Wind City

A floating city, a shipping nexus, a storm below.

Port Anchorhold floats on eight massive engines above the storms of a gas giant. Split in two by structural practicalities and a stark line of wealth, it is the over-romanticized Wind City to almost everyone in the Forge. Glitz, deals and old money get the Upper City. Grease, grudges and people who keep the lights on have to make do in the Lower City.

Wind City is a two-page sector starter for Ironsworn: Starforged, built for a quick start of play, whether starting a new campaign or navigating to a new sector in an established campaign. Notable locations, factions, and NPCs provide a focused location with tensions already in motion: a labor dispute moving towards a boiling point, a smuggler's growing ambitions, and a principal engineer with a secret that could see the city fall.

This starter runs slightly longer than the standard sector starter format - two pages instead of one - in order to provide additional detail on the trouble unfolding.

Though written for Starforged, the sector starter is easily portable to most sci-fi or space-opera systems and settings - any setting where a floating city and space commerce would be plausible.

Touchstones: The Outer Worlds' Murder on Eridanos, with notes of Freelancer and Mass Effect.

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This work is based on Ironsworn: Starforged, created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.