The proprietor of this store is a noble Efreeti who stands tall even for a noble, currently bargaining with an even larger Brutalis devil over a heavily magicked sword that Carissa couldn't lift with a Bull's Strength.

Serving as store assistant is an Azer - a brass-skinned dwarfoid native to Elemental Fire, whose hair and beard trail off into solid flame; almost all of Azerkind are enslaved by the Efreet, for the Azer's citadels were distant and had poor relations with one another, so that the Efreet armies could fall on their cities one by one and enslave them, without the next city becoming any the wiser.

The Azer assistant will inform Carissa that the price of the Ioun Stone proudly displayed in the store's window is -

- well, Carissa can either blow either her whole remaining budget on that one Ioun Stone.  Or she could try to meet Keltham's conditions of secrecy and known use, to trade a Wish diamond.

The proprietor of this store is a noble Efreeti who stands tall even for a noble, currently bargaining with an even larger Brutalis devil over a heavily magicked sword that Carissa couldn't lift with a Bull's Strength.

Serving as store assistant is an Azer - a brass-skinned dwarfoid native to Elemental Fire, whose hair and beard trail off into solid flame; almost all of Azerkind are enslaved by the Efreet, for the Azer's citadels were distant and had poor relations with one another, so that the Efreet armies could fall on their cities one by one and enslave them, without the next city becoming any the wiser.

The Azer assistant will inform Carissa that the price of the Ioun Stone proudly displayed in the store's window is -

- well, Carissa can either blow her whole remaining budget on that one Ioun Stone.  Or she could try to meet Keltham's conditions of secrecy and known use, to trade a Wish diamond.

The proprietor of this store is a noble Efreeti who stands tall even for a noble, currently bargaining with an even larger Brutalis devil over a heavily magicked sword that Carissa couldn't lift with a Bull's Strength.

Serving as store assistant is an Azer - a brass-skinned dwarfoid native to Elemental Fire, whose hair and beard trail off into solid flame.  Almost all of Azerkind are enslaved by the Efreet, for the Azer's citadels were distant and had poor relations with one another, so that the Efreet armies could fall on their cities one by one and enslave them, without the next city becoming any the wiser.

The Azer assistant will inform Carissa that the price of the Ioun Stone proudly displayed in the store's window is -

- well, Carissa can either blow her whole remaining budget on that one Ioun Stone.  Or she could try to meet Keltham's conditions of secrecy and known use, to trade a Wish diamond.