Okrel

Okrel
Spanning a large area of swamp, the moist city of Okrel is where most of the known roads and routes through the swamp lead to and from, making it the most accessible place in the bog. Because of this and the city's central location in the continent, it's one of the most diverse places in the world with a huge variety of races walking its rickety boardwalks.

It's the main trading hub for the magical meteorite known as Slickstone, a rare material with arcane properties.

Cityscape
There's no order, plan or design to Okrel's layout. Its long rickety streets are mostly wooden boardwalks, haphazardly built by underpaid labourers who got told to make something functional, not long-lasting. Merchants and traders new to the area often make the mistake to think that the boardwalks are safe to transport heavy loads on, and collapses are common. They soon learn that goods are transported throughout Okrel and big areas of the Everbog on swamp boats, pulled by the giant frogs that the bullywugs train. The waterways in Okrel are often busier than the boardwalks, filled with the croaks and snarls of angry bullywug merchants as they all try to get to where they're going.

The buildings in Okrel are mostly wooden, multi-story contraptions built on stilts stuck deep into the marsh. Walkways connect the buildings, with rope bridges connecting the higher stories, creating a sprawling multi-level metropolis. Structures inhabited by bullywugs or gatorkin often have fenced underwater levels, used by the amphibians as roads and entryways, refreshingly untraveled by foreign traders and merchants.

Population
Okrel is a true multicultural city, the active trade attracting races of all shapes and sizes. There's entire streets of dwarven smiths and brewers next to Modron temples devoted to Primus, gatorkin alchemy shops co-exist alongside kobold trapping markets, while dragon strength dojos compete for space with human woodworking facilities.

Okrel thrives on trade, and with trade comes crime. Large criminal organisations are present in the city, engaging in everything from racketeering and smuggling to whole-scale gang warfare and murder. Law enforcement is lax and corrupt, and with enough coin a criminal can get away with anything. The only thing the bullywug peacekeepers crack down on is Slickstone smuggling, which is a trade they want to keep all to themselves.

Slickstone
Okrel is placed right on the edge of an area of swamp known as The Rains, where the magical rock Slickstone falls from the sky, providing an extremely valuable resource to be traded. Slickstone accounts for much of the city's wealth and popularity. In the center of the city a giant pillar of Slickstone proudly stands, next to the headquarters of the Bogleap Company; the main exporter of the material.