The Sand Court does not operate a black market. There is no stall. There is no inventory. If someone told you otherwise, they were mistaken, and you should stop asking around. What follows is a catalog of items that do not exist, available through channels that have not been established, sold by people whose names you do not know. Gil only. No credit. No refunds. No one to complain to.
Stock rotates. Prices are final. If an item is listed as one of a kind, it is one of a kind. Do not ask if more are coming.
A plain copper ring engraved with suppression glyphs so fine they look like decoration. Worn, it dampens the user's aetheric signature to near-undetectable levels. Favored by deserters, wanted mages, and anyone who would rather not show up on a Conjurers' Guild sweep, a Wood Wailer patrol, or worse. The Sand Court does not ask why you need it. The Sand Court does not want to know.
Six charges, each packed with ceruleum reduced past the point any imperial safety officer would allow. The Court's demolitions contact rates a single charge sufficient to level a city block outright... foundations, upper floors, and anyone who hadn't the sense to be elsewhere. Sold only as a full set of six. The Court will not ask what use requires more than one at a time, and handling instructions are not included.
A full sack of plumage taken from the Hanuhanu, the bird-folk who keep to the high canopy of Kozama'uka, enough to adorn a full suit of armor in the old style, the kind the Landsguard wear into battle, or to fashion smaller ornaments for those who prefer their sanctity worn close to the skin. Each feather still carries a trace of whatever the Hanuhanu weave into them during the rites of their making, which is precisely why the devout and the merely wealthy alike will empty their coffers for a single quill, let alone a sackful. The Hanuhanu do not sell these. The Court did not say how they were acquired.
A single coin, warm to the touch and worn smooth at the edges, once set into the sculpted hands of the statue beneath Highbridge, the settlement in Wellwick Wood. It surfaced again in the ruins scholars call the Invisible City, exposed in Eastern Thanalan by the Seventh Umbral Calamity, ruins some now believe to be no city at all, but the tomb of a Belah'dian sultan. A Rotting Noble and its attendant corpse had carried the coin off long before the Court's operation recovered it, in its absence, Highbridge's span had begun to crumble, though the scholars are careful to note the bridge was never truly weakened by the coin's absence, only by the rites the thieves worked upon it while it sat in their keeping. Thal's blessing still moves through the metal, faint but unmistakably alive. Rather than see it enshrined and worshipped anew, the scholars judged it wiser sold off quietly.
A single shard of pure ceruleum, cooled and crystallized past the point Garlean engineers consider safe to store outside a containment vault. It weighs some eleven ponze by Eorzean reckoning, no larger than a clenched double fist, yet the aether bound within it is old and dense enough that a capable arcanist could channel it into magitek machinery of considerable scale: excavation engines, siege constructs, or ordnance the Empire would rather Eorzea never learn to build for itself. Left uncontained, that same density makes it a hazard few would willingly transport. The Court transports it anyway.
Woven at Miplu's Mate Garden from alpaca wool carried down out of Urqopacha, the mountain reaches of Yok Tural, with no substitute fibers and no shortcuts taken in the dyeing. The pattern is dense enough to serve as a proper wall hanging or a floor piece, depending on the buyer's taste, and the wool holds its color the way only true highland stock does. Imports of this quality rarely make it as far as the Sand Court's stalls before a private collector claims them first, this one slipped through.
Yucca Al'Sahra and Bastian Caldeth
// The Sand Court ✦ Ul'dah, ThanalanThe Unmarked Stall is a Sand Court operation. It appears at select markets, pop-up events, and locations the Court decides not to publicize in advance. It does not have a permanent address. It does not take advance orders. It does not have a waiting list.
Yucca Al'Sahra runs the stall when it is open. She sources the inventory, sets the prices, and determines what goes on the board on any given night. She does not negotiate. She does not do favors. She has heard every story you are thinking of telling her and is not moved by any of them.
Bastian Caldeth is present when he needs to be. If you see him at the stall and not Yucca, the answer to whatever you were about to ask is no.
The Sand Court is a revolutionary outfit operating out of Thanalan. The stall is one of several ways it funds the work. You do not need to know what the work is.