Fenside

Fenside is a district of Torrune lying outside the walled city; it occupies the wedge-shaped area of land just west of the city proper, formed by the angle of the Helvander-Greywine river confluence. It is connected to the rest of the city by the Nyrrian Bridge, which runs across the Helvander to the Low City's Millstone Quarter, and by the Boatmender's Bridge, which crosses the Greywine and joins the far shore to the south of the High City's walls. West of Fenside rises Hex Hill, with the outermost neighborhoods of the district climbing up its lower slope in a series of winding, switchbacked streets and narrow stairway-like alleys. 
Fenside's name stems from the fact that, in the past, this area of low land in the crook of the river junction was swampy and overgrown with marsh grass and willows. Over time, as Torrune grew during the Old Empire days, it began to fill in with workshops and businesses too smelly or smoky to be welcome in the city proper: Tanners, renderers, charcoal-makers' kilns, and so forth. This area was depopulated along with the rest of the city following the empire's collapse, but when the rise of League brought renewed river trade and a rebirth for Torrune, Fenside was soon in use again. Eventually craftsmen associated with the boat-building industry (rope-makers, timber-cutters, joiners, etc.) also began establishing workshops along the riverbanks here as the waterfronts of the Low City became more and more crowded. As small boat slips and piers were built along the shore of Fenside, bigger ones soon followed, then the quays for unloading heavy barges, then warehouses and dockyards. 
Today, Fenside much resembles the waterfront districts of the Low City, but with a more chaotic and unplanned street grid: A bustling hive of docks, storehouses, stables, taverns, brothels, and workshops, with countless boats, ships, carts, and wagons coming and going in swarms at all hours. Charcoal-makers and tanneries are still numerous on the outskirts of the area. It is largely working-class and many of its neighborhoods could be frankly described as slums. Fenside is also notorious for its criminal element, particularly smugglers. In reality, the Low City probably has just as much of this activity, but Fenside's reputation as a smugger's haunt is persistent.