Underside District
Far below Port Side lies Underside. This is the mercantile and manufacturing district of Ishananor that lives in the heart of the semi-subterranean Underforest. Both lantern, magic, and natural sunlight illuminate the entire length of the district. The latter is from long rocky vents, or wide gaps, overhead.
These rocky tears are from ancient, extinct, volcanic vents that form a meandering jagged line from Port Side to the marshy shoreline at the northeast side of Elisan Lake.
In this district is the Tagrica Silk Square, the main marketplace of the city where all manner of trade goods from other nearby locations on the Planus Continent. Despite the rumors of a free-wheeling atmosphere with few legal restrictions, the truth is the opposite. The Ishnanor city council understands the city has some natural resources, but its lifeblood is trade.
Trade is regulated and what is allowed to market and what is not is a matter of regular debate. Not just anything may be bought or sold here. Merchant ships landing at Port Side or caravans arriving at Marshside are provided with a list of what is legal, restricted, and illegal for trade.
Manufacturing in Ishnanor takes the form of textiles, medicinals from the local herbs, metal smithing, alchemy, the arcane, and stone masonry. The latter is unique to Ishnanor and its unusual environment. Stone masons of Ishnanor excel at how to craft and shape stone architecture suited for watery environments such as Port Side, swamp-like areas, or basalt-rich rock environments, such as the ancient lava tubes where Underforest and Underside exist.
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