![]() We should also note that the Stormkeep known as the Consecralium is located on a promotory of the city's bay, not far from the Harbor it is one of three Stormkeeps of the city and is home to the White Angels of the Knights Excelsior who are politely known as the 'Most Zealous Sons of Sigmar' especially if one is in a hundred mile radius of the speaker the angular fortress is covered in holes from which ballistae and cannons fires in times of crisis. The Harbor is one of the great prides of Excelsis, boasting immense dockyards and berths where redbark and ironoak great galleys can be found nestled side by side with barrel-shaped Duardin steam-cogs, the great wolf-ships of Arika Zenthe (the Aelven Scourge Fleetmaster who is more or less recognized as the official master of the Harbor and whose privateer fleet raids all along the Coast of Tusks), swift Aelven trading vessels known as tidecutters, Scyllan shellships (massive crustaceans used as sailing vessels) and many more ships besides. And of course, it is the district most at threat of flooding during the heavy rainy seasons and entire regiments are sent in to quell riots that occur during such floods. As is so often the case many hospices have sprung up in the Veins, typically the endeavors of those with more charitable or greedy natures than the coin or sense needed to make such facilities function. It is in the Veins that many failed fortune seekers, desperate citizens, refugees and cast offs find themselves in. These slums, for there is truly no other term they can rightly be named by, are named after how narrow and labyrinthine their alleyway streets are. The Veins are the result of this pragmatism, tightly packed multi-storied townhouses are tightly squeezed together from the eastern wall to the western wall. pragmatic decisions when it came to construction. Unlike other residential districts Squallside has a fair number of large, well-maintained cart lanes lit by marrowpitch torches.But it's swift growth has not been a boon to everyone who chooses to migrate to Excelsis, as once the city began outgrowing its own defenses it's architects made a few. Excelsis, much like it's peers Hammerhal and other prestigious great cities, is far too large and expansive to cover it's every district in the detail they deserve, so we will discuss a few of the most prominient ones.Excelsis is a large, thriving economic hub with a growing middle class of merchants and craftsmen who live it districts such as Squallside the buildings of Squallside are carved from blue-black stormstone with slate roofs to cover them, these buildings were made to last and weather the worst that the Coast of Tusks has to offer.
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