Havensport

Cobble together four or five salt-sprayed slums, add the most corrupt merchants and embittered officials, invite the cruelest of outlaws, and stick it all on a collection of perilous rocks off the Eastern coast of Arethal, and you essentially have Havensport. This is the trading capital of Rheann, where people of all kinds come to buy, sell, and if  the Merchant’s Council allows it, perhaps even find fortune.

Of course, the dream of wealth is far off for most of the people of Havensport. They live in cramped, unhealthy conditions, selling the hours of their lives to mines, gangs, vendors, or the ruthless ship’s captains who call the island kingdom home. Plague and poverty are familiar threats which tend to swallow entire families whole. Despite this, Havensport has a reputation as a nation overflowing with wealth and  opportunity.

The kingdom is technically ruled by a monarch, but their king or queen is selected by combat rather than lineage. The raucous tournament to decide a ruler is an extremely popular event, but it is the secretive Merchant’s Council which steers the nation’s policies.

Anyone and everyone is welcome on the damp streets of Havensport, but those with coin are more likely to survive than those without.

Kingsport
While the majority of Havensportians live dirty, uncomfortable lives in overpopulated shanties, there are some presentable sections of the kingdom. These segments of the island chain are known collectively as Kingsport.

The wealthy keep exclusively to this section of Havensport, which sports newer buildings, well- cobbled roads, and a sewer system to keep the air breathable and relatively plague-free. Here, high-class merchants sell fine jewelry, art, and sublime culinary treats. Bards perform the latest Hadrasian plays on gilded stages, and noblemen and women attend grand balls in celebration of their wealth.

The guards of Kingsport are numerous, well-equipped, and working under strict orders to keep the riffraff out. Outsiders sometimes remark that the nobility of Havensport treat the poor less like compatriots and more like an infestation. In truth, they are probably a little crueler than that.