City of Pensan (City of Pens-AN)
Pensan is the most westerly of all Belerion, perched atop the cliffs on the northwest reaches of the landmass that is Aberval and sprawling like the skirts of ballgown down over the hills leading to the cliffs and encompassing the bay below.
Primarily a fishing port, this independent city state has enjoyed a prosperous existence spanning many centuries, having seemingly managed to have solved an issue that has plagued many cities all over the world: diversity in proximity. Keeping a peaceful, safe environment despite the widely differing views of all who call it home.
Perhaps this is in part due to it's geography, and therefore the people it attracts: being at the end of the earth, there is nowhere else to go and people don't go there to 'pass through' it is a destination, not a waypoint. So perhaps Pensanians take solace in that togetherness through loneliness and find an understanding among each other that they never had in their previous locations.
Within the bay area, a large portion of the waterline is given over to quays for the hugely successful fishing fleets to land their catch each day, enjoying a wealth of fish stocks in the surrounding seas due to a lack of competition from any nearby settlements, and the diversity of the city bringing expertise from across Belerion allowing fishermen to adapt their skills to become some of the greatest fishermen in the land. Also present in the bay is what is now referred to as the 'old docks'. Principally a few empty warehouses, a small shipwrights jetty and an anchorage, for when visiting naval ships came alongside to resupply, though this has not happened for several years, leaving some in the city to become concerned about significant vulnerabilities in protecting the city from attack.
Primarily a fishing port, this independent city state has enjoyed a prosperous existence spanning many centuries, having seemingly managed to have solved an issue that has plagued many cities all over the world: diversity in proximity. Keeping a peaceful, safe environment despite the widely differing views of all who call it home.
Perhaps this is in part due to it's geography, and therefore the people it attracts: being at the end of the earth, there is nowhere else to go and people don't go there to 'pass through' it is a destination, not a waypoint. So perhaps Pensanians take solace in that togetherness through loneliness and find an understanding among each other that they never had in their previous locations.
Within the bay area, a large portion of the waterline is given over to quays for the hugely successful fishing fleets to land their catch each day, enjoying a wealth of fish stocks in the surrounding seas due to a lack of competition from any nearby settlements, and the diversity of the city bringing expertise from across Belerion allowing fishermen to adapt their skills to become some of the greatest fishermen in the land. Also present in the bay is what is now referred to as the 'old docks'. Principally a few empty warehouses, a small shipwrights jetty and an anchorage, for when visiting naval ships came alongside to resupply, though this has not happened for several years, leaving some in the city to become concerned about significant vulnerabilities in protecting the city from attack.
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City
