Cities, Towns & Places of Interest.
The continent of Tempest is made of many Baronies all owing fealty to the King of Tempest, His Glorious Highness King Albert Valora. King Albert rules from the Filigree Palace, located in the Capital City, Glimmerhold.
The population of Tempest is very diverse. You will find Humans, Gnomes, Dwarves, Goblins, Halflings & Wood Elves in large numbers all over the continent. It is not uncommon however to find many other races on Tempest as well, all living along side various constructs.
The Capital city of Tempest.
The Clockwork Shore is a highly industrialised region of Tempest with many skilled artisans and diverse trade, both domestic and overseas.
Rabanastre is a port town, on the Clockwork Shore, in the barony of Theodea.
The population is diverse, in part due to being a port and in part because the town took in a lot of refugees from the Barren Lands during the Great Burning. Most of the town make their living from the port; from the shops & hostelry that serve the visitors to ship-wrights and dock workers.
For the most part people are comfortable; there are the normal social issues and people in poverty but food is reasonably available and thanks to the Goblins at the Green Skin Potion works, (a huge factory making potions, mostly healing potions), healing is also cheap and plentiful. The truly scarce commodity in Rabanastre is space.
The streets of Rabanastre are crowded. The buildings are mostly red brick, stained with grey, from the industry and steam that pervade the town. It is more of city despite still being regarded as the small port town that it once was before the Great Burning.
Since the Great Burning, much of Rabanastre has been rebuilt; some old buildings exist but they are few and far between.
The city has exceptional public transport services, they have trains, airships, the Docks and of course more usual forms of transport like horse-drawn coaches or Automaton powered sedan chairs.
Along the docks are brothels, coffee houses, tea houses, all manner of shops and stalls and a great many places to eat. A beautiful steel framed promenade extends the length of the docks, lit with lanterns hanging from the ornate metal work of the roof. There are establishments for all budgets & for those with privilege, there are the exclusive, members only clubs; often open only to specific trades or professions.
Behind the busy dock front, are many warehouses; brightly lit and bustling with activity at all hours. The docks and the warehouses are governed by the Dock Master, a very serious gentleman named Lucian Everly , helped by the Town Watch, who do regular patrols.
Like any large settlement, Rabanastre has it’s slum areas. Compared to many places, the slums here aren’t *so* terrible; rather than utter squalor, the people who call the slums home have to deal with incredibly cramped conditions. The houses here are either brick built homes that have been crudely split into several dwellings or poorly constructed dwellings built in what used to be spaces between the brick houses.
The Maidens of the Forge (a group of Women widowed by the metal works, who give alms to the needy of Rabanastre) can often been seen carrying their enchanted, ever burning lanterns through the slums, handing out food, medicine and clothing.
Rabanastre as a Campaign setting is detailed here.
Trevayne is an Island off the northern coast of Tempest. Over the years, Trevayne has been used for many things. It was originally a sparsely populated Island before being absorbed by the Kingdom of Tempest when it became a barracks and fort against invasion from what is now the Barrenlands.
Since that time it has been a hospital for contagious disease; a prison Island and most recently a processing centre for refugees from the Great Burning. It is currently undergoing a change of purpose into a huge factory (and facilities for the staff) producing Zeppelins.
Wells Haven is part of the Kingdom of Tempest and is joined to the mainland by an amazing feat of engineering. Spanning the distance between the two land masses is an enormous iron suspension bridge that was designed by the famous Gnome engineer, Brunel Notabard.
Wells Haven is home to the Temple of Occulus, the All Seeing. Occulus used to be the Queen of Tempest but at the moment of her death the Gods joined together to place her spirit into a beautiful statue that was made of milky opal, transforming her into a Goddess. She remains living among the people of Tempest (the temple is her main home) inspiring charity and philanthropy as she travels. The rest of the Island is populated by Priestesses and Nuns devoted to Occulus.