This city stands upon hundreds of small islands, connected by stone-banked canals. The landward side of the city is marshy and unpleasant, but Miragliano is airy and clean. Water is a problem - the surrounding sea is obviously undrinkable, while the streams and small rivers that permeate the marshes to the north lie several miles distant. The residents buy what they need from the local water sellers, who ply the canals in their small barges.

Miragliano is a great trading city, whose light, fast ships are a scourge to the large trading nations. Ships from Miragliano regularly sail as far afield as the deep south, although running the blockade of Magrittan ships in the southern sea can prove treacherous. The Miraglianians are vigorous and ambitious people. Merchants from the city can be found in every major Old World port buying furs, sea ivory, and amber in Erengrad, trading the goods of the New World in Marienburg, and bartering with hard faced Arabians in Magritta.

The people of Miragliano worship Manann, God of the Seas, and Verena, Goddess of Learning and Justice. It is a city of merchant seamen and great learning centers and culture, a crossroads where great cultures of the Old World and the Southlands and the Easternlands meet. Here can be found great libraries, theaters, and the great trading houses. You will find scholars, nobles, and rough seamen traveling the same canals, and in the great plazas debating all manner of subjects. The city is ruled by the Grand Doge and a council made up of the heads of the Great Trading Houses and Guilds. The city is second only to Magritta as a trading center and as a sea power, its fast trading ships and warships can be found in all areas where mankind does business by sea.