Riverdrown

Riverdrown is a wealthy, multicultural city-state located along the Diamond River and governed by the Council of Twenty. The city's original founders were pirates and raiders who began settling the land around the river in 379 ABW. Known as an overcrowded and wretched place for decades, Riverdrown was later turned into a prosperous and more accomodating settlement by the then-nascent Merchants' League.

Name
According to many, Riverdrown earned its name from the preferred execution method of its founding rulers. Mutineers, rivals, and other undesirables were said to have been thrown off the old bridge with heavy stones tied around their ankles. Every so often, a skeleton or two is dredged up from the river bed, lending credibility to this theory.

An inhabitant of Riverdrown is known as a Riverdrowner.

The Mercantile District
The Mercantile District is is where most of the business in Riverdrown is conducted. Some parts of it are more affluent than others, but it is overall the most well-maintained part of the city. The markets, docks, library, temples, banks and middle to upper class townhouses are located here, as is the illustrious Council Square and Hall.

The Garden District
The Garden District is named as such for its cemeteries, parks, and sprawling green houses. Most of Riverdrown’s food supply comes from here, but the district is also a prolific producer of herbal intoxicants like librient, pipeweed, and riverdust, all of which are legal yet heavily taxed and regulated in the city.

The Night District
The Night District is the only portion of the city on the other side of the river. It is where the city's casinos, fighting halls and brothels are, and is where many Riverdrowners and foreigners come to enjoy themselves and possibly lose most of their money and teeth. The district's most popular casino is a three-story building called the Seventh Ruby.

The Mutant District
The Mutant District is a squalid slum where most of the city's poor, sick and mutated are relegated to. Although Riverdrown actively discourages anti-mutant pogroms (seeing a mutant's worth as a potential customer), its lofty elven and human leadership hasn't attempted to make life any better for them either.

The Ravenwing Bridge
The Ravenwing Bridge is Riverdrown's most iconic structure. Over a century old, it replaced an earlier, much weaker bridge and is made out of sturdier materials. It was named in honor of Councilman Parnos Ravenwing, who championed the construction of a "new bridge for a new Riverdrown" during the Great Reformation.