Bleakwind

Behold the cold, Bleakwind!


Over 30 structures, meticulously detailed, inside and out.

You arrive as everyone does to this frozen fortress, aboard a ship. It's not as if anyone could walk or swim here without succumbing to the elements. Isolated on the peninsula of a frostbitten tundra island, Bleakwind endures. The city towers far above the surrounding sea. Ships arrive at port to supply the bare necessities the windswept wasteland lacks, and are loaded with Bleakwind's signature export, coal.

Bleakwind got its name from the first fortunate crew to survive to tell of this forsaken place. The crew aboard The Mineko set sail into the harshest storm seen for over a decade. The howling winds pushed their uncontrollable vessel far further than expected, running aground just barely offshore. The masts of their ship can still be seen poking above the surface to this day, sending a clear warning to incoming seafarers of the hidden dangers lurking below. The crew escaped their predicament, bobbing in a lifeboat; this doubled as a makeshift shelter once they reached the shore. Without their dinghy and the surface coal deposits they discovered beneath the snowy surface, the crew would have perished in this inhospitable place. By burning their newly found fortune in coal, our harrowing sailors were able to signal an SOS to a passing ship. The makeshift dock constructed for the rescue would later be returned to by entrepreneurs looking to exploit the untapped reserves of natural resources. How long will these resources last? We'll surely find out someday. Until then, the exports have allowed for explosive growth in The Market, as well as population, and the infrastructure of the environment. Today, the spires reach high above the land that provided for them, and the shivering people are packed onto the peninsula.