Bridgetown

Bridgetown is the first in a series of defenses that protects Palinor should it ever be attacked by sea. A predominantly human settlement built on a wide bridge across the mouth of the river leading to Palinor. The town is ruled by Palinor and serves as an intermediate trading hub between the city and the rest of the world, in order to reduce river traffic. The appointed figurehead is given the title Mayor.
== Layout ==
Mostly wooden buildings. Main road running through the middle, a couple of parallel streets too. In the centre, the cobbled main-street opens out into a large circular courtyard, with the bridge bulging out on either side. Lampposts. Steps raising up to the stone barrier where people are looking over at the view. There are long oval openings too, with iron bars stopping the children from falling through. Padlocks with initials graved into them are chained to the bars. The bridge itself appears to have had many iterations. You can see old wood merged into the stone, rotten in places. You guess that once, long ago, it was a simple wooden bridge joining the two sides of the river – no houses on top, no cobbled streets. You also see metal beams stuck on to join parts where the wood has snapped or rotted, and complex scaffolding and supports holding up part of the structure. But most of the bridge is now made of stone, great wide columns built to withstand the years.
Underneath are wooden water wheels, turning with the tide of the river, and to protect them in case of a heavy rainfall and a current too strong, in front are metal channels and gates used to control the direction and flow of the river. 
The so-called _underbridge_ consists of makeshift shelters out of wooden pallets and sheets of corrugated iron, and awnings draped across. Damp wooden platforms, and you see rusted drains running alongside the stone, and barred circular grates in the columns, leaking sewage and filth from the upper level.
== History ==
Built by the Dragonborn Empire as a military station to protect their supply lines against naval raids. After the Treaty of Palinor, a town was built on the bridge to house refugees.
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