Azeroth’s black market is a sprawling beast, segmented into rivalling subgroups and brutally backstabby politics despite claiming to be above such things. The goblin cartels have their corner of the market, of course, biting and scratching each other apart but ganging up on outsiders encroaching on their turf in uncharacteristic solidarity. The pandaren have their own arrangements with a network of clients upheld by respect and sometimes shocking brutality. Disaffected former members of the Reliquary and Explorer’s League alike peddle relics and objects of ancient power, frustrated by the steamwheedle preservation society trying to be the big dog in selling historical treasures to collectors. Unsurprisingly, the smuggling rings providing suramar with arcwine apply their hard-earned skills to similar pursuits on a global scale these days, based out of safehouses in the city’s many canals.
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