Senchal Lore and Layout

[Ja-Kha'jay]

Senchal is the port city of southern Elsweyr:


PGE1:

This infamous city is the largest port in southern Tamriel. Its sprawl covers the easternmost tip of Elsweyr's Quin'rawl peninsula, a motley assortment of bazaars, taverns, merchant quarters, and open-air markets ringed on three sides by its crowded harbors. Senchal is a favorite stopping point for pirates and sea captains seeking to ply illegal or blackmarket goods, it being far easier to smuggle these goods into and out of the Empire by way of the Topal Sea than to use the well-guarded inland highways. Thieves abound here, as do beggars and pathetic khajiit sugar junkies. The traveler is advised to steer clear of Black Keirgo, Senchal's most squalid and dangerous quarter, when visiting the city. Illicit sugar-dens line the streets here, where beastmen and nobility alike wither away in sucrose fevers. All in all, Senchal is the ugliest city outside of Imperial jurisdiction. The air is humid and full of the chimney-smoke caught in the eddies from the surrounding coasts. Much of the city is abandoned or in ruins. In CE560, a strain of the Knahaten Flu blew across the channel from nearby Argonia and quickly infected the city's population. Whole neighborhoods were razed in some mad effort to cleanse Senchal of the Flu and have never been rebuilt. Visitors to the open-air markets can see these charred skylines on the periphery, as black and jagged as the teeth of the nearest sugar junkie, begging for cake.

The harbor city of Senchal, long considered one of the most dangerous slums in Tamriel, has had a remarkable renaissance, from principle port of the drug trade, to coastal resort for wealthy, powerful Khajiit. That glimmer of good news belies the fact that the moonsugar trade in Elsweyr has increased multifold in the last twenty years. Ya'Tirrje, the Gold Cat, is rumored to even have a luxurious villa in Senchal, and helps pay for the abundant security that keeps the city safe and crime-free, all the while continuing his drug-smuggling business in Torval, Corinthe, and Rimmen.

Anyway here is a quick draft of a possible layout:
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb249...layout.jpg

And a concept fo the Gold Cats Villa:
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb249...estate.jpg

Other places of note:
Potentate's Palace. Located in the Black Keirgo district of old Senchal the Senchal King rules with absolutely no power. He only reason he does not try to kick the Gold Cat out is well the Gold Cat owns the entire city, and the King will become a beggar if the Gold Cat every saw him as a threat. The king has let the palace go, the floors are grimy, the dome has partially collapsed and tapesties are torn. The King spends most of his time high as a kite in skoomaland.
So far the Potentates palace looks like this:
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb249...palace.jpg
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb249...lace04.jpg

Black Keirgo. This district is the scum bucket of Tamriel. Walled off completely from the rest of the city, the people that live here are beggars and addicts alike. banned from the rest of the city, their existance is denied by those in the middle and upper class districts of New Senchal.

[shewter]

That looks gr8 JK! :goodjob: