Compass

Industry & Trade

The Compass kept itself alive by being where everyone went to make and spend money. They set themselves up as a hub of commerce and trade, and the people came. They came, and that was what eventually killed them.

Infrastructure

Multiple dockyards, the beginnings of factories, and the Broshan hub of markets and shops.

History

Founding

Around the time the Empire was formed, the small fishing town began making a push for commerce, adding exports of cloth as well as fish and oil. From this they began accumulating wealth, which they put into expanding across the island, building up the town into a city centered around a large market and shipyard. From there, they continued to gather wealth, as their reputation as the jewel and pride of Brosha spread. They hosted the Pheaceton nobility's vacations, pirates' need for their markets, travelling merchants and humble fishers.

The Tidal Wave

When Kantmai erupted, Compass was the one to suffer for it most in Brosha. The people recognised the beginnings of the wave that would destroy their work as the tides receded. Those that had a way to escape did, taking others and stuffing tiny boats with far too many people as they fled the retreating tide and growing wave. Those that couldn't leave watched the ocean, black with falling ash, summon a tidal wave larger than any they'd seen before, sixty feet high and dwarfing their city entirely.

When the wave hit, it swept over the island entirely, taking every building and ship still in harbor with it. When the water receded, nothing was left of Compass besides a few pieces of foundations still rooted in the ground, and the sinkholes where basements and entrances to vaults had been.

Architecture

Varied between squat wood buildings packed with mud, to brightly-painted clay houses standing taller than some ships. Stained glass and bright colours accented even the most humble buildings.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
1600

Type

City

Population

1520

Location under

The Needle