The Bridge to Prosperity is a treacherous journey both literally and figuratively. It crosses from the Patch Forests to the Salt Flats over the Horseshoe Chasm. It takes nearly fifteen minutes to cross on foot.

The bridge's first iteration was nothing more than a rope bridge precariously hanging over the chasm. Its anchors regularly dislodging from the ever moving Salt Flat's ground and needing to be reworked. An orc named Ragash decided that that was not the orc way and designed a bridge that could cross the gap. Over the course of years the Bridge of Prosperity was rebuilt making it marginally safer, but with the winds crossing the salt flat travellers still needed to exercise caution. Ragash is now celebrated in the Patch Forest district, her descendant Yerug manages a bridge architec-tural shop there.

The bridge is an important trade route point cutting much of the travel time to the center of DaYuan Yan by nearly a day. Many merchants cross it traveling to and from the city to the capital.

The headquarters to the Gear Heads, a major engineering company. This building is where most of Gear Heads research and development as well as manufacturing occurs. It is a massive factory with a giant hole at its center to allow for the freemovement of parts to easily pass between the levels. It is also one of the most guarded places in DaYuan Yan as the trade secrets of how the Gear Heads work is held close to heart.

Those that do get graced with a chance to visit will be amazed at the smooth running of the assembly line. They will be flabbrgasted with the new and alien patents they engineer in their halls. Most importantly they will lost in plethora of in house machinery that only an apprenticeship with the Gear Heads could instruct them to use.

Its said that the cogs of the Gear Heads never stop turning. There are several shop foremen to run each shift in the building. Two in particular stand out. Routhu, a family man that boasts twelve children two of which work on his floor, and Gharol a sleep and caffeine deprived woman that one would not want to meet on the streets before she has had her coffee or ale.

A unique feature to Gear Head is their extensive hiring of Ogres for manual labor. They have formed an Ogres' Workers Union. The head of the union is an Ogre by the name of Bladekork.

With the slowly dwindling forests of the Patch Forests and the discovery of a dormant volcano on its western side, the Great Pique Park was Mandated to protect and research what was left.

The Park holds many mysterious creatures one of such creatures is called the moorbounders. These creatures were such a trouble that Uncle Orakh made a wall of thorns to bar the creatures from getting into the forest though they occasionally get through.

The greatest feature of this park is an ancient druid hierophant. The orcs call him Uncle Orakh, and he was the druid that first seeded the lands in his youth some two to three hundred years ago. None know why this orc has lived so far past his prime, but they praise his work and the gift of the trees to the people of DaYuan Yan.

Ranger Station

A department of Rangers was established to slay monsters and protect visitors to the park as necessary. This Branch is simply called the Association of Guo Park Rangers (AGPR) and is a standard addition to Shouren Guo's National parks. The head ranger at Great Pique is an orc woman named Agrob, who takes great pleasure in teaching young ones the beauty of the park's flora and fauna.

The first route to DaYuan Yan was gouged from the earth by orcs from the Origin Marshes. These orcs were from the tribe called Bloodnails and their leader was Gurthug The First Monkey Lord.

The gouge would eventually be paved and named after the warlord. It leads nortwest through the Origin Marshes said to be the birthplace of all orcs. Once it reaches the marshes it becomes a dirt trail that leads to further to the northern reaches of the desert caused by the Arcane Dust torent until it reaches the genasi oasis city Khaymat Mafquda.

The Horseshoe Chasm has had a strange sorted history with the orcs of DaYuan Yan. A dangerous almost unending fall that leads directly to the underdark, the chasm is not a place one wants to find themselves falling into.

If by some miracle one does survive, they'll be faced with all the horrors the underdark has to offer as well as a prison colony of cannibals that find sustenance from the bodies the city dumps into the chasm. Vaaddan Fungussmile has claimed leadership over these sum through force. He is a vile and nasty gnoll with a bone saw sword and spiked whip to install fear into his underbelly minions.

The Last Ride

Built by the Gear Heads, the Last Ride is a funerary tre-buchet. It was built when the population of DaYuan Yan exploded and the cost of mummification ascended with it. Taking the opportunity to send off their people in an engineering marvel like the trebuchet, the orcs began lighting the bodies on fire and launching them into the Horseshoe Chasm.

