The Wet Lantern

A tavern in Deep Reach built on one of the city's floating pontoon platforms, accessible only by boat. The Wet Lantern sways gently with the water and its lanterns are waterproofed with wax and oil. It is the social center of the Reach — the one place where salvagers, traders, and officials share space and drink strong rum cut with rainwater. In the Drowned Reach, this site is one of the half-drowned settlements that rebuild themselves on stilts every generation around the Sunken City. The sea is steadily reclaiming the coast, and the Echo is the regional Fray-consequence that haunts the deeper channels. What the tide takes here, it usually takes for a reason — sometimes a Shard, sometimes a name, sometimes only the road that used to lead inland.