Trading

Every Adventure City — Minos, Othamas, Ban Jal, and Venkapor — has its own network of NPC shops where you can buy and sell goods using Iron Notes, each stocked according to what that city actually needs and actually makes. Shops are organized by tier: Essential shops (like the General Store and Constable) exist in every city, Secondary shops are common but not universal, Advanced shops are specialized and only found in a few places, and Bespoke shops are unique to a single city’s character. Not every shop carries every item, and not every city buys what it sells — check a shop’s stock before assuming it’ll take what you’re carrying.

Prices aren’t uniform across the world. Each city has its own economic identity shaped by its geography and history — a struggling seaport, a wealthy crafting hub, a rural farming settlement, a busy trading post — and that identity is reflected in what’s cheap, what’s expensive, and what’s simply unavailable locally. A good that’s common and cheap in one city may be scarce or pricey in another.

Buying and selling both happen through the same shop interface: browse a shop’s stock to purchase goods with Iron Notes, or sell items you’re carrying for notes at that shop’s buy price. Prices are fixed per shop rather than haggled, though they can shift over time as the server’s economy evolves.

Because prices vary by city, there’s real value in paying attention to where things are cheap and where they’re worth more — but figuring out exactly which goods are worth hauling between which cities, and how much profit they carry, is something you’ll need to discover yourself through exploration and trade. No route maps here.

Your reputation follows you into every deal, too — a shop’s buying price (what you pay to purchase) shifts with your own Honor, a little cheaper the more honorable you are, a little steeper the less. Selling never changes; only what you pay to buy does.

Mob head drops remain the most reliable way to earn your first Iron Notes — sell them to a city’s Constable — before you have capital to start trading in earnest, and it’s a small boost to your Honor besides.