Sjil (Seldan)

Sjil, known as Seldan in much of the Civilised World, is a famous trading city in Schai-dam, historically the greatest and most famous trading port in Munatan.

Its remoteness from the northern “Civilised World”, the rarity of its goods and the novelty of its tales and ideas led to it being a fashionable topic for writers of romantic and adventurous fiction in 9th century Harthera. In the north the city is universally known as Seldan, a corruption of Schai-dam.

In earlier epochs when sea levels were lower, the city docks were on the river on the city's east side, some distance from the sea. As sea levels rose, the city became a peninsula surrounded on three sides by sea walls, with docks on the south side. Much of the city's old architecture is orientated towards the east, even though the docks are now to the south.