Northern Trade Route Ports

This is a group of 12 ports which are stops along the trade routes between the Bay of Songs and the outer human kingdoms of Wessican and Flamelian.
These ports are usually isolated in wastelands, orc, goliath, or tiefling areas of the world. The ports were settled in highly defensible positions which are mainly used for ship repairs and re-stocking supplies along the trade routes. These towns usually have one major area to repair boats and are heavily fortified.
In the first few years of settlements, some of the Ports had issues with attacks and raiding, but after a show of force and promise of trade, most of the local cultures have traded at the ports and very few acts of violence/attacks are done.
Most of these Ports do not care about the legality of the ships (pirate, merchant, navy, etc), these Ports are seen as neutral territory and all those who visit must respect the peace or be banned from stopping at any of the Ports.