Lower Central Plateau
Districts of Lower Central Plateau
The buildings of the Lower Wards of Sharn are typically ten stories high. Centuries ago they were probably spacious. As wealthy families moved to higher levels and towers, they subdivided these Lower buildings and turned them into dense tenements. Buildings in Lower Sharn are still owned by the ‘leading families’ of the city, such as the ir’Tains; but half of the Lower districts are appalling slums. High Walls, a district in Lower Tavick’s Landing is perhaps the worst. Packed with Cyran refugees, you could buy any ‘service’ you could imagine from them. Yet the Cyrans are a proud and cultured people. Their condition of humiliation in Lower Sharn should be a concern for both the city government and the regime of Breland as a whole.
Today the Lower Wards are dimly-lit, damp, and reeking from the refuse tossed down from upper levels of the city. A species of glow-moss grows on the walls of many of the crumbling buildings. Glow-moss is the only reason why darkvision is not required even at midday; but it casts an eerie blue-green pall over the whole level.
How the Lower Wards are mapped In the maps I have have compiled, I only show the street level of the Lower and Middle Wards. The buildings above this level follow the same footprint, but most of the businesses are located at the base of each building, where it rests upon the great basalt platforms that support each Level. In many Lower Wards a webwork of rickety bridges and catwalks are strung between buildings at various heights above the streets. At first I tried to map those, too. But each time I returned to a district some had collapsed or been re-strung in a different arrangement. The ground-level plan forms the only stable reference for these districts.
This district is peaceful and largely residential; it’s the safest and most pleasant of the lower wards. Goods and services are largely priced for those with a comfortable lifestyle, and the Sharn Watch is plentiful and well paid. The district of Boldrei’s Hearth has many reasonably priced inns (most run by House Ghallanda), and Olladra’s Kitchen has a wide assortment of taverns and restaurants. Myshan Gardens is a residential district that caters to affluent artists, while Vallia Towers has a large community of half-elves.
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