Quayside Harbors

The Quayside Harbors in winter, as viewed from Whilforber Hill.

The ****Q******uayside Harbors** is a tumbledown district in Nagspeake. It has more old iron than any other place in Nagspeake, and smuggling is a large part of its culture.

## History

### *Bluecrowne*

Trigemine and Blister set off for the Quayside Harbors in search of a place to stay. Trigemine thought it 'miserable', though Blister persuaded him that it could be much worse. He noted that he'd once kept a warehouse in the Harbors, and they found a place to stay.
Lucy Bluecrowne asked to go to the Quayside Harbors so that she could have her own boat. Kendrick brought her and Liao to John Agony Pier, and they found a cutter that Lucy decided that she wanted. Lucy's father bought Lucy the *Driven Star,* as she called it, and while the crew of the *Left-Handed Fate* were working on it, Lucy and Liao explored the Quayside Harbors. They met Trigemine and Blister, and Liao and Blister worked with fireworks together.

The *Left-Handed Fate* went to Flotilla to get its hull re-coppered, and Lucy was disappointed, because Flotilla was not close like the Quayside Harbors, and it would be hard for her to visit the ship now. Lucy later went to the Quenching Press in an attempt to get the Ironmonger's knife, but gave up and returned to the house.

### *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*

Madame Grisaille mentioned how much old iron there was in the Quayside Harbors. Mr. Haypotten said that Hugo patched sails in the Quayside Harbors for work. Hugo's house was in the Harbors. He later let out a London fog over the Quayside Harbors, which took away its distinctive smell and dimmed the lights. He later let the fog out again by accident, and soon the Quayside Harbors was covered in fog and seemed very different. He found many people lost, and supposed that they knew the Quayside Harbors very well. He helped people lost in the streets of the Quayside Harbors. Hugo went to the Printer's Quarter to get his fog bottle fixed, though it was very far from the Harbors.

### *Greenglass House*

Milo noted that there was a launch that ferried the Quayside kids to and from school. He noted that usually guests came by the river, and they would often pay many old people in the Quayside Harbors who would ferry people to Greenglass House in their old boats for not much money. Greenglass House overlooked the Quayside Harbors, where smuggling was a large part of life. Mrs. Pine had grown up in the Quayside Harbors, where they told many stories about Doc Holystone.

Meddy thought she recognized Fenster, and Milo suggested that she might have seen him around the Quayside Harbors. Milo noted that the Pines had many space keys, because the closest locksmith was far away in the Quayside Harbors. Clem said that the antique shops in the Harbors were dodgy.

Fenster told Mr. Vinge that Doc Holystone had smuggled copper pipes for the contractors in the Quayside Harbors, who could not afford Deacon and Morvengarde's expensive ones. When Clem and Owen left Greenglass House, they went to Owen's home, which was in the Quayside Harbors, and assured Milo that they would be home soon.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

Georgie noted that Gilawfer's warehouse was in the Quayside Harbors, and that the iron structure that had damaged it wasn't his fault. There were a lot of weird old iron structures in the Quayside Harbors, she said, which were poorly understood. Georgie and Clem had information that indicated that Violet Cross's stash had been underground in the Quayside Harbors.

Emmett Syebuck had been in and out of Greenglass House, Mrs. Pine said. He mostly went by boat and through the Harbors. The map Marzana made of Nagspeake included the Quayside Harbors at one end. Violet Cross had found out that Georgie and Clem were hunting for her cache when they started looking for information about underground ironwork in the Harbors.

### *The Thief Knot*

Meddy decided that the Belowground Transit station Whitesmith's Row was in the Quayside Harbors, where there had been a metalworkers' quarter. Marzana supposed that Meddy would have spent a lot of time in the Quayside Harbors, which, she noted, had the most old iron in all of Nagspeake. Doc Holystone had brought Alexander Cabot to his house because, he said, he had come from the Liberty so there was no point in meeting in the Harbors, but really there was no point in trying to be sneaky with Alexander Cabot.

## Physical characteristics

The Quayside Harbors is known for the presence of old iron; it covers many of the buildings, fences, and lampposts. Some buildings are stone but most are wooden, and the Harbors is built mostly on piers jutting out onto the Skidwrack. The district is described as tumbledown, and the buildings are gray from weathering. The Quayside Harbors smells different from most other harbors, with scents of wood, stone, mud, wrack, lichen, mold, metal, and canvas.

## Locations

### Holloware Row

Holloware Row is a cobbled, narrow, dark street where Jonas Forgeron keeps his tin shop.

### John Agony Pier

John Agony Pier is the pier where Jianming Cerrajero kept his lock shop.

### James Ordeal Pier

James Ordeal Pier is a pier in the Quayside Harbors, where the *Left-Handed Fate* stayed for some time.

### Fornax Street

Fornax Street is a street in the Quayside Harbors. Its sign is covered in weeds.

### Tinplate Street

Tinplate Street is a street in the Quayside Harbors.

### Tuyere Street

Tuyere Street is a street in the Quayside Harbors.

### Bloomery Street

Bloomery Street is a street in the Quayside Harbors.

## Gallery

**Take a look at our **gallery for Quayside Harbors****.