Skimmer’s Row is one of Arkrist’s more openly disreputable commercial areas. Its businesses include drinking houses, small galleries, brokers, and establishments willing to deal in goods or information whose provenance would attract uncomfortable questions elsewhere in the city. Fences and other intermediaries in Arkrist’s black market have long used the Row because legitimate and illicit commerce overlap there easily.
The area became important during the 8793 SE disappearances investigated by the Drakefire Phalanx. Several missing fences had last been seen in Skimmer’s Row, and the investigation led through Ennala’s Gallery and the Last Chance Tavern. Those discoveries exposed a local cell of The Voiceless operating beneath the ordinary criminal activity of the district.