Bilu

Bilu is the functional capital of the Orbarrow region. Located in an area that was once a canal dug by engineers of the Adlon Empire to connect tributaries of the Rhi'vul and Ser'vul rivers, three millennia of natural forces and humanoid settlement have rendered its once artificial nature both moot and utterly undetectable (at least from the surface.)
Bilu is not a city in the way dry-landers would expect: there are no foundations, and no brick and mortar buildings. The city is actually an ever-changing collection of barges and house boats that have collected over time, with some towards the middle having been there for centuries, many permanently impaled on cypress trees that have grown up through their middles. Intense vertigo is common among visitors who spend extended periods in Bilu, the slight but constant bobbing and heaving of the "ground" being incredibly disorienting. Visitors also tend to be confused by receiving directions from locals that tell them to "head dirtward, ham-hook the big tree, and go towards the Rheev."
In all other ways, Bilu is a fully-fledged city, with taverns, hostels, brothels, shops and nearly any other service a person could expect in a large town, though blacksmiths tend to be in stilt-houses that lie dirtward of the main body of the bargetown.

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City