<div class="floatleft">(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2004/293/6/f/Chain_Girl_by_Ferres.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Royal Market is the largest of its kind on the entire planet.  Filled with the smells of cooking meats, the perfumes of exotic flowers and planets, and the mewls and growls of animals and slaves alike, the marketplace contains goods of all kinds for all.  Here, slaves move from stall to stall to make deliveries, carry the packages of their Mistresses, or wait chained to a block waiting to be sold.  The entire event is as lavish as a never-ending party, with the market never closing except for the Holy Days.<br/><br/>The numerous stalls contain colors of every kind, with common and tribal languages commonly spoken.  Troops march and maintain order, catching thieves and often punishing them immediately.  The marketplace leads right up to the Nei's Valshath (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=135878.0) to the west and the Streeatul (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=135879.0) to the east.  To the north is the residential sector, and to the south, the spaceport and embassies.</span>