Dejima
You will likely be arriving by port, so make sure to savour the sea before you arrive. Once you get there you can step off your ship and make your way to the common district, where Dejima is at it's finest. Visit the ocean temple, then take a stop at the marketplace and buy some of the finest jewelry there is. If you want you can go to the residential district, perhaps that is where you are staying, but if you have no reason to be there I would suggest staying closer to the ocean, the further inland you go the closer you get to the mines and the blast furnaces. Never did like that area, my ears rung when I stayed there longer than a couple of hours. Besides that I have a long list of the finest places for you to go shopping if you would like!- a Dejiman merchant trying to convince somebody to visit the city
Demographics
Species: 70% human, 15% dwarf, 5% elf, 3% aarakocra, 3% tabaxi, 4% other
Wealth: 4% unemployed/homeless, 70% labour class, 25% middle class, 1% upper class
Age (in humans): 0-60: 30%, 61-105: 45%, 106-150: 20%, 151+: 5%
Defences
Due to it's somewhat isolated location Dejima emphasizes oceanic defences more than it does land based defences. A few kilometres North of the city is a large dog for the 50+ ships owned by the city which were made for the express reason of defence. between 10 and 30 of them are out on the water at any given time at a radius of between 500 meters and 5 kilometres from the city. Each ship has a capable crew and ballistas aboard, as well as one spell caster whose job it is to detect approaching ships and question them on who they are and what they want.
It has a city guard, but it does not have walls surrounding the city, just a couple of watchtowers. The logic is that if an army intends to attack from the desert then they will already be quite tired and are easy to spot on the barren desert, so we can take care of them easily enough. This logic did not apply when aarakocras attacked, so the city slightly modified it's defences after the fact, employing a few flying aarakocran spell casters to help deal with incoming ariel attacks, if they ever become a problem again.
Industry & Trade
Imports Foodstuffs (crops, meat), wood, various trade goods (candles, spyglasses, etc.)
Exports Fish, refined Lepethite, glass, sand, refined minerals
Industry The majority of labourers in the city are in the mining and refinement industry, the jobs of most people range from miner to transport manager to refinement specialist. The middle and upper class is mostly in trading and in the actual running of the city, whether they be architects, shopkeepers, guards, or ship owners.
History
Dejima was first settled around 700AC by a small group of semi-nomadic humans who decided to stop travelling and settle down by the ocean. Around 1000AC a church of Yondemuno and the Three Ocean Goddesses was built, and quickly became the centre of the quickly growing town. During the Age of Independence the city was mostly unaffected because there were few orcs and halflings in it's population to begin with, as well as the fact that it was in the desert. The city did participate in the wars of the Age of Turmoil, but it was never destroyed and suffered relatively low casualties and a 2 year occupation by aarakocras, nothing more. Now it is one of the trading hubs of the sea and the biggest produces of Lepethite in the world.
Architecture
Differing from the broad architectural style of most other human cities, Dejima's buildings are painted predominantly white and have large overhanging grooves which provide shade. The roof of a standard house is typically around 1/3 larger in perimeter than the actual building. Additionally, streets in the city prioritize efficiency and compactness over style or comfort, and most streets are lined with near identical square buildings jammed tightly together. The notable exception to this is in the "common district" where the docks are, most stores, and most temples. This district is much more open than the others and the buildings are much more diverse both due to the fact that unlike most other parts of the city this one was built over millennia and also because the city planners were smart enough to realize that those entering the city from the sea (the majority of people) should get a good first impression before heading into the more dense and uniform parts.
Geography
The city is located on the Eastern Coast within the lower reaches of the Senpei Desert. The coastline side leads to a manmade sand bay for ships and the desert side leads to a kilometre long plain of rock, where all the sand has been cleaned out, and then a desert further from that.
Natural Resources
There are 3 and only 3 valuable natural resources in the area around the city. The first is fish, which are the primary source of food for the city since farms are unviable. The second is sand and all that comes from it, notably glass and the ever rare Lepethite. Finally there is the earth that can be quarried beneath the sand which contains many valuable minerals when mined deep enough.
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