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I am working on a revised map of the city, incorporating some refinements to the style as well as some rationalization of the space. The link here is to an early phase of reworking.
I will also need help in naming the various neighborhoods of the city, so if you have any ideas on that, please feel free to let me know. I will be periodically updating the map as it takes shape.
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1. Mandible Wharf
Sat close to the Nephrite Docks, the air of this historic neighbourhood is alive with the sound of merchant shipping and the still river waters. It is the point through which day-trippers in their finest head out to charter boats to take them out of the city and along tours of the northernmost parts of Mugroba and the point by which many first find entrance to the city.
As such, it has now gained a reputation as a home for the unimaginative, those of little in the way of much drive and ambition. A pleasant enough place, once home to artists and poets who lended it a certain kind of romanticism, it soon found itself home to tourists giving it an oddly inauthentic feel. Hotels sprang up like weeds across the wharf and it is considered, by absolutely any one who grew up in Thul’Ka proper, to be the home of substandard cuisine catering to blander foreign palettes. All the same, the social life is pleasant enough in a tame, ‘toy town’ sort of way- there are statuettes here and there and some nice historic spots for people to visit should they so desire it. There are often animal shows for children and traditional dance troops to keep a family entertained.
A certain malaise happens to sit around the gills, quite honestly, of the place now. The plague hit it badly- not in a medical sense but in a fiscal one. Similarly, the war in Anaxas has left the future looking a little dim for the wharf to boot.
2. Lawyer’s Commons
Do not be put off by the name and write off this neighbourhood as one dripping with the snake oil and grease of those in the law profession because once, while it was true, the place was known most for its law offices and judiciary buildings, the district is now filled up with all manner of professional types. Newspaper offices sit on corners and banks filled to the brim with clerks. At the end of work hours it is not uncommon to see a veritable swarm of workmen piling out of the building and into the public houses that lawyer’s commons has an equal reputation for. It becomes quite rambunctious in the early evenings.
Though this district is mostly commercial, if one should have any kind of desire to buy a property here they would find the prices almost intolerably high, leading to an incredible rush on the cable ways here. As such the cable way facilities in Laywer’s Commons are second to none throughout the city and yet still a cause of much grumbling.
3. Asefa Gully
The name of this district is mostly Thul’Amat Urban Legend but there is arguably some shred of truth in it, perhaps. Named for one early scholar of Deja Temple who met a particularly gruesome end in a wet channel, the young and more raucous student types like to say that this area is lousy with ghosts. Mostly though it is just lousy with the more bourgeoisie type of student. The politicized ones. The drunk ones. It does not have a particularly good reputation amongst the school.
UMM….WIP FOR NOW??