SANJIESAN LORE / Institution scenes
Who owns the stall, and who can close the market?
A faction can become vague when its crest seems to give every member power over every event. In an original market scene, separate the person who owns a stall from whoever issues a trading permission or closes the square. These small distinctions can create useful choices without adding pages of institutional history.
Put one decision in the scene
Write a fictional situation in which a seller wants to open while the square is being closed. List who can refuse, who can object and who physically carries out the instruction, according to your draft. World Anvil offers templates for organisations and locations; the exercise here is to connect those records through one action. Do not fill every role with the same faction merely because it already has a name and a finished emblem.
Give each refusal a reason
Describe the narrow interest behind each response: a stallholder wants access to goods, a market clerk follows a stated notice, and a guard has a particular instruction. Keep these as invented institutional choices rather than claims about real law or historical markets. Inspect what happens when the clerk and guard disagree. A scene becomes more specific when the disagreement has a route to a decision instead of being settled by the most impressive uniform.
Carry the result to the next scene
Record who made the decision, who accepted it and what remains disputed. Reuse those distinctions when the same market appears later, or write the event that changes them. Keep a proposed authority separate from established canon when working in a shared setting. The result can be a short scene note with clear relationships, not an exhaustive legal code. It should explain this encounter well enough that another writer does not accidentally give the stallholder powers the draft never established.