The Arcadian Toy Shop

The Arcadian Toy Shop is marked with beautiful chimes and a bright red door inside the Ikesian Galleria in Arcadia. The store is run by Perdix and is popular with Atavian children.

Wares

Golden music scroll - 25gp

This long, thin strip of stiff parchment has been dyed a rich gold colour. Circular holes are punched through the scroll at intervals.

Porcelain Atavian boy doll - 100gp

Crafted from delicate porcelain and painted with vibrant, lifelike colours, this small Atavian boy doll is handsome to behold. His mouth is half-open in laughter, his blue eyes twinkling with mirth. In contrast to the dark curls that frame his face cherubically, the doll is fair-skinned, with a smattering of freckles painted over the bridge of his nose. His crafter must have spent hours on the detail on his hands alone. Perhaps the most beautiful part of this doll is his set of wings of shimmering blue and violet, nearly as tall as he, made of real feathers. They look as if they could burst into flight at any moment. He wears a forest-green silk tunic over dark blue trousers.

Porcelain Atavian girl doll - 100gp

Crafted from delicate porcelain and painted with vibrant, lifelike colours, this small Atavian girl doll is lovely to behold. Her long-lashed eyes have dazzling blue crystals for irises, and her plump cheeks are flushed with the rosy pink of childhood. Her nose is piquant and pert, and dark locks curl around her face, the hair surprisingly soft and realistic to the touch. Her hands are detailed down to the nails and palm-lines. Perhaps the most beautiful part of this doll is her set of wings of shimmering green and white, nearly as tall as she, made of real feathers. They look as if they could burst into flight at any moment. She wears a miniature frock made of red velvet, with frothy white lace bloomers beneath.

Toy kite - 500gp

A slender and slightly flexible wooden frame holds cloth of an undefinable colour -- it has been woven from so many different colours of thread that it seems to be all of these colours at once. Its two tails each hold glass beads that clink against one another in flight. A string leads down to a spool designed for small hands to hold. Written instructions dangle from the spool on a small piece of paper.

Crimson music scroll - 25gp

This long, thin strip of stiff parchment has been dyed a rich crimson colour. Circular holes are punched through the scroll at intervals.

Indigo music scroll - 25gp

This long, thin strip of stiff parchment has been dyed a rich indigop colour. Circular holes are punched through the scroll at intervals.

Set of silver and crystal windchimes - 750gp

From a ring no bigger than a child's fist dangle a dozen silver chains. Each chain is ornate, its links not simple rings but sculpted double loops that somehow fail to tangle in one another. At evenly varied heights hang blue and white crystals that ring out softly when they touch one another, and tiny silver bells hang above them on each chain to add tinkling undertones. The longest chain is significantly less than a meter long, ensuring that even a child can play these chimes without dragging them on the ground.

Lacquered wooden music box - 800gp

Its maplewood exterior, painted with a coat of glossy lacquer, conceals the intricate clockwork mechanisms within this small music box. A metal crank pokes out of one side, waiting to be turned to wind the mechanisms. Beneath the hinged lid, a lovely miniature wooden Atavian figure is poised on its toes inside the box. There is a small slot where a small music scroll with punched-in holes can be fed over and around a barely-visible spool to produce a tune by running over a thin metal comb inside, hooked to other mechanisms. A slip of paper glued to the inside cover instructs one to first put a specially-made music scroll in the box, then to TURN the crank on the BOX.