The Whirl

This part of Magnar's Landing is the newest and least developed, and furthest from the city’s centers of commerce and government. In other words, no one with power really cares about it. The greatest investment that the local city powers made was to dig a few major sewer trenches and line them with stone, to ensure that human waste and manure from the Whirl’s horse districts would flow out to sea south of Otter Beach, and not through the yards of that area’s upscale estates.

Description
There are a few stone structures but most are wood or mud plaster, but they’re not nearly as well-made as the ones in White Square, and few are more than a single story. Some are simply makeshift shacks or tents. Poor immigrants who come to Vesland for better opportunities find affordable rent in the Whirl, cheap space available for housing or commerce.

City planning in the Whirl is minimal. Streets are kind of a mess:  unplanned and unpaved, meandering and twisting at odd corners. Most avenues and side streets are old desire lines between existing structures that eventually sprouted additional buildings along the way.

Crime
Law enforcement rarely comes to the Whirl. No one knows the statistics because no one's keeping track.

Horse districts
As a city of 80,000 people, Magnar's Landing requires a large population of horses and other livestock to support it. The finely bred carriage and riding horses of the wealthy are stabled on-property, but the working horses who pull carts throughout the city are stabled in large, sprawling blocks in the Whirl. These complexes are owned by different landlords who either own their own herd and rent the animals out, or who rent the stalls to those who need to board their horses. The buildings are not much to look at:  open-air corridors between rows of single-story stalls, with the occasional barn and hayloft mixed in.

Cattle, pigs and other livestock animals are occasionally housed here as well.

Manure blocks
Refuse from the horse districts and other stables and barns throughout Magnar’s Landing is carted to one of several manure dumps throughout the Whirl. This is one of the reasons that housing horses in the heart of the city is so expensive and only manageable by the very wealthy.

Manure from the blocks is carted out of town by road or shipped upriver, to be spread on farming fields elsewhere in the Velsignet Valley.