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== City Districts ==

=== Arena ===
Long ago, the Sovereigns of Blackport initiated the construction of a massive stone complex northeast of the city outside the walls where various events – races, gladiatorial combat fights, and the like – could be held to provide distractions for the populace.  The area around the complex built up with time, eventually holding many businesses and inhabitants.  Finally, the Sovereign decided to wall the area in, both to better protect it and to establish more direct control over what went in and out of the area.

=== Bazaar === 
Market district where non-living goods are traded and sold.  
The Grand Bazaar area is a huge open market with stalls and tents everywhere.
The Smaller Midnight Market specializes in specialized, expensive goods.  There are more guards in the Midnight Market, resulting in less theft and crime.

=== Bilgewater ===
A poor district of laborers and other low job holders who work on the wharfs, as well as criminals and those who provide services to them.

=== Bonedust ===
An area outside the arena.  The bodies of fallen gladiator slaves are brought here for processing into various products that are valued by the humanoid and giant-kin residents of Blackport.

=== Charsoot ===
Named for the smoke and soot that issue from the Blacksmiths that work in this quarter.  Primarily skilled craftsmen and merchants.

=== Crossbones ===
The favored quarter for the cities more well-to-do pirates and seamen, Crossbones has its share of crime – mostly drunken fights and pickpocketing – but is also the scene of many a duel fought after a perceived slight.

=== [[ Landsoftheblacksea:Main Page/realms/Blackport/darklane | Darklane]] ===
Many mages, sages, astronomers, seers, and other practicioners of the esoteric arts.

=== Golden Way ===
Expensive Shops & Goods patronized mostly by wealthy & nobility

=== Grunt ===

A poor district comprised mostly of Orcs and Half-Orcs as well as some giant-kin.

Grunt is the no-mans land between the Skull Crown and Blood Mask factions of orcs, based out of Spearaxe and The Maw, respectively.  It is heavily populated by members of the Iron Forge faction.  When tensions between the Skull Crowns and Blood Masks spill over, Grunt is usually where the resulting killings happen.

=== Guildhall ===
Houses many of the halls for Blackport’s guilds, as well as a good number of Inns and Taverns which rent out large rooms for those guilds that cannot afford their own building.  A center of business deals and trade.

=== Hero’s Gate ===
Middle-class district with homes for merchants and skilled craftsmen as well as many fighters who retired from the arena after earning their fortunes there.

=== Highwalls ===
An area of walled mansions mostly inhabited by rich and/or nobles.

=== Ironshadow ===
Middle-class residential area – many guards, merchants, traders, and craftsmen live here.  Named for the fact that it is shadowed by the Iron City and Doomkeep until nearly mid-day.

=== Lord’s Gate ===
Upper-Middle class district.

=== Midnight Gardens ===
A district of beautiful gardens.  The entire area is fenced and requires a fee to enter.  It is heavily guarded and watched.  Many of the trees, bushes, and plants here bloom only at night, giving the area its name.  Places within the gardens can be reserved or rented for private functions for a price.

=== Miner’s Gate ===
Working class area where much of the ore brought in from the South Mines is sold, to then be transported to the docks or to Charsoot for processing into ingots.

=== Moloch’s Circus ===
Sometimes shortened to just “The Circus.” 
A place where the most cruel and foul desires can be had – for the right price.  The things that are paid for and sold in Moloch’s Circus would turn the stomach of most good and honorable people.  The practices within are one of the reasons for the constant demand for new slaves within the city.

=== Red lantern ===
Low class district of cheap thrills and entertainment; many houses of ill repute, drug dens, gambling parlors, bawdy theaters, taverns, decrepit inns, and the like.

=== Redrobe ===
An area dominated by noble houses.

=== Roughtumble ===
A lively area filled with taverns, gambling houses, bawdy houses, courtesans, as well as weapons schools and the like.

=== Saltwater ===
A working-class area dominated by those who work on the wharfs.

=== Sellsword ===
Many mercenary fighters here.  Also many shops selling armor and weapons.

=== [[Landsoftheblacksea:Main Page/realms/Blackport/slavers_district/ | Slaver’s District]] ===

District that holds the auction blocks where slaves are bought and sold.  Many of the buildings here are prisons for holding slaves who are in transit or awaiting their fate.  Residents tend to be slavers, guards, or the poorer traders, as well as those who work on or service the ships that transport slaves to and from Blackport.

=== Spearaxe ===
Dominated by Orcs; considered a better place to live than Grunt – higher ranking and/or more wealthy Orcs tend to live in Spearaxe.  Still a violent district due to intertribal fighting.  A few giant-kin can be found here as well.

=== [[Landsoftheblacksea:Main Page/realms/Blackport/the_iron_city | The Iron City]] ===
The center of the Government of Blackport.
Massive guard and military presence.  Crawling with members of the Shadowatch.
Doomkeep, the citadel and residence of the Sovereign, lies within an additional protective wall inside the Iron City.

=== The Maw ===
Many of the giant-kin that live in the city reside in The Maw.  

=== The Warren ===
A horrible area of extremely poor people consumed by crime, addiction, and crushing poverty. Primarily human, but significant numbers of other races are present.

=== Warehouse ===
Self explanatory.