Upper Slums
The Upper Slums began several hundred years ago as a tent city, built by citizens too poor to pay Drassig’s outrageous taxes and were forced outside of the city gates. As time went on, the slum grew until it rivaled the size of a third of the city. Though their conditions were still meager when the magnanimous Zan Tal’Dorei ended Drassig’s iron rule, the city’s denizens chose to remain, having created a community with its own culture of inexpensive living and brotherhood in poverty, away from the bustle of the city’s inner streets. A microcosm society now exists within the slum, including its own trade square, shrines for worship, and makeshift farms on the outskirts.
Though the district’s name was once a sneering insult by the Cloudtop elite, its people have reclaimed the name, transforming the term “Upper Slums” into a symbol of pride. Two major ills afflict the region; the most obvious is its rampant crime and Clasp activity, for the Arms of Emon care little for defending the district. The second feeds the first; wealthy Emonians have suddenly begun building homes within the Upper Slums, diluting its unique culture and fanning the flames of resentment.
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