First appearance: S2E9 — Bees — Rosa v Veronica · watch it on YouTube
The bazaar is a desert marketplace somewhere in the Void, owned by the Grandmaster and pressed into service as a Deathmatch arena in S2E9 — Bees — Rosa v Veronica. It is a maze of carts, tarps and tall buildings under too many suns, with sand in the air and camel dung on the wind. It is a fine place to shop and a treacherous place to try parkour.
Description
The bazaar is a market that the Grandmaster acquired, and it still looks like one. Covered carts and stalls roofed with canvas tarps crowd its lanes. Buildings rise around them with roofs anywhere from fifteen to thirty feet high, so there is plenty to climb and plenty to fall off. A stairwell offers shelter from the sand.
Being there means heat. Hot air and grit pour through the moment a portal opens, and several suns race across the sky, moving fast enough to be noticed. The breeze carries the smell of camel dung. The Grandmaster watches from her own shaded abode in the stands.
History
The bazaar became an arena when The Arbiter tore open a portal and let the desert air drift into the Void’s grandstands. “I thought we’d take a trip to the bazaar,” he announced, and sent Rosa and Veronica in to fight.
The market’s tarps soon claimed a victim. One of the champions parkoured toward the box in the arena and tried to leap from a wagon across a canvas tarp. She didn’t make it. In a classic bazaar moment (“Just Aladdin a little bit”), she ripped straight through the canvas and dropped to the ground below. She was unhurt, but she had already used her moment casting a spell, so she had no time left to run. She ended up sitting on her ass in the middle of the market. The Grandmaster and Veronica marked the moment together:
Grandmaster: “She’s beauty. She’s grace.” Veronica: “She falls right onto her face.”
Notable Figures
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: the bazaar’s owner, who watched the fight from her shaded abode in the stands.
- The Arbiter: opened the portal and introduced the bazaar as the arena.
- Rosa: one of the two champions who fought there.
- Veronica: the other champion, and the one who finished the Grandmaster’s rhyme.