City of Port Maraan

About Port Maraan

The dockyards of Port Maraan are enormous, sprawling and busy. Ships are constantly coming and going, swarms of dockworkers of every species descending on them like ants. The docks themselves and surrounded by warehouses, flophouses, shops, and bars. Farther into the city proper, specialty markets and bazaars fill marble piazzas. Fountains, artificial pools and trees are common sights.
Trade routes link Port Maraan to the plains of K'Shanah-Ch'rth to the west, as well as undersea to the Kingdom of Ter'ummah to the east. To the south lie the nearly impassable Cloudspire Mountains and beyond them the mountaintop aerial kingdom of Qurhat. Few trade routes link Qurhat with Port Maraan, and those are tightly controlled by the Qurhati.
Not far from Port Maraan are hundreds of square miles of rocky foothills leading ever higher towards the Cloudspire Mountains. These hills are peppered with small mining operations that have been unearthing iron, silver, and small gold deposits for centuries.

Notable People

Mathrin Seaborn is a male human paladin in his late fifties. His orcish grandmother Baroness Avictra was said to have been a Cinarian orc, and Mathrin is said to have Avictra's strenghth. And her eyes. He is both the hereditary Baron of Maraan, and the Lord Mayor of the City, having appointed himself to that role after he retired from the sea fifteen years ago. Earlier in life, as Captain of the Tempest's Fury, he became famous for fighting Majintessan pirates off the Nymerian coast and for his exploits as a swashbuckling explorer. Nymerian bards are still known to sing about his adventures, and the illustrated editions of the novels written about him are still popular decades after they were written.
The massive and sprawling docks of Port Maraan are managed (for most part efficiently) by Dockmaster Hu Adensworn, a female blue dragonborn. Originally from Baatherys far to the west, Dockmaster Hu moved to Port Maraan with her family when she was young.
Port Maraan has two main industries: shipping and mining, though most of the city's residents work in shipping in some way. The city's sailors, navigators, and dockworkers are organized in the Maritime Guild. Pahra Fen is the female cheetah-tabaxi Speaker of the guild.
Found in cities throughout the south, the Office of the City Magewright serves as the chief magic user in the city. They are responsible for managing workshops of magewrights who craft magic items for the municipality's use. Resic the Wanderer is an out of shape, elderly male half elf wizard who has served as Port Maraan's City Magewright for 137 years. He plans to retire when he hits 150. Resic is called 'the wanderer' mostly because he never travels, though some remember his early career as an adventurer.

Inns

The World's End Hotel and Casino is expensive and as exclusive as a port city hotel can be. Its owner, the male triton crime boss Gallan Esca, is widely known to avoid prosecution with a combination of bribes and political patronage.
The Ashian Chapterhouse in Port Maraan - like Chapterhouses the world over - provides housing to weary travelers at low to moderate cost. The host is Telmin Ora, a male satyr cleric of Ashian.
The Southgate Inn is found near the docks. A cheap, dangerous dive bar of an inn, the Southgate's moonshine is so strong it's said customers get drunk a second time on their own piss. Owned for the past thirty years by the female halfing and former sailor Arda Foxhollow, A decade ago, Arda hired the female minotaur Untien as bartender, bouncer, and part-time bodyguard.

Temples

An Ashian Chapterhouse : run by Telmin Ora, satyr cleric of Ashian, fey goddess of travelers.
The Temple of Uluaan goddess of the sea, is the largest temple in Port Maraan, an imposing granite and marble edifice. The High Priestess Bola Tidewater, an elderly female gnoll, presides over more than a dozen subordinate priests.
The Temple of Aden, goddess of elemental water is a popular alternative to the Temple of Uluann. The Water Sister's high priestess is Bayna Highmast, a young female bugbear. (see Disciples of the Five Sisters)
There is a small Temple of Chan goddess of elemental earth (see Disciples of the Five Sisters) located a few blocks from the market. Predictably, the Chanite temple serves many of the local miners, as well as artisans like gemcutters and metalsmiths. Their High Priest is Orphion Cora, a middle-aged loxodon who works closely with the firbolg Haxian Treesong. Treesong is a retired miner and the leader of the Miners' Guild as well as being a deacon in the Chanite temple.

Lamplighter Society

The Port Maraan Lamplighter Society maintains a small library and bookstore down a side street in the central market square. On the surface, it appears to be a ramshackle storefront with books displayed in the large bay windows. Inside, however, the narrow aisles between bookshelves and researchers' desks wind deep into backrooms and several sub-basements.
Like all branches of the Society, this one is led by a Keeper of Tomes. In this case, Keeper Aris Baelaran, a female tortle of indeterminate age and a cleric of Oryaan.
While the large and famous Great Libraries of the world are home to several teams of Seekers of the Light, the Port Maraan library has a team of three: the male halfling rogue Bek, the female lizardfolk rogue Tjellin, and the hobgoblin fighter Moalla.

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City