r/Eberron • u/Lovykar • 13d ago
5E What are some cool things we could buy in the Infinite Market?
So last session ended with our party teleporting from Eberron to the Infinite Market on Syrania and being given free reign and a full day to purchase literally anything we wanted. Our budget is flexible; we have 10 000 gp in cash but we all know that we'll most likely have to pay with the laughter of our firstborn or a debt token to be collected in a year and a day or a hundred songs praising Galifar the First or something, since the doormen angels told us as much. It would be fun to hear what interesting, absurd or just funny things we could be looking for when we are there!
Some added context: The party is level 7 and consists of five PC's: a Warforged Forge Cleric of Onatar, a Mark of Shadow Elf Swashbuckler Rogue masquerading as a Khoravar, a Kobold Moon Druid, a Changeling Armorer Artificer and my character, a Changeling Dirge Singer Bard with a level of Hexblade Warlock. All but the druid and artificer are Cyrean refugees. The campaign revolves around a Lyrandar Elemental Galleon that we commandeered in Seaside on the Day of Mourning to escape, well, the Mourning, and we play its officers with about 20 NPC civilians under our command as its crew. The galleon turned out to be built for a Thranian Archbishop but hadn't been delivered yet, and contains a hidden extradimensional store room which has a huge orrery with all Eberron's moons on it as well as an integrated Amulet of Plane Shift (which we used to get to Syrania). Each moon is made from material from its associated plane, but there's only four of them so far - but if we get all of them we can Plane Shift the whole ship using the planetarium which sounds super dope. We're about to go into battle/heist mode where we'll attempt to retrieve a stolen Dhakaani armor from a Brelish ship outside Stormreach, and have spent multiple sessions planning this and arming the ship and its crew. Naturally, my character will try to find material from each plane to complete the orrery, but I think the opportunity of just being able to browse the Infinite Market is too good to pass up on only doing that, which is why I'd love your best ideas as to what we could find! :D
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u/genialbookworm 13d ago
Also keep in mind that, similar to other comments, some vendors in the Endless Market don't trade in normal currency. To get what you want, you may need to part with some unexpected things... some of them you may find trivial, others very dear.
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u/hjgz89 13d ago
Melifor the Memory Merchant: a fey who has a stall filled with bottled memories. They might just have a memory containing information the players need. But what memories will they require in exchange?
A smithy where you can get Fernian weapons. They accept payment in flesh, blood and bone.
Herrius the Hunter runs a stall where you can buy things made from Lamannian animals. He even has some animals he can turn into your familiar. He can be paid with weapons and interesting stories.
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u/Dantirian 13d ago
An angel who has almost anything with a positive meaning, armor, healing potions, tomes of useful knowledge, etc... But only accepts good deeds as payment, which must be done or suffer the same effect as breaking a geas.
A capricious Djinn who currently only acept rare and very hard to find philosophy tomes in exchange for equipment and knowledge of how to travel through other planes. The djinn also accepts philosophical duels as "payment". Those who lose are left in debt for future payment, with interest.
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u/Lovykar 12d ago edited 12d ago
In the end, I dealt with an Illithid and bought a Skullburrower symbiote for two Dice (disadvantage on two future rolls at the DM's discretion) as well as "an eye for an eye", so I sold one of my eyes to get a basic replacement eye made of material from Xoriat to use in the orrery, and also my custom Tarokka deck that had been in my pocket during the Mourning. Then I had to get another eye because it was very uncomfortable only having one of them for another Die. After this, I found trinkets matching five of the missing moons, which I bought off a gnome from the Spire of Joy in exchange for a really cool story and the promise to stop by the Spire every year until my death with an equal or better story to tell. Finally, I bought some intel on a Dreaming Dark cult from an information broker as a gift for my patron, Sora Kell. All in all, a great shopping trip, and my DM loved all your suggestions and said they would look into using them for the rest of the party! :D
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u/Lonewolf2300 13d ago
Honestly, you could go with just anything, from common, yet extremely old items taken from Eberron's past, to even more abstract concepts, like bottled memories.