Ainsword

Ainsword, now the most populous of Norrilund's districts, lies along the Saron River's east bank, between the city center and the docks. The district is highly industrial, with many factories and plants located along the riverbank, and is the site of Norrilund's primary dockyards. This is still a new district and considered quite flash by the working class. The area is poor, but the quality of the place has been improving as wages have increased and more middle-class families move in to find cheaper housing. Nearly all the homes in the newer neighborhoods of Faraday, Lime, and Wintergreen are built to "row home" style, with long rows of townhouses connected one after the other down the roads. The main features of the districts are the massive Ainsword Commons and the Tashakda and Seu Kal Docks in the Docktown neighborhood.
The very poor are crammed into the rookeries and tenements of the district, and most of these are situated near the bevy of railway lines that wind through Ainsword. A spur of the Norrilund Metropolitain Railway circles the district, just inland from the riverbank. Numerous stations allow easy access to all parts of the district. Steam trains run on a parallel line between the docks and Niblick Railyards to the south. The rumble of trains is constant. The worst rookeries in the district can be found south of the Ainsword Railyards in Lime, and in the dark alleys off Cecil Street in Mulyard. The slums are relatively large, but the landlords cram as many people as possible into them.
As with other poorer neighborhoods, the high roads see more middle-class housing and business fronts. Deans Highway, Queens Road and Newbury Road are buy thoroughfares with department stores, restaurants and public houses, and other shops. 
==Neighborhoods==
Passing through Ainsword from the city center towards the docks, one encounters several quite similar neighborhoods in succession. First is Mulyard, followed by Whitesmead and Wintergreen, before reaching the neighborhood of Ainsword, where Ainsword Commons is found. Continuing on from Ainsword one passes through Lime before coming finally to Docktown. Just southeast of Docktown is the run-down neighborhood of Saltdown. Island Road briefly passes through the far southern corner of the district, in the neighborhood of Faraday.
Category:Locations in Norrilund
Category:Districts of Norrilund