Newtport

Newtport is Aeridin's main port city, located on the southeast coast. It is by far and away the richest city, hosting the nation’s merchant families who are the closest thing to an aristocracy that nation knows. 
The city is full of canals laid out in a nicely organized grid pattern. The folk here use boats to get around just as much as their own two feet. 
The richest of the merchants live the farthest north, their neighborhoods behind locked canal gates. The absolute wealthiest divert parts of the canal to their own homes, laying intricate tile patterns on the bottom of the canal. 
And amid all this glittering wealth lies the seediest of Aeridin's underbelly. The west ports, the west canals house the gambling dens, the brothels, the gang houses. Human trafficking, strained relations between the social classes, and gang violence are huge problems the city faces. 
Newtport citizens are also the only citizens in the country directly taxed by the crown. Newtport often has waves of secessionist thought, viewing the city as autonomous from the country at large. However, no true separation has ever been successful. The crown will always step in before, and continually keeps the city under it's thumb, no matter who sits on the throne.

Demographics

A mixed smattering of all the Aeridinian races. You're less likely to see a Drow, more likely to see an elf or a halfling, lots and lots of humans. This is the city in Aeridin with the largest wealth disparity. As such, class violence is also a problem, the wealthy often getting coerced by the gangs or the gangs being paid of by one wealthy merchant to attack a competitor.

Industry & Trade

Almost all the goods from the country go out here as transporting goods across the arid plain north is dangerous and most would rather do it over water up to the Republic or the Empire.

Guilds and Factions

So many gangs. I will write a few of them one day.

Architecture

Imagine Western building fronts stuck on Italian canals. Those pretty flat fronts with overhangs right along a great salty waterway.

Type

City

Owning Organization

Aeridin