Gossamers Fine Threads

Gossamer Fine Threads is a middle to upper-class clothing establishment, catering to everyone who has the coin but mostly civil servants, merchants, lawyers and the like. Owned by the Mithren family for generations, the shop seems like it’s always existed in a little corner of the North Market.

At a Glance

Gossamer Fine Threads is a two-story building, roughly in the middle of the North Market, towards the city walls. The front is made up of two large glass window that flank the door, with beautiful pieces of clothing on display there. The shop always has at least a couple of customers inside, having built up a good reputation over the many years of its existence.

First Floor

The moment you open the front door you are greeted by a young, smiling human woman. As she welcomes you to the store, you see a handful of customers browsing. Well-folded, pristine clothes lie on top of simple wooden tables, while coats, capes and dresses hang from the walls. Whoever arranges the clothes’ placement has an eye for detail – they have been organized not just by what kind of clothing they are, but also by color, making the whole store seem like a collection of rainbows.

Sales Room

The Sales Room is the only room most customers ever see. Arranged in neat orderly aisles, the various pieces of clothing found here are all well-made, with the Mithren family buying their materials from local supplies. Most of the clothes are made from cotton or wool, but there are some items made of silk as well. Those are the most expensive ones, naturally, the silk having been bought from the Morana Merchant House at high prices.

Although all members of the Mithren family might pop into the Sales Room from time to time, Mirella and Sirella are the ones who properly run the place. Mirella and Sirella are twins, the oldest children of the family at twenty-five years of age. Mirella is far more charismatic, and is the one who greets the customers and helps them with their purchases. Sirella helps customers too, but her main role is actually conducting the sales. She’s great with numbers in general, and it’s been a couple of years since she took over the shop’s ledger from her father.

The Starsilk Room

Although most of the shop’s customers only ever browse the clothes in the Sales Room, lately a group of upper-class patrons have been spending their time in a smaller room right behind it. Named the Starsilk Room, this is where the Mithren family’s newest clothing experiment is showcased.

Crafted from silk and magic, Starsilk is a fabric capable of displaying beautiful patterns – like stars, the first thing the family perfected – under the presence of dim or no light. As such, the Starsilk Room is lit only by a single lantern, all the better to showcase the clothes found there.

The Starsilk Room is ran by Titus Mithren, the family’s third child – he is twenty-three years old. Titus studied to become a wizard, but after he completed his studies realized that he preferred to work at his family’s shop. To combine both things in one, he made Starsilk. Currently, he is trying to improve the process, as currently one Starsilk dress takes him about a month to create.

The Sewing Room

Behind the Starsilk Room is the Sewing Room, where the family matriarch, Sella, works. Although she prefers to work alone, the store has recently been enjoying an increase in customers, and so she’s hired a couple of tailors to assist her. Sella lives and breath for this job, and often even forgets to sleep, something which makes her children worry – she is, after all, approaching sixty.

The room is filled with loom and rolls of fabric, to the point where it looks like a mess. However, everything is in its proper place, at least for Sella – not so much for the two tailors she’s hired, Jessa and Tinion, who struggle to find anything when she’s not around.

The Second Floor

The store’s second floor is where the Mithren family’s home is. The stairs leading up to it can be found in the Sewing Room.

Taking the stairs up leads one to the family’s living room, a large square space with good, but not extravagant, furniture. The walls are decorated with various painting that the family patriarch, Julius, has purchased over the years.

The rest of the house’s rooms surround the living room. To the left of the living room, there are the children’s rooms – Titus has his own, while the sisters share one. To the right is Julius and Sella’s room.

Julius’ Study

Julius’ study is directly opposite the stairs. Filled with books – most of them focused either on accounting and tailoring or on history, Julius’ hobby – the room is where Julius takes care of the business side of things, talking with prospective collaborators and buyers and making deals. It’s also where the family’s financial papers and ledgers are kept, which means Sirella spends some time here as well.

Rumors & Secrets

But Julius’ study also holds a secret, one that nobody in the family but him knows. Julius works with the Balacazar Crime Family. A small, secret room behind the desk can be accessed via a secret button inside his study. The room is one of the Balacazar Family’s safe houses, not large enough to store even a single crate but secret enough to store precious valuables like magic items, rings, or pieces of gold ore.

Julius makes contact with the Balacazars through different people – he rarely meets somebody twice. Whoever approaches him knows a secret password, which lets them access the secret room. In return for all this, Julius doesn’t have to pay any protection money. What’s more, he is able to procure items like silk at far better prices than competitors. Finally, some of the rich clients he’s had lately, those interested in Starsilk, have ties to the Balacazars as well it’s how they found out about the store.

Type

Shop, Tailor

Parent Location

North Market