The Smuggler

The black market: the only NPC that buys your gear, paying CBT for loot you will never use — your primary sell-to-NPC outlet.

Who is the Smuggler?

The Smuggler — also called the Fence — is a black-market dealer who runs the game's pawnshop. He is the only NPC who will buy your gear, paying in CBT, the game's currency. Whatever loot you pull from a fight and will never equip, you offload to him for instant coin. He is the everyday faucet-and-sink touchpoint of the economy: the place loot turns back into spendable CBT.

Sell-to-NPC outlet

Your default place to dump unwanted loot — no buyer to find, the Smuggler always takes it.

Paid in CBT

Every sale pays the game currency CBT directly, priced from the item or resource value.

Seeded treasury

He runs on a system wallet stocked with CBT, so there is always liquidity to buy from you.

The Smuggler is the only NPC that buys gear at all. Other vendors sell to you; only the black market buys equipment back.

How He Prices Gear

When you sell a piece of gear, the Smuggler appraises it by its component value — the worth of the materials and components the item is built from — and pays you a fixed share of that in CBT.

30%

Of component value

He pays 30% of the gear’s full material worth — selling recovers roughly a third of what it took to build.

0.05

CBT price floor

No gear sale ever pays less than 0.05 CBT, so even scrap is worth a coin.

5000

CBT price ceiling

A guardrail caps any single item at 5000 CBT, no matter how rich its components are.

Because the rate is 30% of component value, selling gear is a deliberate loss — you trade a third of the build cost back for instant CBT and shelf space. That is the price of convenience.

Gems & Styles on Sold Gear

Selling an item is not pure destruction — the Smuggler breaks it down for parts, and the sockets, gems and crafting identity baked into it each have a chance to come back to you.

Salvage yield 70%

When he breaks an item down, 70% of its components are recovered — a higher yield than the normal player salvage path.

Gem survival 50%

Each socketed gem in the sold item has a 50% chance to survive and be returned, rather than being lost with the item.

Style extraction 27%

There is a 27% chance to extract the item's crafting style or pattern when it is processed, tying back into the Styles & Patterns system.

Because gem and style recovery are only a chance, salvaging valuable gear yourself can be the better play — you keep what matters instead of gambling it on a 50% / 27% roll.

Selling Raw Resources

The Smuggler also buys raw resources — herbs, food ingredients, ore, hides and the like — and pays a higher rate for them than for gear, because raw materials relist cleanly with no salvage loss.

Raw rate 40%

Raw resources sell at 40% of value — higher than the 30% gear rate, because raw mats relist 1:1 on the market with no components lost to a breakdown.

No finished consumables

He does not buy finished potions or cooked dishes — only raw RESOURCE materials and gear. The guardrail is anti-laundering: you can't dump crafted consumables on him.

Per-sale cap

Each resource sale is capped at 5000 CBT

The same 5000 CBT ceiling applies per resource sale, keeping any single dump from draining the treasury.

Fence vs Salvage vs Market

Three ways to turn loot into value, each with a different trade-off. Pick by what the item is and how much effort you want to spend.

Option	Best for	Trade-off
Fence to the Smuggler	Loot you'll never use — bulk gear and resources you want gone now.	Instant CBT, zero effort, but only 30% of component value and gems/styles are a gamble.
Salvage yourself	Valuable gear with gems or a crafting style you want to keep.	Reliable 70% component recovery and you keep what matters, but no instant CBT.
List on the resource DEX	Raw resources you'd rather price yourself than take a flat 40%.	You set the price and can beat the Smuggler, but you wait for a buyer.

Rule of thumb: fence the junk, salvage the keepers, and take stacks of raw mats to the player-to-player DEX when you want to set your own price instead of the Smuggler's flat 40%.

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