Tarianor

Tarianor is known as THE place to have your ship built, as the finest shipwrights make their way to this small island and its growing city. The city itself borrows heavily from Lorimorian architecture, and is a marvel in itself.

The fabled Floating City of Tarianor is the greatest shipyard in the whole of the Torue Albes, if not the world. It is more akin to an island than a city, however. This marvel of engineering was the fevered dream of Captain Eddy Bloodkelp, a Gnome pirate who never had much luck due to her greater interest in nautical engineering than combat and pillaging. After her prey escaped when her ship ran aground on a huge stretch of coral reef, she had a wild vision of a seaport built upon that very reef. It would be a floating island, one that could raise anchor and drift wherever it pleased, or to wherever the most ships happened to be going.

She gathered what was left of her desperate crew and managed to inflame them with her vision. With their combined skills at shipbuilding and engineering, and perhaps a little help from magic, they started work. It took five long years—and the coffers of dozens of equally fevered investors—but finally, the Floating City was open for business.

It was a runaway success. The Queen of Dallak made an offer to turn the Floating City into a proper city of the Torue Albes and declare it the royal shipyard. Eddy would become richer than any pirate and, after leaving much of the daily operations to her first mate, spent her days experimenting on new engineering projects.

Tarianor is now the most valuable shipyard in all the world. The war galleons of Lorimor and the Albesian Royal Navy are produced here, along with vessels for other commercial interests (the Gnome crew still retain a piratical bent, and are generally open to special contracts with no questions asked). It can even act as transportation, ferrying groups with only small riverboats across dangerous open waters to destinations along the western coasts of the continent.