The popular name given to the area just to the south of Huwdone House which forms the heart of Jalkin's commercial centre - Millik is a demon in Garran mythology associated with greed. Originally parkland, the area was developed in the 1100's in the style then fashionable, using cream or beige coloured stone and making a lot of use of ornamental arches and colonnades. In general the atmosphere is reasonably refined and peaceful (at least for Jalkin), rarely anything other than busy but certainly less chaotic than areas like Vellers Square. Though curfewed to mounted transport during the day this is less heavy on the ground anyway, being off the main trade routes, and is seen as a place a person can walk safely and leisurely. Millik's Triangle is almost free of residential dwellings, dominated mainly by the grand halls where the various trade associations meet - it shares a roughly equal number of these with Lintel Square in Forgar. The most famous and largest is the Victualling Society Meeting Hall on Rushes Street, a five story palace, its roof curved in a huge, copper-covered arch. An umbrella organisation trying to represent all those involved in production and sale of food and drink, the Victualling Society is generally riven with factions and its once-a-month lunches have been known to degenerate into violence. The League of Gentlemen, the equally powerful society of herbalists and other healers, have their only slightly humbler headquarters nearby, in a 1100's mansion on Minsk Avenue. The League's hall, frequently hired out in evenings for balls etc., is dominated by a huge, semi-subterranean hall, which is reached via a gallery and a grand double staircase. The decor is somewhat depressing, however; unspectacular tapestries of herbs line the walls and the huge floor mosaic depicts a man being consumed by demons. The League eschews a conventional timepiece in favour of a large 'clock' which allegedly tells time via ballbearings rolling down ramps. Other meeting halls include those of the Coopers Society and the Scribermen, the latter representing those in the book trade. Two property and commodity exchange buildings are in Millik's Triangle, where much of the middle-ranking business deals in the Triple Cities are begun or formally concluded. Founded within three years of each other 1182-5, they are the Pemby Exchange Building on Rushes Street and the Eight Roads Exchange on the corner of Leisan Road and . Decorated with a subtle huge brass money bag on its front, the Pemby (named after the then Chairman of Jal Council) is a single-storied great hall, noisy and anarchic where virtually anything can be bought and sold, from shares in a company to cooking apples; above all it is a place for exchanging information, a public spot where rich and poor mingle together. It also has the reputation for being a fertile ground for swindles and a men-only club, though the Council is trying to curb at least the first of these. The Eight Roads Exchange, precise origin of name debatable, is rather more refined . Just north of the triangle are mainly knock-ons of Huwdone House, government store houses, servants houses, political dens etc.; a political building inside the triangle itself is Goslan Hall on Fishguard Square. A Council building used for various things, chiefly as a meeting hall for Jalkin's praetors, Goslan Hall is an imposing edifice, marked by the unusual feature of having murals painted on the outside (chiefly pictures of Wise Old Men in Council) and a curious pair of spiral pillars stretching up on either side of its roof.
"The Pemby Exchange stands in Jalkin's commercial heartland, which lies west off Dorlaf Avenue and due south of Huwdone House. The area is commonly referred to as Milliks Triangle, though this isn't the official name (Millik is a god of avarice in Garran mythology); for that matter, it doesn't even form a triangle. Each of the Cities has their own distinctive style. Jalkin regards itself as a city of the mind, a place of leadership, of culture, of the gratification of aesthetic sensibilities. Naturally the other two Cities claim it to be a haven for bossy, workshy dilettantes. Its industrial epicentre regards actually producing anything as far beneath it and leave this to unsophisticated Forgar. Milliks Triangle is instead filled with trade halls, assembly rooms and offices, built in brash and beautiful styles with maximum extravagance. The Pemby Exchange is a typical specimen. A vast single room, it is decorated by murals illustrating tales from Garran mythology, taking in woodland scenes, Ice Giants stalking through the snow and gods battling over sulphur pits. Painted in the 1260's, the murals are reckoned to be one of the best local examples of sensory overload art. The bold policy of the Exchange is that anything can be bought and sold inside its walls. A more cautious footnote removed items such as humans, hallucinogenic herbs and contraband from the list, but it still enjoys an impressively broad license. It was originally established as a forum for companies and shares to change ownership, which remains its chief function. At the centre of the room suave agents were huddled together in intricate negotiations with prospective buyers. The owners of the assorted inns, stables, workshops or warehouses which were being opened up to general purchase sometimes sat behind their agents, fussing and barking conditions. Here and there brash auctioneers unloaded the premises and stocks of bankrupt businesses, noisy warnings to the perils of a bad deal. Closer to the doors, though, the Pemby Exchange resembled a more conventional market place, with lines of tables acting as improvised stalls. Many were offering high quality goods, such as bundles of silk or intricate gold bracelets, but there were also others like the woman selling bags of muddy potatoes and doing a surprisingly brisk trade."
(from A Shining Light)