Merchant District
The Merchant District is the swankiest part of Freeport, home to the rich and the influential. Many residents of Freeport never even see this part of town, and they wouldn’t be allowed to stay long if they did. Only the affluent, the aristocratic, and the very famous are welcome here, along with their servants and retinues—and the teams of private guards patrolling the district make this fact abundantly clear to any strangers who wander in. Wave Street is the main avenue that runs right through the center of the district, starting at the west gate of the Old City and going from there to the Plaza of Gold, the highest point in the city proper. It continues past the plaza and down to the sea to the Marina, a private pier utilized solely by the city’s seafaring elite.
Despite being isolated from the rest of the city by its standards of wealth, the Merchant District still shares borders with other parts of the city. For centuries the center of Freeport’s wealth and power, this place remains the most prosperous in the city, yet the, famines, and troubles of the last few years have not all stopped short at the district’s borders. Few here have truly suffered, but many fear that they yet might. The Sea Lord might claim their finances, their business could dry up, or their servants might turn on them out of greed and jealousy. The scions of the Merchant District swagger in public, but in private, their paranoia continues to rise.
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