===== The Tarnish =====

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Along the docks toward the south side of the City, the smell of salt and brine gives way to acid and sulfur. Smoke and smog of the foundries cloud the air, and the rust-stained streets run red, giving this neighborhood its name: **Tarnish**.

Under smoke-bent gables, palsied carcasses of houses lean against each other — languid, broken, awaiting the peace of collapse into the thick, rancid waters of the harbor below. In many places, sections of the boardwalks have fallen away completely, leaving gaping holes that expose polluted waters.



==== Tarnish Neighborhoods ====

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=== Smuggler’s Run ====

Just inside the busy South Gate is Southyard Court, a crowded courtyard filled with shops, carts, and peddlers’ wagons surrounding a famous festhall. Behind the busy courtyard, a narrow oil-slicked alley of overcrowded rowhouses are built over old smugglers’ tunnels leading to the waterfront. Grim, dark, buildings lean out over the streets in the shadow of the city walls.


=== Southshore ===

The streets of this slum are constantly flooded, and the buildings are half-sunken into the harbor. The neighborhood has earned the nickname **Flotsam** due to the debris swept ashore on the oily sands of the south beach.


=== Sambril Lane ===

The massive timbered **Butcher’s Guildhall** dominates the neighborhood. In the center of the neighborhood is a maze of warehouses, workshops, and laboratories within a single massive building, known as [[sted:jungle|The Jungle]]. Thick layers of soot coat every visible surface, and communal fires are kept burning in the streets near alley entrances.


=== Tower Watch ===

Also known as **Slaughterhouse**, the tannery neighborhood is cloaked in the smell of acid and offal, and the cobblestone streets are stained red with blood.

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