Hethwarp
The city of Hethwarp started out as a small port town, then became a trade mission, and then was built into a bustling city when the Far East Company took control of the country of Avunta. The most important parts of the city are the trade market, the harbor, and the walled Company Quarter where company officials from the colonial governor on her estate down to mid-level managers live in luxury (or at least comfort) brought about largely by the labors of closely supervised locals who live primarily in the warrens of the Native Quarter.
The trade markets deal in grains (especially the ubiquitous rice), fruit, hardwoods, fabrics such as muslins and silks, and many more things. Plantation managers negotiate tightly with ship captains or trade intermediaries for the best prices for their goods; they know they probably have only five or 10 years to accumulate as much as they can pinch from the commodities that pass through their hands before they might be rotated to another station and have to learn a new system from the beginning.
The harbor is a busy place, with large oceangoing vessels sailing out of Castorhage calling here and smaller ships running up and down the coast to other Castorhagi stations. Although most large ships do travel all the way to Baragibra (because after a ship has come all the way from Castorhage, why not sail another hundred miles or two), they use Hethwarp as their location for shore leave before heading out on the long trip home. Resources come here from capable, aggressive factors who have made inroads along the Dhobe, as well as some who have stations on the Tusora River to the west, and others who managed to establish themselves in villages on the west side of the Ukshauka Hills. Hethwarp has been a great success for the Far East Company and the business is actively exploring extending its official reach farther up the Dhobe and north along the coast into what is now the Kingdom of Tola.
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