Bethford

Bethford is located on a sheltered bay of The Searching Sea. The region is a mix of deciduous and evergreen trees in rolling hills. The temperature is usually cool to mild with a brisk wind coming off the ocean.
The city has an industrial feel too it - the massive Bethford Shipyards dominate the landscape. Scaffolding envelopes the next generation of solar-, air- and water-born ships. Workers swarm over the constructions like ants. Raw materials and finished parts converge here for their final destination. Large cranes swing components into place. The ring of hammers, rasp of saws and huff of bellows fill the air. Trails of smoke and steam rise from industrial forges and quenching pools.
Two major rings of massive curtain walls and massive stone towers surround the city and house the garrison. Bethmont Castle is perched on a predominant central hill. A second smaller castle with defenses both inward and outward ring the cities teleportation circle.
Sprawling out into the sea is the largest and busiest dock works in all of Etolar.
Outside the city are three major solar- and air- fields and half a dozen villages.
Civil Buildings

• Bethmont Castle
• The Athenaeum at Bethford
• The Iron Garrison
• Bethford docks
• "Embassy Row" home to 50+ embassies

Religious Buildings / Temples /Shrines

• Precious Abbey - home to an order of good-aligned of half-dragons and a shrine to Bahamut
• Shrine to Moradin
• Temple to Garl Glittergold
• Temples to manyh of the new gods

Industry

• Bethford Shipyards
• Home of CS (Conglomerate Solar)

Higher Learning

• Bethford University