I am in the proccess of starting my second chapter of my book. I need a few influences or basic ideas from our society and previous societies of how trade worked and ways of trading.
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Shops
markets
trading stores
roving merchants
getting other people to obtain them for him (quests, etc)
keeping a garden or menangerie in order to harvest the supplies himself
There are of course variations on "shop", anything from a bustling shopping mall style thing to small secretive back alley shops. Same goes for the others.
They could trade anything that has value - money, skills, spells, items, equipment,etc...
Thanks for the reply. I don't want it sound too much like Diagon Alley in Harry Potter.
Also, what ways could they trade e.g. by using coins, spells?