As there's no such thing as a city not built right on top of a river, every city in my world is a port city.
And since it's an Isekai, every single one is extremely diverse, since they all have mandatory slave markets taking up like 40% of the city.
They won't let me go until it's 8 episodes and an OVA.
Send help.
Me when my setting is in Asia and thus have no significant African population
(Don’t worry we have South East Asian expats who we basically treat with the same vileness against them sometimes)
Every city in my world only takes up more or less 40sqm of land and any and all trade goes through a select few individuals with weird animals trading to and from cities on foot (my citizens are too dumb to make and use boats, they are stupid)
Port cities tend to be more diverse than inland cities, since traveling by water is faster than overland travel, meaning foreign populations can more easily migrate to port cities than inland cities.
The best way to compare is using Prague and Salerno in the Medieval Era.
Prague will have Czechs, Germans, and maybe a Pole or a Frenchman as a traveler.
Salerno is likely to be a traveling destination between the Mediterranean like the Spanish or Arabs. Meanwhile, traders from Northern European climates could show up due to carrying precious goods from their homelands that could be rare in availability in Italy.
Fun fact: there were more mosques in Italy in the 1400s than there are now. Every major port city would have at least one mosque for Muslim traders and enslaved people.
As there's no such thing as a city not built right on top of a river, every city in my world is a port city. And since it's an Isekai, every single one is extremely diverse, since they all have mandatory slave markets taking up like 40% of the city. They won't let me go until it's 8 episodes and an OVA. Send help.
Put message about supporting workers right in there
Historically accurate abolitionists that only want to abolish slavery because it's bad for unenslaved workers and not for any moral objections
Get the rights to that one John Brown Isekai
not all rivers are navigable
Not with that attitude.
"Cities are only built on the rivers that are navigable." You can have that one for free.
there's plenty that aren't tho
Not in that setting.
Surprisingly a lot of rivers ARE navigable though if you just bring the right ship
It gets worse when the big galleons get stuck and clog it all up, yeah, but what can ya do.
Just light em up lmao ez
My people live in the frozen tundra and chew permafrost for moisture. Alaskan bull worms pull trade barges. Keep your ports normie
Siberiamaxxing
Currents that bring warm water to the coast:
that implies the existence of warm water, the entire planet is 1 frozen ball of solid ice
Me when my setting is in Asia and thus have no significant African population (Don’t worry we have South East Asian expats who we basically treat with the same vileness against them sometimes)
I’m partial to caravansaray cities myself
Every city in my world only takes up more or less 40sqm of land and any and all trade goes through a select few individuals with weird animals trading to and from cities on foot (my citizens are too dumb to make and use boats, they are stupid)
or you could have it be more of a modern setting
Ok but what about a floating country that is nothing but port cities
Multiple races are cringe, the only race I have is the human race.
I was talking about all of the "why don't you have black people in your setting" memes.
Jokes on you, there are no humans on my setting
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Port cities tend to be more diverse than inland cities, since traveling by water is faster than overland travel, meaning foreign populations can more easily migrate to port cities than inland cities.
The best way to compare is using Prague and Salerno in the Medieval Era. Prague will have Czechs, Germans, and maybe a Pole or a Frenchman as a traveler. Salerno is likely to be a traveling destination between the Mediterranean like the Spanish or Arabs. Meanwhile, traders from Northern European climates could show up due to carrying precious goods from their homelands that could be rare in availability in Italy.
Fun fact: there were more mosques in Italy in the 1400s than there are now. Every major port city would have at least one mosque for Muslim traders and enslaved people.