Virelay

The largest port of the Virelay Coastlands and the symbolic centre of the region — built on the harbour above the Underwater Well, where the Third Shard of the Pattern was recovered by Auren Thorne. Virelay's harbour has been a working port for longer than any standing record reaches; the Drowned City offshore is part of the same urban continuity, drowned and rebuilt and drowned again. Bell-towers mark the fog; the salt-houses on the inner cliffs are older than House Thorne. Trade with the Bellroot Vale and the Deyune Steppe passes through this port. Since the Third Shard was lifted, the harbour's tides have settled into a regular rhythm for the first time in three Loops.