Old Town (Avemroth)

The district originally known as Abenbury includes the old city docks and the City Temple, the government center and financial district for the growing city of Avemroth. As Abenbury’s influence spread and subsumed other settlements on the island, the city took on the island’s name, and the port shifted from industrial commerce to commercial fishing. With time and colloquial usage, Abenbury became known simply as ‘Old Town.’

Over the millennia, the city's wealthy elite rebuilt much of Old Town's residential and commercial areas to attract tourists from the other Free Cities. This included erecting buildings in varying shades of blue, converting the old city docks nearest the river into seafront taverns, paving roads along both sides of the river up to the Kekhinim Temple and building taverns, amphitheaters, stages, and parks along the Riverwalk, and allowing the establishment of a formal market square complete with legal casinos and brothels.

With its heavy emphasis on tourism, Old Town is one of the safest districts in the city—at least outdoors—and represents about 7 percent of the city's resident population, largely composed of officers and adjuncts of the temples, low level government bureaucracy, and managers, workers, and . Even the prostitutes and barwenches of Old Town rank among the city's middle class due to their patronage.

Places of Interest

Downtown

City Temple

The City Temple or “Old City Temple” was the first temple apart from the temple of Averae on the island. Originally a multi-denominational temple to all of the gods, the sprawling complex now includes the Sanctuary for minor shrines to each of the gods, the Temple of Justice, the Althing or Temple of the City Guild, the Treasury (the city’s stock and commodities exchange and headquarters of the merchant guild), and the City Plaza, where a herald proclaims and posts the city news of the morning.

The City Temple sits just south of the Riverwalk where it overlaps with Light Street and north of Temple Street.