Goblintown

Description - A maze of generators, turbines, and crackling arcane conductors, the Zappworks serves as Goblintown's center of invention and experimental engineering.

Workshops glow through the night with electrical discharges and unstable magical currents, while ambitious artificers constantly test new devices that blur the line between science and sorcery. The district attracts dreamers, risk-takers, and innovators from across the city. Goblins, rock gnomes, dwarves, kobolds, and air genasi work side by side, making the Zappworks the most diverse quarter of Goblintown. Tinkerers debate theories in crowded workshops, artificers compete to unveil the next breakthrough, and galvanists push ethical boundaries by attempting to animate constructs—or even the dead—with stolen lightning. Failure is common, explosions are expected, and strange accidents are considered part of the learning process. Despite the constant danger, residents share an infectious enthusiasm for discovery. In the Zappworks, a wild idea is often worth more than a careful plan, and today's catastrophic experiment may become tomorrow's revolutionary invention.

Faiths & Organizations

The Zappworks is powered as much by ambition as by electricity, and several influential organizations compete to shape its future.

• The Wirewrights Guild maintains the district's sprawling network of cables, coils, transformers, and arcane lighting systems, ensuring that power flows reliably through workshops and laboratories. Their representative, Aelion Statwing, is an idealistic air genasi engineer who dreams of replacing the district's notorious unpredictability with stable infrastructure.
• Equally powerful is the Battery Consortium, which specializes in storing, distributing, and selling arcane and electrical energy to inventors, industries, and research facilities. Under the calculating leadership of Volrix Ampere, energy is treated as a commodity as valuable as gold. The most controversial faction is the Galvanists Circle, an informal network of researchers experimenting with reanimation, construct creation, and lightning-powered devices. Their work often skirts legal and ethical boundaries, earning Dr. Nyx Galvane a reputation as either a visionary genius or a dangerous criminal, depending on whom one asks.
• The dominant spiritual tradition of the Zappworks is known as Church of the Sparkborn, a faith devoted to storms, lightning, motion, and the transformative power of energy. Worshippers revere deities such as Talos, Kord, local storm spirits, and other divine embodiments of wind and electricity. To the Sparkborn, energy represents change itself—a force that drives invention, growth, and progress. Their rituals often involve directing harmless electrical currents through ceremonial conductors, flying kites during storms, or offering charged objects to sacred generators and lightning rods. The faith celebrates curiosity, innovation, and the acceptance of risk, making it particularly popular among inventors, artificers, and engineers. Its most visible spiritual leader is Zephrix Coil, a charismatic air genasi preacher who encourages experimentation and bold ideas, intervening only when reckless projects threaten to overload the district's fragile power networks.

Locations

• The skyline of the Zappworks is dominated by the towering Lightning Towers, massive structures equipped with turbines, conductors, and arcane machinery designed to capture storm energy and channel it into the district's power grid. During thunderstorms, brilliant arcs of electricity dance between the towers, illuminating the city for miles around.
• Beneath them lie the Wirewright Halls, sprawling workshops where engineers and artificers manufacture cables, coils, transformers, and countless conductive devices that keep the district functioning.
• Scattered throughout the area are the heavily protected Battery Vaults, secure facilities containing vast reserves of magical and electrical energy stored for industrial use, emergency distribution, or experimental research.
• Around these major landmarks, countless laboratories, repair shops, and invention studios crowd the streets, creating a landscape filled with humming machinery, glowing conductors, and the ever-present scent of ozone.

Ecology

The unusual concentration of magical energy within the Zappworks has created an ecosystem unlike any other in the city.

• Rust monsters roam scrapyards and maintenance tunnels, feeding on discarded metal and occasionally causing expensive disruptions to infrastructure.
• Constructs such as Iron Golems and Steel Defenders are common sights, serving as guards, laborers, or experimental prototypes.
• Strange manifestations of living energy, including Galvanic Weirds, emerge from overloaded conduits and unstable magical reactors, while mischievous Will-o'-Wisps drift through abandoned workshops and storm-damaged facilities.
• More dangerous still are rare Living Lightning Bolts and experimental Lightning Golems, beings composed entirely of electrical energy are regularly created by failed expirements.
• The district's laboratories also produce less successful creations, including damaged flesh golems abandoned by their creators after failed reanimation attempts. 

Description - A vast scrapyard, where war-hardened veterans, car-gnomes and renegade tinkerers work amidst discarded machinery and forgotten weapons.

Its inhabitants claim to know where the best scrap “just happens” to fall from the delivery wagons. The Rustyards draw together those cast aside: battered Warforged, eccentric Autognomes, and fugitives that couldn't find work somewhere else in the city. Hobgoblins and goblins run salvage crews, while plasmoids slip into wrecks others can’t reach. Despite the grime, there’s a sense of camaraderie among these “scrap folk,” who see value where others see junk. Survival depends on knowing which gears still turn, and which allies can be trusted.

