Five Irons

## Background

Five Irons is Sayrem's major industrial district with several factories, the train depot, and housing for its many laborers. It is located outside of the city's wall.

Pretty Baby believes that "not many people that live here do have choices to begin with" and the Professor adds that "a lot of people here don't have the means to just leave Five Irons."

## Locations

### Rail Care

Rail Care is Vee Lasetti's free clinic as well as their home. The Professor and Pretty Baby also live in its train cars. Pashmina Myron joins them at Rail Care, after her family kicks her out of their estate on Crescent Hill.

### Melvin Avenue

Also in Five Irons is Melvin Avenue, where Sabri the child Weaver used to live with his mother. Melvin Avenue is a narrow cobbled street, a collection of cramped, terraced apartments, small one-bedroom homes stacked into as much space as possible. Here, the poverty of the city is evident—there is very little funding, and there are virtually no guards or protection for its inhabitants—, but so is the community.

### The Cannery

Underneath this busy factory lies the base of the Red Dogs, a local gang.

### Warren Station

*Warren Station is an underground area of Five Irons, the remnants of what used to be a much larger railway station. In the more prosperous times of the city, Five Irons, nestled between the docks in Still Harbor district and the Edgelands, was once a place where many goods were brought in and out of the city. Now, Warren Station is still a place of trade, but is where the more illicit and sometimes strange merchants in Five Irons can be found.*

When Pretty Baby and the Professor are first shown going there,

> *They wander past the bustling open area full of people and stalls, and turn to a more secluded part of Warren Station.* *In front of them is a stall, with heavy drapes concealing the area beyond. There is a low hissing noise coming through the dim lighting followed by a voice.*
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This stall is the establishment and possibly home of Pepper.

### Taylor's Way

Taylor's Way is the place where the Professor finds a mauled body and comes face to face with the *dire grimm* that killed them. Four people, a larger number than usual, waiting in line in front of Rail Care the following morning, suffering from symptoms ranging from a numb arm to fever and vomiting, all come from Taylor's way and all fell ill during the night.

### The Old Library

On the top floor of a library in Five Irons, protected by a large, closed, wooden door inscribed with their symbol, lies the base of the Quiet Echoes. They have taken over most of the attic space and adjoining rooms.

> *The building is poorly maintained, the city providing little funding for libraries or other such public services for the poor residents. The older stone building is now dark gray with soot and age. What was once an impressive domed roof is now missing tiles, offering little protection for the few books inside.*
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## Notes

1. ↑ Source for character information and quotes: ep. 1.
2. ↑ Source: ep. 1.
3. ↑ Source: ep. 2.
4. ↑ Source: ep. 2. Pretty Baby, who first follows Red Dogs there, returns in ep. 4.
5. ↑ Source: ep. 3. Transcript of the narration courtesy of Lauren.
6. ↑ Source: ep. 3. Transcript of the narration courtesy of Lauren.
7. ↑ Lauren's spelling. Could have been meant as *Tailors Way*, as there are fabric factories in the area. (Clarification by Lauren).
8. ↑ Source: ep. 4.
9. ↑ Source: ep. 4. Transcript of the narration courtesy of Lauren.