Pier 15

== Background ==
The longest most notable pier on the Granthelia docks is dubbed Pier 15 by the dock office. Being the outermost point of port, reaching a lengthy 150 meters out into the northern sea. Being so long, repairs from storms and social fracas has rendered it a somewhat haphazard stretch of pontoons, gantries, and stable lengths of the pier from its original construction. Despite the safety hazards of the pier, its use has never gone down, in fact the reserved space registered for Pier 15 is rumored to be longer than the pier itself. The advantageous jutting nature of the pier has kept it this way. 
== Superstition ==
The pier, with all its history and baroque existence, has left it with a lengthy trail of rumors. A common saying of the Pier is that it is in fact held together by eldritch means, as its current condition would make normal means of cohesion seemingly impossible. Yet this theory is often dismissed at the fact that the city's practitioners of magic have far more important things to do than ensure the pier's togetherness. Another rumor upheld by the city’s peasantry is the possibility that Pier 15 originally was built on pillars of the bodies of workers that died building the dock. They say as the bodies washed away and the pier was repaired over time, that is how the water at the Commonport docks has adopted a permanent rust colored polluted hue.
== Slang ==
The Pier in all its long history of being a location for events more commonly associated to the peasantry. As such, their terms for it are varied and broad in their meaning.
"Northgate" - Derived from its position as a spoke of Granthelia, the trade ships to and from the dock serve as a route of stowage for desperate urchins. This term has reciprocal meaning, as the ships come in bearing slaves and live animals for noble menageries or the arenas.
"Macabre Mooring" - Due to the bone white color of the sun bleached posts used to more ships, this connotates to the more morbid beliefs regarding Pier 15's origins.
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