I have no idea how I missed this earlier. Plainly put, it's amazing and a testament to hard work, discipline, and the willingness to go back and rework earlier issues.

You wrote that you're mainly used to doing characters and not scenes, I've gotta say that that does not show here. You've created a vibrant little marketplace with plenty of attention to detail everywhere. I could totally see this on one the cover of one of the fantasy books from my youth.