The Docks

Overall Look and Theme
The docks exist along what once used to be a narrow strip of beach along the island’s rocky shore, but which has now been converted to a harbor that can accommodate around 3-4 large ships or several smaller ones in relative safety from the raging ocean. Even away from the harbor itself, it’s a bustling locale with dock workers, traders, merchants and seedy foreigners permeating its many homes, inns and warehouses. But the living aren’t the only ones to share its company.

Even though the enraged Ocean is held at bay by the Harbor walls, it still invades the Docks in the form of a thick fog around its base and even around its upper reaches. On occasion clouds invade from the Ocean, causing it to rain severely, giving the entire area a twilight and gloomy appearance even when the sun is out. Indeed, if not for its lighthouse, many a ship would have been lost on the treacherous seas.

There are some notes of the docks: it ascends vertically quite rapidly the more inland you go. The Shipyards/Harbor is right on the coast and so at sea level, while the inns and warehouses are higher up as one goes towards the city. The highest point, of course, is the lighthouse which is against a sheer vertical cliff face. To get an (albeit rough) idea of the kind of vertical progression we’re looking at, the following image may be handy despite having a more middle eastern/oriental style to it.

For images, please look at the word doc that's located here in the Section 1 heading

Sub Zones
The Shipyards and Harbor

The Inns

The Warehouses

The Lighthouse