Port Marble

History
At some point in the distant past ancient Humans once sought the marble that makes up the bluffs of the Northern Sea of Swirls. These early settlers of the area formed a settlement known as Port Marble in the Southern Sea of Swirls. Dispite having to fight off the native Hobgoblins of the northern sea the Humans managed to build their port city out of the sacraed marble they sought. However, extensive cross breeding with the local Orc population caused a major influx in the Half-Orc population. This combined with costly warfare with the Hobgoblins eventually caused the dwindling human population to disappear from the area. Few testaments to the original Port Marble exist in the present day city. The original Town Hall still stands walled off from the rest of the in the city's Marble District. Two other marble buildings are present in the Marble District. These two remaining marble structures are home to an expensive reasturant called The Bounty of the Sea, and the Bank of Port Marble. The final remaining symbol of the early roots of Port Marble is a large obliesk surrounded by six pillars that stands atop the northern most cliff of the city. This marble monument once stood as a religious symbol for the early humans that settled the city. As legend tells it, the citizens of Port Marble would gather once a year on the spring equinox to celebrate the marble and all its glory. This was a storied tradition that was practiced since the begining of the civilization. It is rumored that religious worship of the marble was an idea shared with the humans by the neighboring lizardfolk that inhabitied the swamps to the west of the Marble River. Today the festival has lost touch with its honored roots and has become an excuse for the people of Port Marble to be drunken slobs for an evening. The Half-Orcs that now populate the city are a crude representation of their wiser human predecesors. Though they see themsevles as the people of the marble, the Half-Orcs have very little actual knowledge as to why the marble is important.