Aja Pelima, Magical Items Bought and Sold
Aja Pelima, Magical Items Bought and Sold: Aja's magic shop, otherwise known as "Mad Aja's Magic for Fools & Simpletons," is a recent addition to the Grand Bazaar. Aja seems to be an ajami, a mage from the north, and he set up shop just two months ago. His items are received with suspicion, if at all.
He has flaming red hair and prefers extremely bright colors in his dress. His favorite clothing is a bright red silk robe with gold fireballs and silver lightning bolts covering it. Mad Aja is a popular topic among the regulars at the Grand Bazaar. Some feel he is a really blatant member of the Brotherhood of the True Flame, and that he will be picked up by the Grand Caliph's men before long. Others believe him to be a powerful genie here on some sort of spying mission. Proponents of this theory claim that his true nature cannot be detected by magic. They also claim to have seen him wandering the streets at odd hours, as if he were searching for something. The majority see him as a colorful barbarian madman, possibly a dangerous one, but certainly entertaining.
He is simply a slightly warped, high-pressure salesmen. If business is slow, he stands in front of his small shop and attempts to entice customers into his shop. This is not strange, but his manner is. He does anything necessary to attract attention. More than once, wizards and priests have hurried to the Grand Bazaar to put out a fire, only to find that Aja had been using his pyrotechnics spell to amuse customers again.
Aja thinks nothing of using a fireball to gain attention, or levitating a prospective customer, and then floating upside down to talk to them face to face. He usually starts his pitch with "Magic can do anything, and you look like the type of man that needs to be able to do anything." The pitch gets more outrageous from there.
Aja seems to have a unique ability: he never bothers people who do not have the wealth to pay for his items. This means he has upset more than a few rich nobles and merchants, refusing to deal with those who only appear wealthy, while recognizing poorly-dressed nobles as people of great means. Aja has made more than a few sales by recognizing the actual buying power of a customer and pitching exactly the right item for sale.
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