Port Ledeau

Perched on the far western tip of Coreune, the great city of Port Ledeau is known for its strong tradition in the thaumaturgical sciences. It is a huge city with all the appearances of a mountain built row upon row and street upon street upward from the crowded waterfront. Here and there the spires and spikes of churches and towers rise above the rust-colored tile roofs of humbler dwellings, and among them are the blocky whitestone structures encircled by palisades of dark iron, homes of prosperous merchants, or powerful students of the arcane. Just along the wharfs, the smoke of the sprawling factories is quickly swept away by strong ocean winds while everywhere whitewashed buildings gleam in the sun whenever the clouds break.
The extensive Port Ledeau waterfront is every bit as busy as those of Coreune's other great port cities, Vaultier and Caldon. Steam-powered lifts and dockyard mechanisms labor among the docks conveying endless supplies and crated goods along the thoroughfares and down to the paddlewheel steamships and heavily laden galleons with their broad flapping standards and sails. Vessels of every tonnage, rig, and calling populate the bay that also serves as one of the Coreunean Navy's major shipyards. Hence the masts, spars, and stacks of several warships are seen here at any given time.
Port Ledeau is also known for its innovative public transportation system based upon the merging of horse-drawn carriages with mills and railways. Railcoaches extend from practically one end of the city to the other. These long carriages are fixed upon rails and are moved along by metal cables propelled through a series of steam-driven shafts in various powerhouses throughout the city. Horse-drawn carriages remain plentiful throughout Port Ledeau, but the masses have quickly taken to "hopping the rail" to move about the city.
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