Road to Despair

The Road to despair is one of DaYuan Yan's darkest and most closely guarded secrets. When criminals and undesirables can no longer be tolerated in the city, they are taken down to these underground tunnels and prisons.

Though prisons are a term used sparringly as most of these people are taken to the chasm and tossed out like those among the dead, just without the funerary trebuchet.

The current warden of these tunnels is not known by many, but those who do know him call him Black Tusk. He seems to only take orders from the heads of the Salt Licker clan. Which is bad news for criminals whom receive a pardon from the capital.

Ah suburbia, where there is a metropolitan urban center, there are bound to be suburban housing developments. The middle and upper class call this district home. Those that can't afford homes in the Patch Forests district will settle here. The generational towers the orcs typically build are mostly still in their third or fourth storey.

This area was once covered in forests planted by Uncle Orakh, but when the moorbounders started inhabiting the forest it became a danger to traverse. The orcs began deforesting the area to destroy the creatures' habitat. In its place the orcs built homes.

The Northern Shield is a great wall that borders the northern edge of the city and extends far into the east. During an extended period of goblin raids in the northeast of Shouren Guo, DaYuan Yan began building Northern Shield starting from Gurthug's Gouge. After work started, many other orc cities began assiting in the development. The wall stretches from DaYuan Yan all the way to the Spine of the World.

The wall is manned by several groups across Shouren Guo, but in DaYuan Yan its manned by guards and monks from the Red Fan Monastery. Commander Braugh leads the standard forces that watch the Shield.

The Patch Forests were planted centuries ago by Uncle Orakh when he foresaw the future of DaYuan Yan. These forests were a patchwork of different kinds of trees, hard woods to soft, redwoods to the mighty oak. These forests provide much of the lumber required for the orcs to build their large cities.

Patch Forests District

In the Forests lies an upscale district for the wealthy and affluent. A mergence of stone and wood, nature and civiliza-tion, the Patch Forests District brings a an air peaceful reflec-tion.

Several upper class and noble families live in this area, most notable of which is the twenty-fifth prince of Zhong-yiang, Liu Zhemin. Zhemin uses the district to throw lavish parties at the expense of the other denizens' peace. The Geng family of the Salt Licker clan owns a generational home in this district, their matriarch Nargal is a nation renowned meditation specialist.

Built on the center of Steeltooth, the Red Fan Monastery was founded by the last of the Bloodnails tribe. The building sits atop several other generational homes of the four founding masters. Three had no heirs, and the last's heir still teaches.

The current master, and possibly last of the Bloodnails lineage, is Zupaugh, but do not let his advanced age fool you. He runs the Red Fan Monastery as an elite war school, willingly taking in the orphans and the vagabond if they can survive teaching them the ways of the Baboon's Claw.

The Repeating Trebuchet Array is a strange device to say the least, the greatest creation to come out of DaYuan Yan to say the most. A brilliant young engineer and druid named Urugdiscovered a method of maintaining the force of a trebuchet launching mechanism while at the same time giving it a contsant rate of fire. With a team of 5-10 orcs can keep such a weapon firing every six seconds. In an array like the one in DaYuan Yan can cause devistation to an entire 3,000 ft² area. The array is managed by an entire military company of orcs.

The array was built to deal with a roving goblin horde that breached the Northern Shield's defenses. Its success against the goblin campaign lead to the government in Zhongyiang to purchase them for their newly formed artillery battalion led by General Gao Huan a former student of Zupaugh kicked out for his radical ideas.

Today the array stands as a monument and tourist attrac-ion in DaYuan. Shops and restaurants have been built around the weapon, limiting the the firing arc and capacity of the weapon, however, the weapon is still in working order.

The Salt Flats account for the initial wealth seen by the settlement, as well as the the name given to the Salt Licker clan of orcs. The Salt Flats are a great resource, but also quite dangerous. Heavy winds constantly blast the flats pushing towards the edge of the Horseshoe Chasm. Those too close to the edge risk being swept over into the abyss.

