The Upper Slums
The Upper Slums began several hundred years ago as a tent city, built by citizens too poor to pay Abastel's outrageous taxes and were forced outside of the city gates. As time went on, the slum grew until it rivalled the size of a third of the city.
Though their conditions were still meagre when the magnanimous Enoria Dawnbringer ended Abastel'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 Oceanside elite , it's people have reclaimed the name, transforming the term "Upper Slums" into a symbol of pride. Some major ills afflict the the region; the most obvious is its rampant crime and Clasp activity, for the Alabaster Guard are spread to thin to defend the district properly.
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