• Population: ~400,000 (City Proper), ~1,000,000 (Local Area)
• Nicknames: The Harbor of a Thousand Sails, Southern Trade Capital
• Primary Race(s): Common Humanoids
• Location: The Free Lands
• Leadership: The Council of Five Nobles
• Known For: Maritime Trade, Manufactured Goods, Textiles, Bards College

Freeport is a coastal metropolis where coin rules as surely as any lord. Its crowded docks, teeming markets, and towering stone walls mark it as a gateway between sea and inland trade. Power rests with merchant councils, mercenary companies, and underground syndicates, each vying for influence. Freeport thrives on commerce, ambition, and quiet corruption; law exists, but it bends easily to wealth and leverage. Adventurers, exiles, and opportunists alike are drawn to its promise of fortune, knowing that in Freeport survival depends less on virtue than on wit, alliances, and the strength to defend what you claim.

Freeport Sigil:

An ancient cosmopolitan costal city. One of the few cities that did not fall to the hordes of Feng during the times of his ascendency. The city has exploded in size and influence in the centuries since Feng was cast down by the Chosen. One of the wealthiest and most influential cities in the eastern world. It's Navy and Merchant Fleet allows Freeport to project its influence throughout the Corsair Seas and Freeland territories.

The Grand Docks are the beating commercial heart of Freeport. Cargo, sailors, merchants, and smugglers all crowd the harbor, and wealth changes hands as quickly as secrets.

The Old Wall is a remnant of Freeport’s earliest fortifications. Its towers and battlements have been repurposed for housing, storage, and small businesses. A museum dedicated to the original defense of the City by the Chosen can be found here. The ancient core of Old Freeport, where trade, politics, finance, and long tradition all meet in crowded streets and marble halls.

Highcrest is home to Freeport’s wealthiest families and most influential estates. It is beautiful, guarded, and full of private schemes. Travel to this district is discourages if one has no business or “does not fit in”.

Lowmarket is the city’s public heart: a district of taverns, forges, courts, workers, and adventurers. It is rougher than the noble wards, but far more honest.

The Crimson Lantern District is the city’s quarter of vice and criminal opportunity, where bright lights conceal dangerous bargains.

The Temple District lies in the southeastern city, centered around an ancient circular marble plaza older than the Council itself. Worship of many gods is practices here, though Feng and Vinnin worship is outlawed. Grand temples stand beside modest chapels representing a wide range of faiths. Religious festivals and charitable works are common. The district also serves as an informal meeting ground for religious and civic leaders.

Freeport is a wealthy port city whose economy is driven by trade, shipping, tariffs, warehousing, and skilled manufacturing. Positioned along the Scarlet River and near the Corsair Seas, it profits from both inland and maritime commerce. Merchants, guilds, and shipping interests dominate public life, while dock laborers, craftsmen, and caravan traffic keep the city moving. Yet its prosperity is uneven, and legal enterprise often exists beside smuggling, bribery, and criminal influence.

• Primary Industries: Textiles, Shipbuilding, Manufactured Goods
• Trade Partners: The Winterlands, The Burning Sea, The Corsair Seas, Dwarven Holds, The Free Lands
• Currency: Standard

One of the few Cities able to resist the forces of Feng during the Shattered Age, Freeport found itself an in ideal position to thrive once the reign of the Dark God ended. Positioned on the Sea and main trade river of the Free Lands, Freeport exploded as a trade and merchant city. It's society is reflected in this strong mercantile and entrepreneural spirit.

The City is a hard-edged port city culture shaped by trade, ambition, and constant motion. Merchants, sailors, nobles, laborers, and criminals all crowd its streets, giving the city a worldly, suspicious, and energetic character. Wealth and refinement exist beside poverty and vice, and public life is driven as much by reputation and influence as by law. Its people value practicality, boldness, and wit, and while the city can seem cynical, it also rewards resilience, opportunity, and those clever enough to seize them.

Lady Seranna Deymar

The Freeport Navy is a disciplined maritime force built to protect trade, hunt pirates, and project the city’s power across nearby seas. Modeled on rigid hierarchy, drilled gunnery, and relentless patrol duty, its officers are expected to be polished professionals while its sailors endure harsh discipline, hard labor, and long deployments. Its ships are fast, heavily armed, and meant as much to intimidate as to fight. To merchants, the navy is a shield against chaos; to smugglers and corsairs, it is an unforgiving presence of steel, canvas, and law on the horizon. Led by Admiral Alice Summerville, the Navy has recently undergone expansion and modernization in response to the growing threat of piracy and The Triad in the Corsair Seas.

Freeport Navy on Anti-Piracy Duty

Admiral Summerville

The mercenary company that acts as both the main military and peacekeeping force of Freeport. The Iron Circle is a hardened mercenary brotherhood that serves as both standing army and civic enforcer for the city. Known for brutal discipline, polished armor, and an uncompromising chain of command, they patrol the streets, guard the gates, and crush unrest before it can spread. To some, they are the shield that keeps order in a dangerous world; to others, they are little better than paid soldiers with legal authority. Their loyalty is to coin, command, and the stability of the city above all else.

Commander Portyr

The Thieves’ Guild of Freeport is a quiet but deeply rooted criminal network that thrives beneath the city’s trade and splendor. Smugglers, burglars, fences, blackmailers, and informants all feed into its web, making it less a single gang than a shadow economy woven through the harbor, markets, and alleys. The guild prefers profit over chaos, and its leaders understand that fear, favors, and discretion are often worth more than open bloodshed. In Freeport, many locks, ledgers, and secrets ultimately answer to the guild’s unseen hand.

Guildmaster Nine-fingers

Guildhall

The Bardic College of Freeport is the largest bardic school in the world and the grandest institution dedicated to Lady Corinette. Joined to her great temple in the Temple District, it is a center of music, poetry, dance, rhetoric, and courtly performance. Students and masters come from across the world to study there, seeking fame, refinement, and patronage. Its halls shape not only artists, but diplomats, chroniclers, spies, and voices of faith, making the college one of the most influential cultural institutions in all civilized lands.

Integrated into to the school itself is the Hall of Lady Corinette, the largest temple to the Goddess in the known world.