occasions, and is best known for its vast selection of gears, screws, fittings, and other precision parts useful to artisans and amateurs alike. A brilliant half-orc graduate of the Clockwork Cathedral named Symo of Gyr founded the shop fifteen years ago, and its organization and mix of products still reflects his particular genius. But genius alone does not dictate success in Absalom’s mercurial retail environment, and it wasn’t until Symo met Mirtion that the Windarium truly came into its own. Mirtion knew almost nothing about clockworks, but his experience running a succession of successful shops made him an able manager just in time to ride a wave of public interest in clockworks. Symo and Mirtion fell in love, and were married in 4710 AR. Five years ago, First Gear Chun Hye-Seung drafted Symo into a prominent role as second gear—her personal advisorassigning him to apply his expertise to several secret special engineering projects at Azlanti Keep. It was all going so well.
In the military shake-up following the Black Echelon Uprising of 4717, Symo found himself promoted to First Gear and expected to run Azlanti Keep’s siege defenses as well as accelerating Chun’s important special projects. Symo often works every waking hour, and now spends most of his nights in his private military quarters in the keep rather than in the cozy apartment he shares with Mirtion above the Windarium. Mirtion, now a one-man-show running a store he is starting to view as Symo’s passion rather than his own, has taken his careful eye off the business. As the Windarium falters, Mirtion throws himself into his own greatest passion—badgers.
Mirtion keeps five badger pets in the apartment, and since Symo is seldom around to insist that they remain up there, the creatures now have free rein of the entire building. The Windarium is still the best clockworks shop in the district, but many of its regular customers now joke that it is at least as much a pet store, and most are beginning to source their parts elsewhere.
In the military shake-up following the Black Echelon Uprising of 4717, Symo found himself promoted to First Gear and expected to run Azlanti Keep’s siege defenses as well as accelerating Chun’s important special projects. Symo often works every waking hour, and now spends most of his nights in his private military quarters in the keep rather than in the cozy apartment he shares with Mirtion above the Windarium. Mirtion, now a one-man-show running a store he is starting to view as Symo’s passion rather than his own, has taken his careful eye off the business. As the Windarium falters, Mirtion throws himself into his own greatest passion—badgers.
Mirtion keeps five badger pets in the apartment, and since Symo is seldom around to insist that they remain up there, the creatures now have free rein of the entire building. The Windarium is still the best clockworks shop in the district, but many of its regular customers now joke that it is at least as much a pet store, and most are beginning to source their parts elsewhere.
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