The Shambles

The Shambles is the most commonly used name for the disorderly, sprawling shanty-town which has sprung up outside the walls of Torrune north of the Low City. It is mostly inhabited by poor and dispossessed refugees from Dranuria, Sularia, and the Sornele who fled east into Rhydain following Gol Garga's invasions of their homelands. Significant numbers of such people first arrived at Torrune in 1244 CV, eleven years before the present day and two years after the orcish horde advanced eastwards from Vastemar into Sularia. The first arrivals set up makeshift encampments outside the Drover's Gate and the Banadyr Gate, forming the nucleus that would grow into what is now called the Shambles. 
The Shambles is the larger of the two refugee shantytowns that have grown outside Torrune's walls in the past several years; the other is Little Maarna to the south of the High City.