Green Ridge

The quiet, lightly populated community of Green Ridge is a pocket of rural green transplanted into the heart of Absalom. Small parks, large gardens, and copses of trees outnumber the houses in this neighborhood. Its common compact farms are holdovers from the days when Absalom was frequently under siege and growing food within the city’s walls was a sensible use of space. Most of those greenholds now cultivate flowers and rare, expensive delicacies rather than staple crops, but they are still working farms, and their owners could easily shift to more nutritionally efficient production if necessary. Druids are valued by Green Ridge farmers, who have learned to respect their advice on integrating wild trees and flowers with cultivated plants, and druidic charms and prayers are often interwoven with other forms of worship.
Green Ridge tends to be more relaxed and focused on the small pleasures of life than elsewhere in the city. Its people see little point to chasing money or political ambition while ruining happy relationships, corroding the value of life, and leaving even its victors too exhausted to enjoy their spoils. Green Ridgers prefer to live in harmony with their neighbors and surroundings, and though some of Absalom’s other citizens use “ridger” as a term of disparagement for lazy and unambitious folks, Green Ridgers welcome it as a badge of pride.
Fresh flowers from Green Ridge are popular purchases in Absalom, both for color and to block out less savory smells of the city. Absalom’s preferred flowers are heavily influenced by nearby Garund and Qadira, with tulips, irises, poppies, jasmine, lilies, and roses being among the most popular.

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Neighbourhood

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Eastgate