Tag

harbor-district

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Low WaterThe night of the year's lowest tide, when the old courses of the Penny Shrine stand dry and Venturia goes down to the water to ask. The Ferriers' ConfraternityAn ancient guild of gondoliers operating from a boathouse that doesn't appear on any map — they know every canal in Venturia, including the ones that aren't supposed to exist. The Harbor DistrictVenturia's lower city of salt, cargo, old loyalties, working docks, ferriers, tidekeepers, and waterways that do not always behave. The Harbor Wardens' CompactThe merchant guild controlling everything moving through Venturia's ports — fees, warehouses, and merchants — quietly obsessed with protecting the city's prosperity. The Penny ShrineA shrine to no particular deity, wedged between Harbor District warehouses — centuries of accumulated offerings from sailors and desperate people, tended by a keeper who carefully avoids making any claims about whether the prayers are heard. The Tidekeeper's LodgeSix centuries of harbor guardians who know every current, every channel, and every secret the sea brings in — and have learned that some knowledge is best kept within the family. The UndertowA gambling den built into the harbor cliffs where the house accepts memories, secrets, and future favors as stakes — and whose true owner has possibly been the same person for two hundred years. The Warehouse ConsortiumThe Harbor District enterprise and political base of Constanza Marea's family, controlling storage, cargo flow, and dockside leverage.