Rathgar
Set on the northern shore of the Blue Spruce River, where it meets with Rathgar Bay, the Rathgar is a cramped city that huddles behind both walls and a moat on its landward sides. And while the moat is not that wide and the walls not that tall, they seem to serve as a sufficient deterrent to the Goblin tribes that raid region from the east. Fortunately, these raids have dropped in frequency over the past fifty years as the land around the city proper has been filled with the orchards, fields, and rice paddies of hundreds of small farms that feed the city. The population explosion in the surrounding countryside means that there would scarily be room for everyone behind the walls in the event of siege.
Behind the walls, farthest from the bay and river, cramped, thatched roof homes house some of some of the city's poorest residents alongside a set of small farms that enjoy the security of being within the city limits. Streets in this outer portion of the city tend to run in long, straight lines, being more or less planned in the past 50 years. Buildings here are low - one or two stories - often serving as both a home and place of business. Wealthier residents - merchants, ship owners, and craftsmen - have the largest homes here, but unlike many of the older cities in the Inner Seas they abut the hovels and tenements of the poor.
As one gets closer to both bodies of water the streets begin wind and buildings crowd together into a narrow warren, often bisected by canals. Taverns, brothels, and boarding houses abound in this district where the lamps stay lit and the din of people clamors until well past midnight. Unlike similar districts in other cities, however, it remains relatively clean as the Rathgar City Council pays a number of its residents to sweep the streets, emptying it of offal and litter.
Warehouses and docks line the river where the scents of salt water mix with that of fish. Many of the warehouses serve as fish processing facilities where the great catches from the Gulf of Azermathia are salted, pickled or smoked and then packed onto waiting ships for transit to far off ports. Far up the river, the smell of tar predominates as the shipyards work tirelessly to repair the local fleet of fishing boats and built some of the finest ocean-going transports in all of Tarien.
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Rathgar
Founding Date
542 AC and again in 616 AC
Type
City
Population
20,000
Inhabitant Demonym
Rathgarans
Location under
Included Locations
Owning Organization
Characters in Location
- Aemon Conroy
- Antonio Brenkin
- Baldric Loganborne
- Edwyn Smythe
- Errol Silver Tongue
- Fitz Conroy
- Florence Kandar
- Franco de'Salle
- Freyja Layladotterdotterdotterdotterdotter
- Marco Wright
- Marcus Blacknose
- Marie Pendrale
- Merrick Shal'Vorka
- Otto Palomar
- Padushan Shal'Tuiz
- Paolo Wright
- Renshakalin Shal'Vorka
- Taggart Conroy
- Three-Fingered Sal
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