Coalreach is the dwarven-built coastal capital of the Dark West: a dense, engineered city where rail lines pour into deepwater docks and industry runs day and night. Coal-fired dynamos and bound-elemental engines power street trams, floodlit avenues, cranes, and simple shop-floor automata—making Coalreach the go-to place for artificers, patents, precision parts, and repairs. The Iron Gospel Railway administers its empire from Clocktower Works, a vast timekeeping and dispatch complex that overlooks the central interchange and sets schedules for both rail and harbor.
Society here is strictly stratified and money-forward. Dwarves hold most property and offices; wealthy humans and aasimar can buy comfort and access; orcs and warforged are registered labor under badges, quotas, and curfews. Tiefling oath law has no standing inside the walls. Permits regulate weapons and experiments, telegraph bells mark the hours, and one rule frames daily life: miss the schedule, pay the fine.