BlackSun Squats – A tentament and shanty town built on the western docks of escaped slaves and refugees. It is a filthy and dangerous place, run by the Black Sun Guild, an “investment guild and
charitable orginzation” that is little more than organized crime.

The Grand Market of Wa – Originally the market for goods from the east. This large and boisterousward has become the largest market in the world. Anything and everything is for sale here if you can take
the time to find it. Not suprising it is full of merchants, shopkeepers, and others like bakers and foodstalls.

The Slave Market of Darkmoor – This is the Ward that contains the Grand Slave bazaar and is near the docks. The few nonslaves that live here support the market and the trades around it like tattooing
and blacksmithing, as well as the gladiator hall, and the forbidden pleasure palaces, where the most forbidden fruits of pleasure can be found supplied by the Kol Clan and their slaves.

The Silver Bend –A residential ward, this Ward resembles a small town rather than a Ward inside a large city. The people tend to keep to themselves, and try to do just do business “locally”. Its Warden is
usually rotated among the key families that have the most money and own the most property. A more “typical” place in this city with its own small market, crafthalls, and grocers. It is relatively safe as the
Bend Watch keeps order, and the Warden holds court once a month. They are taxed fairly heavily and strangers are not welcome.

Torcello – Torcello is an example of the outer islands. Most of the island is dominated by two or three powerful families (the Castines and Thulden-Myers) that farm the lush hills producing some of the best
wines and sweet syrupy cordials, the latter often laced with essence of poppies. Most of the work on the mega plantations is actually done by slaves, but the families employ a few skilled freemen who live in the
small multicolored villages in the bays. There they also fish, ship the goods of the wineries, and watch the sun go up and down lazily smoking their cigarillos and counting time by the seasons not the days.

Gryfon’s Erie – Gryfon’s Erie is a small uptrhust of rock near the Great Market of Wa. Like all things in the city, it has been built upon. It has steep sloping sides, but that did not stop the Gryfon family from
establishing this Ward generations ago. The current Warden is the Baroness Ythena, a Vu who married the late Warden. There are no elections in this Ward, the head of the Gryfon Family is also the Warden and ruler of this small Ward. It has no courtyards, just a dozen tightly packed narrow streets that snake there way up around the upthrust bedrock. It is known for its textiles, tailors, and dressmakers. All of the business are either owned by the Gryfon Family, or the merchants pay rents and taxes to it. At the top is
a large Shin shrine dedicated to the Kami of the Upthrust, and across from it the largest building in the Ward, the Torro de Gryfon, twin squat towers that are the residence of the Gryfon family. Recently, a
rice wine brewery has been opened as well taking advantage of the pure water that comes from a spring at the top of the upthurst. Besides the primary industries there are also local goods and grocers as well as drinking holes and bakeries for the residents. There are no charges to go in and out of the Ward, and order is kept by the Gryfon’s Claws, a band of about 30 warrior retainers of the Baroness.