Description
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:08 pm
Population: 2,700
Social Class: Upper/middle class
Character: Upperscale industrial, very busy and bustling with activity
District Type: Industrial district
Buildings: Faction headquarters, average residences, average lodgings, exotic trades, average trades, upscale services, average services, poor services
First Impression: The massive Armory dominates the Armory District, a military fortress in the middle of this bustling, busy section of the ward. The presence of life and business here is very apparent, unlike many other places in the ward.
The district surrounding the Armory has always been a spot of contention among Lady’s Ward residents, some claiming passionately that the Armory and the neighborhoods surrounding it belong in the Lower Ward, while others have cried out with equal vehemence that it is, and always has been, part of The Lady’s Ward.
The contention arose in the past to the general appearance of the Armory with its smoke belching forges and razorvine encrusted lower portions, and to the seedy neighborhoods that arose around it. The Doomguard, in their philosophical disagreement with the Harmonium, and to a lesser extent the Mercykillers and Fraternity of Order, made life difficult around their faction headquarters for the Harmonium and their allies. Hence, the Harmonium patrolled the district less and less, crime rose and knights of the post sprung from the woodwork. This did not bode well for its status in the eyes of the Golden Lords and power brokers in The Lady’s Ward.
This has always been a sour spot for the patrons of the Golden Bariaur Inn. This inn at the very spireward end of the district, roughly three blocks from the shadow of the Armory, is a frequent and popular spot for celestials of all alignments, as well as for the occasional fiends from the Lower Ward who stop in to make trouble.
In contrast however, situated between Cobbles Lane and Doomguard Walk, next to the Park of the Infernal and the Divine stands the silver bladed, black stone, Temple of the Abyss. Typically festooned with the previous nights sacrificial victims, the temple is only tolerated by many of the ward simply because of the number of nobles who’ve done business therein. It has a reputation of solving problems one way or another.
