Gwennport
Gwennport is the capital of the Artipellin Kingdom. It is a beautiful city located on the edge of the sea, with some mansions close by on the archipelago, mixed with a few fortifications against seafaring invasions.
Exports
As the capital, Gwennport is the biggest exporter of goods from Artipellin. The city's principal exports are of art in different forms, the finest glass in the Realms and a variety of smoked and salted local fish. The city is also known for having an higher-than-average amount of mystics. Both the charlatan types as well as the genuine deal.
Art
Besides the 'invention' of masks originating in the Gwennport carnival, artful items such as busts, statues, paintings, tapestries, clothes and household items such as glasses, cutlery and plates are part of the main export from Artipellin. Caravans travelling with these shipments often come with a whole squadron of guards, Artipellin or mercenaries. Any respectable house has a minor fortune invested in ancient and modern art alike.
Gwennport and indeed Artipellin as a whole is also known for its love of music and theatre, and to some extent this is 'exported', but it isn't a major economical asset.
Glass
Though not as 'high profile' as the art, Artipellin's greater export is of very high quality glass, similar to Venetian glass in medieval Europe. The secret is kept tightly by the Gwennport Glass Crafter's Guild and is sold only as finished products. Other crafters can recycle the material to create new advanced glass creation such as lenses or pieces of art, but rarely as skilled as the crafters in Gwennport.
That said, several crafters from Gwennport have been allowed to start chapter guilds in other major Artipellin cities, creating equally skillefully made products, but not allowed to create the glass, instead relying on transportation of glass ingots from Gwennport. Gwenport glass is only made in the guild quarters of Gwennport.
Places
These are mainly notes, and not necessarily particularly famous places.
- Establishments
- Gilded Cup - Mainly a restaurant, but also has suites for the very wealthy. A regular joint for the rich and a treat for the want-to-be-rich.
- Golden Cockerel - Sometimes referred to as the "Golden Cock", the Golden Cockerel is the finest in in Gwennport with a famous kitchen.
- Barmy Barrow - By Ramiro Osborne. Known as "Galne Galten" by the locals, the Barmy Barrow is located in a decent part of Gwennport, though certainly far from the finest establishments.
Characters
- Artipellin - Royal family
- Tidmore - Merchant family
Gwennport Merchants
- Bakers 28
- Barbers 58
- Bathers 13
- Beer-sellers 18
- Blacksmiths 7
- Bleachers 11
- Bookbinders 7
- Booksellers 1
- Buckle Makers 13
- Butchers 16
- Carpenters 44
- Chandlers 34
- Chicken Butchers 11
- Coopers 23
- Copyists 10
- Cutlers 6
- Doctors 15
- Fishmongers 11
- Furriers 81
- Glovemakers 10
- Harness-makers 3
- Hatmakers 26
- Hay Merchants 4
- Illuminators 7
- Inns 3
- Jewelers 31
- Locksmiths 11
- Magic Shops 7
- Maidservants 106
- Masons 16
- Mercers 31
- Old Clothes 26
- Painters 16
- Pastrycooks 26
- Plasterers 9
- Pursemakers 16
- Roofers 4
- Ropemakers 6
- Rugmakers 11
- Saddlers 10
- Scabbardmakers 22
- Sculptors 8
- Shoemakers 168
- Spice Merchants 18
- Tailors 81
- Tanners 4
- Taverns 17
- Watercarriers 28
- Weavers 43
- Wine-sellers 27
- Woodcarvers 8
- Woodsellers 9