Camorr

Camorr is one of the prominent southern city-states, located on the Brass Sea south on the continent, and consists of eighty-eight thousand souls. The city’s skeleton is a network of Elden glass towers, bridges and labyrinths – remnants of a vanished race – and fleshed out by humanity with wood and stone. The Angevine River splits Camorr down the center.   A network of canals, traversed using barges not dissimilar to gondolas, split Camorr into a series of little island-esque segments. Camorr is split into districts and like all cities, Camorr has luxurious parts and impoverished parts. The latter consists of the Narrows, the Dregs, the Wooden Waste, the Snare, the Cauldron, Coalsmoke, Ashfall, and most of the docks, though it’s fair to say the destitution isn’t necessarily limited to the districts above. The closer one gets to the prestigious Five Towers the further one gets from the poverty stricken parts of Camorr: North Corner, Coin-Kissers Row and Alcegrante are sound examples of these exclusive sections.   Coin-Kisser’s Row is said to be ‘the oldest and goldest financial district on the continent’ and its ostentatious three/four story buildings reflect this claim. The northern half of this district lies opposite to the Fauria, a crowded island consisting primarily of ‘multi-tiered stone apartments and rooftop gardens’. The Videnza district is a comfortable part of the city, though possibly not as much as the Alcegrante, clean and spacious and well patrolled; its shops, despite being situated within old buildings, are well kept and sport brightly colored roofs and recognizable names of distinguished merchants not inclined to face the Shifting Market. The Shifting Market is a lake about half a mile in circumference, packed with hundreds of merchant barges selling their wares to civilians on breakwaters. The Shifting Revel, where observation barges are secured to the breakwaters and occupied by hundreds of Camorri wanting to see the performances, replaces the Market once a month. These performances are conducted atop sunken iron cages, and include the Teeth Show, Judicial Forfeitures and Penance Bouts. Opposite the Shifting Market are the Alcegrante islands, home to the minor nobility of Camorr. It is a place of ‘walled gardens, elaborate water sculptures and white stone villas’ where any persons appearing as low-class are brusquely discouraged to enter. The Alcegrante is located in the Upper City.   The Narrows is located at the tip of the bad part of the city. Forty feet beneath the outer edges of Camorr, it is a labyrinth of ‘warrens and hovels’ consisting of rows upon rows of ‘tenement housing and windowless shops’ with countless narrow alleys snaking between these structures barely wide enough to fit two men walking abreast. The Wooden Waste, located south in Camorr, is a sheltered bay open to the sea, acting as a ship graveyard. It is also rumored to be home to the legendary Crowns of Camorr. The Dregs are described as ‘poverty-wracked’, the Snare ‘disreputable’, and Ashfall ‘dirty and falling apart’. The Cauldron is the worst part of Camorr, the name possibly originating from claims that the Cauldron is an amalgamation of all the bad parts of the city. Even the yellowjackets refuse to enter the place unless in well-armed squadrons.