“Nobody comes to Gravesend on purpose.” (local saying)
The largest city on the Drowned Coast and the mouth of the Blackwater River. Everything that comes to the coast by sea comes through Gravesend: cargo, sailors, immigrants, and whatever else the ships carry that isn’t on the manifest.
What everyone knows
- The waterfront never sleeps. Warehouses, chandlers, flophouses, and bars that open when the night shift ends.
- The fog rolls in most evenings and doesn’t lift until mid-morning. Dockworkers navigate by bell and lantern.
- The police are underpaid and overstretched, and many of them are on someone’s payroll.
- The river barges run inland to Blackwater Reach day and night.
Rumors
- Bodies pulled from the harbor are sometimes buried before the coroner sees them.
- Some of the old pilings under the east docks are older than the city.
Case files set here
None yet.