Kruiersmuur (Porter's Wall)

Known locations and landmarks:

• Tarnopol's Clocktower
• The Rusty Barnacle Inn
• Deedesveld Cemetary
• Smuggler's Caves
• Dmitri's Apothecary

There are several working-class neighbourhoods in Marienburg, places where the average man and woman have regular jobs and make enough to live with some small comfort and security. Kruiersmuur ('Porter's wall') is the oldest such area in the city occupied mostly by artisans and shopkeepers. Like most of Marienburg, the buildings are tall and narrow usually two or three stories above a ground floor business. The shop owners typically live on the floor above their businesses, while the floor or floors above are rented out.

Time and progress haven't been kind to Kruiersmuur. The south side of Marienburg has been gradually declining for some time - more and more trade has moved to the wards north of the Rijksweg, and the people have gone with it. While the windows still sport flower boxes and the locals go to the neighbourhood churches each Festag, Kruiersmuur is decaying around the edges. The paint is peeling on the eaves and shutters, and graffiti mars the walls. Though the people here are typical

Marienburgers – friendly, quick-witted, always hustling for a guilder - the residents of Kruiersmuur are oppressed by the thought that luck is against them, and that if things are ever going to get better, they'll get worse first.

One thing that weighs heavily on the minds of Kruiersmuur’s residents is the changing nature of the ward itself - as people move out, more and more "outlanders" are moving in, making the area seem less and less like Marienburg. No less than three foreign ghettos fall under the ward council's jurisdiction.

The Remeans and the Miraglianese are constantly at odds, and their brawls keep the Kruiersmuur Watch busy on many a night. The southeast has become known as "Little Bretonnia" or "Garlic-town" for the culinary preferences and breath of the residents and at the furthest end of the ward are the Halflings of Kleinmoot in the neighbouring Winkelmarkt. Kruiersmuurers prefer them to any of the human foreigners; both for their sensible attitudes and for the buffer they provide with the dying

Doodkanaal district.