Deepwater

Like many of the locations of the far west, Deepwater is named in wry irony. The channel leading to the town has more sandbanks than the River of Silt to the far east. Still beached on one such sandbank is the Red Osprey, a shallow-drafted frigate caught here when the tide changed, which was then abandoned and is slowly being stripped.

The land to the south is mostly infertile and difficult to farm, but it is vast and cheap, so people will raise sheep and other grazing stock on the hills. Wine from grapes here tends to be sour and dry, but there is a limited market for such drinks in Tanquary Bay. There is also little competition for resources in the hills to the north-east, which contain some trace amounts of copper, and the cliffs to the south contain limestone. The Western Islanders also use this town as a base to develop their limited but slowly growing land forces.