The Poor Quarter



The Southeastern Quarter of Nairu is now popularly called the Poor Quarter. Characterised by many small workshops, dingy houses, large unhygenic tenements and streets crowded with hovels and lean-tos, the Poor Quarter is considered irredeemable now by most political and social organisations. Most of their focus now is on keeping the crime levels down and restricted to the quarter.

Spice Pots
Spice Pots gets its name from the pots of fragrant smelling spices littering the ground around the Potts Brewery and their attached tavern, the Spicy Brew. The Potts brewery was one of the first to open in Nairu, in the first decade after the discovery of Nairu. Several other trades buildings are here, as well as the guild of Spice Potts Amalgamated Metals. Between Spice Pots and Blood Runs are the Lawkeeper's Office and the Laundry Guild - hardly considered part of the quarter at all, since many of its citizens avoid these places.

The Flies and Little Market
By far the dirtiest and dingiest part of the Poor Quarter, with the most overpopulation. Several small guildhouses hide this suburb from the main road of the Circuit. At the heart of The Flies is Little Market, which unlike the major Market of the Merchant Quarter, holds mostly black market goods and cheap, low-quality wares.

The Scales
Named for the high population of green-skinned beings that occupy this suburb, The Scales is filled with many citizens who are trying to escape a life of crime, though failing. Gangs of youth bind together, and only end up reinforcing the racist perceptions they seek to rebel against, leading them to greater acts of crime. For the most part their parents seek a better life for their children, but no matter how hard they work, green-skinned people seem to have a hard life in Nairu.

Blood Runs
So named because of the occasional trails of blood running from the Arena, this quarter sees some of the greatest violence as it attracts the worst kinds of criminal and adventurers. They seek the fame and fortune only the Arena can grant.