Overview
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One of the major cities of The Riding, primarily known for its mammoth stone bridge that crosses the Green River. |
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Background
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Location of Highbridge on the Green |
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- Governor Adelaide du Eagleroost - The Polonian Governor of Highbridge. She is installed in the tower on Baron's isle and is responsible for the governance of the city.
- Chancellor Gascard de Gravenford - The Southern Mercantile Company's Chancellor in the Highbridge Administrative District, His quarters are located in the Docks.
- Master Nicolas du Ravenscroft, Gascard's chief lieutenant and heads up day-to-day operations on the Docks.
- Herbert de Harecove, Gascard's head clerk and responsible for handling most paperwork on the Docks.
- Captain Warrane du Houndstrail, oversees the City Constabulary and captains the Legionnaires installed in the city, stationed in the Baron's Grounds.
- Jacques de Lambfield, Exalted Priest of Tiamat and the Governor's primary advisor.
Riding Folk
- Constable Harbuck, the Riding Chief Constable, the City Constabulary is located in the Narrows adjacent to Top Butcher.
- High Priests Imdurr and Lymura, the head priests of Amaunator, located in Morningglow Temple in Temple Park.
Geography
The city itself is divided into a handful of different sections.
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The Baron's Grounds primarily consists of barracks, a small parade ground, a courthouse, and a handful of support and administrative buildings for the soldiers stationed there. At the current time, it also is occupied primarily by Polonian legionnaires that are stationed here in order to ensure stability in the region. At any time, as many as 200 legionnaires are stationed here and on Baron's Isle.
The Farthing Yards
The Yards themselves serve as the common market and city center, as well as the location at which caravans load, unload and gather before and after journeys. Town criers typically shout their news here and posters and handbills are tacked throughout. None of the buildings in the Farthing Yards are allowed to be permanent although some of the stalls and shopfronts located in the Yards have occupied the same location for many years.
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The southernmost gates of the city, the ones that allow access to the Trade Road as it winds upriver are the dominant feature of the Farthing Yards. Other gates lead out of the Yards, including a smaller gate that leads to the Merchant Quarter and a larger gate that allows access to the Trade Road as it continues northward, running under the high wall of the Old City and separating the Old City from the Docks.
The Farthing Yards got got their name either because citizens looking for work would be hired for small jobs for farthings or because the farthing was the most typical coin used in transactions in the open markets located here rather than the higher priced transactions that took place in the Merchant's Quarter or elsewhere.
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