Faiths & Organizations

The Rustyards are shaped by two powerful groups whose interests frequently collide. 

• The Constructs Union campaigns for the rights and recognition of sentient machines, maintaining that awakened constructs should be afforded the same dignity and protections as any other citizen. This puts them at odds with merchants and industrialists, who view constructs as property rather than people. The Union's local representative, Irix Coilbound, is a calm and thoughtful Warforged who is known for supporting fair-minded adventurers and for relentlessly opposing exploitation.
• They often find themselves in opposition to the Salvagers Guild, which controls much of the region's scrap trade and fiercely protects valuable scavenging territories. Led locally by the cunning bugbear Mogga Scrap-Eye, who has an legendary memory for debts, the guild ensures that resources continue to flow through the district. Despite their constant rivalry, both organisations contribute to the survival and prosperity of the Rustyards.
• Of the many beliefs held by the Rustyards, the most widespread is a form of animism centred on the idea that objects can develop spirits over time. Followers believe that broken tools, discarded weapons and forgotten scraps may awaken as mischievous beings, protective guardians or vengeful entities if neglected. This faith teaches that nothing is truly worthless, and that every discarded item has the potential to serve a purpose, bring luck, or confer power. Worshippers maintain recycling grounds, cleanse magical refuse and hold ceremonies for abandoned possessions. Acts of harmless chaos and unexpected good fortune are often interpreted as signs of spiritual activity. The most respected caretaker in the faith is Old Clatter-Mother, a non-binary orc who tends the Spirit Shrines and claims to converse with awakened objects. Those who respectfully recycle earn her favour, while those who desecrate sacred scrap sites risk supernatural curses.

Locations

The Rustyards are a sprawling maze of metal and machinery, characterised by several notable landmarks.

• The Scrap Mounds loom large over the landscape, forming enormous hills of rusted metal, shattered structures and obsolete technology. Treasure hunters constantly scour these unstable heaps for rare components and magical relics.
• At the heart of the district lies the Gear Bazaar, a bustling open-air marketplace where scavengers, inventors and traders barter salvaged machinery, spare parts and curious inventions.
• Cogwheel Row, the main thoroughfare lined with workshops where skilled tinkerers transform junk into useful tools and equipment, runs through the settlement. Scattered among the streets are numerous Spirit Shrines, humble altars dedicated to awakened objects and their spirits. Here, followers of local animistic traditions perform rituals, leave offerings and seek blessings from the spirits of objects that have been given a second life.

Ecology

Life in the Rustyards has adapted to thrive among rust, refuse and magical waste.

• Rats feed on food scraps and hidden caches among the debris, while ravens gather in noisy flocks to collect shiny trinkets, and often shadow salvage expeditions.
• Industrial pollution and lingering magical residue give rise to strange creatures, such as dust and mud mephits, elemental beings that feed on slag, soot, and grime.
• Forgotten objects sometimes awaken into animated armour, flying swords, or other enchanted hazards, while rarer clockwork horrors and helmed horrors may be driven by lingering spirits from the past.
• Rust monsters are a constant menace, drawn irresistibly to metal equipment and machinery.
• The district's pools of oily runoff also conceal dangerous oozes, including gray oozes, ochre jellies, and the dreaded black puddings, all capable of consuming metal, organic matter, or both.

Description - A neighbourhood where goblins, fire genasi, and mad alchemists develop new explosives and weapons and run black-market businesses.

Boomtown is a volatile melting pot of goblins, kobolds and fire genasi, joined by eccentric giff mercenaries and rock gnomes seeking profit. Its alleys reek of smoke, blasting powder and alchemical runoff. Here, inventors test unstable prototypes alongside demolitionists, who peddle sabotage. The locals thrive on chaos and ingenuity, accepting that, in Boomtown, every deal carries the risk of sudden detonation. The shops sell unstable, experimental weapons and single-use magical items, many of which spectacularly backfire, whilst demolition experts sabotage construction projects for the right price.

Faiths & Organizations

Boomtown thrives on invention, explosives, and carefully managed chaos.

Description - The Red Pits are the place, where fighters, monsters and even constructs battle for profit.

Different rules apply to the various rings and arenas – some fights are magic-free, whilst others feature ferocious shapeshifters or experimental performance-enhancing drugs. The Red Pits attract the desperate, the strong and the reckless. Bugbears, orcs and half-orcs dominate the rings, but shifters, lizardfolk and minotaurs test their might against them. Loxodons and Goliaths serve as stoic referees or bouncers, whilst hobgoblins and kenkus run betting racks. Fighters from all races flock here to win glory, whilst gamblers hover like vultures, eager to cash in on blood.

Faiths & Organizations

The Red Pits are dominated by organizations that profit from conflict while attempting to keep it under control.