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Gwennport is the capital of the Artipellin Kingdom. It is a beautiful city located on the edge of the sea, with some mansions close by on the archipelago, mixed with a few fortifications against seafaring invasions.

Exports

As the capital, Gwennport is the biggest exporter of goods from Artipellin. The city's principal exports are of art in different forms, the finest glass in the Realms and a variety of smoked and salted local fish. The city is also known for having an higher-than-average amount of mystics. Both the charlatan types as well as the genuine deal.

Art

Besides the 'invention' of masks originating in the Gwennport carnival, artful items such as busts, statues, paintings, tapestries, clothes and household items such as glasses, cutlery and plates are part of the main export from Artipellin. Caravans travelling with these shipments often come with a whole squadron of guards, Artipellin or mercenaries. Any respectable house has a minor fortune invested in ancient and modern art alike.

Gwennport and indeed Artipellin as a whole is also known for its love of music and theatre, and to some extent this is 'exported', but it isn't a major economical asset.

Glass

Though not as 'high profile' as the art, Artipellin's greater export is of very high quality glass, similar to Venetian glass in medieval Europe. The secret is kept tightly by the Gwennport Glass Crafter's Guild and is sold only as finished products. Other crafters can recycle the material to create new advanced glass creation such as lenses or pieces of art, but rarely as skilled as the crafters in Gwennport.

That said, several crafters from Gwennport have been allowed to start chapter guilds in other major Artipellin cities, creating equally skillefully made products, but not allowed to create the glass, instead relying on transportation of glass ingots from Gwennport. Gwenport glass is only made in the guild quarters of Gwennport.

Places

These are mainly notes, and not necessarily particularly famous places.

Establishments
- Gilded Cup - Mainly a restaurant, but also has suites for the very wealthy. A regular joint for the rich and a treat for the want-to-be-rich.
- Golden Cockerel - Sometimes referred to as the "Golden Cock", the Golden Cockerel is the finest in in Gwennport with a famous kitchen.
- Barmy Barrow - By Ramiro Osborne. Known as "Galne Galten" by the locals, the Barmy Barrow is located in a decent part of Gwennport, though certainly far from the finest establishments.

Characters

Artipellin - Royal family
Tidmore - Merchant family

Gwennport Merchants

Bakers 28
Barbers 58
Bathers 13
Beer-sellers 18
Blacksmiths 7
Bleachers 11
Bookbinders 7
Booksellers 1
Buckle Makers 13
Butchers 16
Carpenters 44
Chandlers 34
Chicken Butchers 11
Coopers 23
Copyists 10
Cutlers 6
Doctors 15
Fishmongers 11
Furriers 81
Glovemakers 10
Harness-makers 3
Hatmakers 26
Hay Merchants 4
Illuminators 7
Inns 3
Jewelers 31
Locksmiths 11
Magic Shops 7
Maidservants 106
Masons 16
Mercers 31
Old Clothes 26
Painters 16
Pastrycooks 26
Plasterers 9
Pursemakers 16
Roofers 4
Ropemakers 6
Rugmakers 11
Saddlers 10
Scabbardmakers 22
Sculptors 8
Shoemakers 168
Spice Merchants 18
Tailors 81
Tanners 4
Taverns 17
Watercarriers 28
Weavers 43
Wine-sellers 27
Woodcarvers 8
Woodsellers 9

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 Gwennport is the capital of the [[Artipellin]] Kingdom. It is a beautiful city located on the edge of the sea, with some mansions close by on the archipelago, mixed with a few fortifications against seafaring invasions.
+== Exports ==
+As the capital, Gwennport is the biggest exporter of goods from [[Artipellin]]. The city's principal exports are of art in different forms, the finest glass in the [[Realm]]s and a variety of smoked and salted local fish. The city is also known for having an higher-than-average amount of mystics. Both the charlatan types as well as the genuine deal.
+=== Art ===
+Besides the 'invention' of masks originating in the Gwennport carnival, artful items such as busts, statues, paintings, tapestries, clothes and household items such as glasses, cutlery and plates are part of the main export from Artipellin. Caravans travelling with these shipments often come with a whole squadron of guards, Artipellin or mercenaries. Any respectable house has a minor fortune invested in ancient and modern art alike.
+Gwennport and indeed Artipellin as a whole is also known for its love of music and theatre, and to some extent this is 'exported', but it isn't a major economical asset.
+=== Glass ===
+Though not as 'high profile' as the art, Artipellin's greater export is of very [[wikipedia:Forest_glass#The_chemistry_of_.E2.80.98forest_glass.E2.80.99|high quality glass]], similar to [[wikipedia:Venetian glass|Venetian glass]] in medieval Europe. The secret is kept tightly by the [[Gwennport Glass Crafter's Guild]] and is sold only as finished products. Other crafters can recycle the material to create new advanced glass creation such as lenses or pieces of art, but rarely as skilled as the crafters in Gwennport.
+That said, several crafters from Gwennport have been allowed to start chapter guilds in other major Artipellin cities, creating equally skillefully made products, but not allowed to create the glass, instead relying on transportation of glass ingots from Gwennport. [[Material#Gwenport glass|Gwenport glass]] is only made in the guild quarters of Gwennport.