The Brunwasser Kanal is one of the few channels deep enough to handle the many ocean-going vessels that visit Marienburg. For almost a mile, both sides of the Brunwasser are lined with docks, warehouses, counting houses, mercantile offices, shipyards, taverns, and brothels. This waterfront is Suiddock - the heart of Marienburg, and the crossroads of the world. It is said that everyone and everything that moves into and out of the Old World passes through Suiddock at some point. This includes adventurers.
ARRIVING
The Suiddock is an ideal place for a band of adventurers to begin finding out about Marienburg. Precisely how you go about getting your adventurers to the Suiddock depends on how they travel to Marienburg. If they arrive by boat, it is almost inevitable that their first landing will be in the Suiddock. Both sea and river traffic end up in somewhere in the huge docklands. If they arrive by the Middenheim road, they will almost certainly enter Marienburg through the Oostenpoort Gate. Most of the coach services end at depots on the edge of the Suiddock, where land is cheap and the Teamsters' Guild is not far away. This gives the adventurers a trip right across the city from north to south, over canals and across bridges, as they marvel at the size of the place. If the adventurers arrive by road from Bretonnia, they will enter through the Westenpoort Gate, which leads onto the Suiddock itself.
And finally, if the adventurers are Marienburgers born and bred, they will know that the Suiddock is the area to start a life of adventure. Lower-class types may well have grown up there, and others might well check out the docklands in the hope of taking ship to some far flung and exotic corner of the world.
THE LIE OF THE LAND
As we've already said, the Suiddock is the area to either
side of a mile-long stretch of the Brunwasser Kanal. The north
bank of the Brunwasser is made up of three main islands: Luydenhoek,
Stoessel, and Riddra, from east to west. Connected to Luydenhoek
by the Nederbrug bridge is Hightower Isle, built up to form the
footing of one end of the spectacular Hoogbrug bridge.
The oldest part of the Suiddock is in the west, by Riddra and
the western half of Stoessel. Over time, the docks have expanded
eastwards and upriver, and the largest and most modern docks
are in the part known as the Luydenhoek Stretch, or Down East.
This is where most of the real business of Suiddock is done,
and Riddra and its surrounding districts have become a run-down
maze of slums, where only the locals feel truly at home.
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