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Wandering Merchants

A "good luck" encounter, not a risk one — pure upside, no combat, nothing to lose by stopping to look. Hover any portrait to zoom in, click one to read its story.

A hunt that turns up a stall costs you nothing: the 5 Energy it spent is refunded the moment the merchant appears, in the bot and in the browser.

Wandering Merchants compete with Grasplings for the same special-encounter slot during a hunt — only one of the two can appear per hunt action, and most of the time neither does. Merchants are the rarer of the two on purpose: their stock is never sold anywhere else in Eldervast, priced only in Fragments or Gems, never gold — Gems buy convenience, never exclusive access, since Fragments alone can always afford the same item.

Wandering Peddler

Common · 50% of encounters

Gold

Traveling Trader

Uncommon · 30% of encounters

Fragments only

Black Market Broker

Rare · 13% of encounters

Fragments or Gems

Relic Hunter

Epic · 5% of encounters

Fragments or Gems

The Nameless Collector

Legendary · 2% of encounters

Fragments or Gems

Exclusive weapons by region

Every Traveling Trader, Black Market Broker, and Relic Hunter offers a weapon matched to your own class — a Mage only ever sees a Mage weapon, a Warrior only ever sees a Warrior weapon, never someone else's kind. Only the rarity rolled and the price differ by tier.

Unique relics by region

The Nameless Collector's stock — one fixed-affix Unique/Named item per region, the same pool the Unique Market draws from. Requires having completed that region's Epic-tier progression quest first.