Dockside Salve Stall is a tight, lantern-warmed nook carved into Heathdun’s working waterfront—a small pocket of commerce and craft hemmed in by timber posts, stacked barrels, and the ever-present slap of water below.
Harbor Market & Lift Gantry is a crowded cliffside dock market wedged into a narrow shelf of stone and timber, where every open span has been claimed by stalls, storage, and swinging lines.
Lift Platform & Winch Yard clings to the cliff like a scar of industry—an exposed cargo shelf where salt wind howls through rigging and every plank creaks with strain.
“The light doesn’t stop the storm. It stops the loss.”
“The sea doesn’t give gifts. It trades—usually for blood.”
“Salt stings because it cleans. The sea doesn’t hate you—it just refuses to lie.”
“Everything has a price. In Heathdun, the storm sets it first.”
“If it holds in a storm, it holds for anything. If it doesn’t—don’t stand under it.”
A feathered nightmare with a widow’s patience—she doesn’t hunt for sport, she hunts to keep her nest warm and full.
A knee-high terror with quick hands and quicker exits—he doesn’t win fights, he wins messes.
A lean, sharp-eyed road-butcher who can smell a full pantry from half a mile away—and who never leaves a witness with both hands intact.
A corpse-fat brute with a cookpot halo of iron who drags a dinner bell through the mud—ringing it only when the screaming starts.