Bivouac Brines

Life still continues on the flats dispite the winds. A workers' village has formed around a salt mining operation in the area. The orcs here are even shorter lived than most of there kin as the salt from the flats tans their hides, fills their lungs, and diminishes their overall health. It is a tough choice as the money is more than they could hope for in the urban districts of DaYuan Yan, but the toll it takes on their bodies means less time to enjoy it.

Thugs and brutes have pushed the brines into some semblance of hierarchy. Their leader is an orc named Urzul, she commands the orcs and foreigners that call the brines home.

The Salt Mines

The Salt Mines of DaYuan Yan are the richest in all of Shouren Guo. Owned by the Salt Licker clan, the current head being Pakgu, the mines provide the lions share of DaYuan Yan's economy.

To the west, past the Patch Forests, beyond the Great Pique Park, there lies a dormant volcano. Pools of boiling water, outcroppings of obsidian stone, and stoney grounds cover the lands around the Pique. Further west past the volcanic lands are the cliffs that hover over vast swafts of marsh land.

Deep in the heart of the volcano lies the lair of an efreeti named Sawsan-nar and her retinue of salamander warriors. She gets blamed every time the earth rumbles around DaYuan Yan. Also among the chambers of magma that lie beneath the Pique a school of Kaikau Ahi is said to swim.

Despite their initial independence from Zhongyiang, the people have always been fiercely loyal to orc culture. With visitors from the west, DaYuan Yan wanted to introduce them to the grandeur of orc culture and architecture.

The Enrichment Center works as a welcome center and museum of orc art. Thankfully there is a lot for people to see and do at the center, because leaving and entering the city requires a lot of paperwork. A scribe initiate will take their paperwork and begin filing it while the vistor partakes in the center.

The Shouren Enrichment center hires many people to work its bureaucracy and museum. The curator is Xunug an overly enthusiastic orc whose attitude borders on propagan-da-like fervor.

The first hill upon which DaYuan Yan built the foundation for their great city. The hill gets its name from the juttings of hematites that dotted the hill.

Initially, baboon troops called this hill home, but they were such a plague to Uncle Orakh that he sought help to deal with the creatures. The Bloodnails clan would bring these creatures under and settle Steeltooh Hill.

The hill would become the epicenter of urban development as the Bloodnails began building generational homes that would eventually reach the sky. The baboons themselves would be bred and utilized for a short time while the Bloodnails controlled the hill. After their fall the baboons would trouble the streets of DaYuan Yan.

The ancient Uncle Orakh, tired by the constant incursions of the moorbounders to the lands around DaYuan Yan, grew a large wall of thorn and vine to keep them out. Unfortunately this had the opposite affect as bristled moorbounders the only creatures strong enough to cross the porch came in droves.

When DaYuan Yan became big and profitable enough, it drew the eye of Zhongyiang. It was at this time that Zhongyiang began moving its bureaucrats into the city. They had the Zhong Bureacracy Building comissioned near the center of the city's urban area.

The the bureaucrats from Zhongyiang take on a number of workers from DaYuan Yan, but the provincial minister is Tang Delan and his assistant is an underappreciated Glasha.

Born from the remnants of the Bloodnails orc tribe, the Baboon's Claw is a warlike monastic order that home down in the Red Fan Monastery near the center of Steeltooth Hill.

The martial art was forged out. This gives them a very agressive style. Those watching have described their kensei's arts as a primitive or primeval expression of power.

The monastery is very accepting of orphans and lost souls from around the kingdom and beyond. Zupaugh has been noted for saying "We will take those huddled masses, the homeless, the tempest-tossed yearning to breathe free and teach them our ways and give them a family to call their own" demonstrating his openness to those around Dawurld (Yes, this was shamelessly ripped from an inscription on the Statue of Liberty). This has unfortunately had its downside in ex-monks like General Gao Huan.

Being a war oriented group, many people foreign to the city will come to this order of monks with contracts for merce-nary or exceptionally expensive guard work. DaYuan Yan itself has a standing contract with the order to work the Northern Shield, a place for fresh members can cut their teeth on military work before taking tougher contracts. Many that currently reside in the city find steady work in bounty hunting between larger contracts.

The Gear Heads claim fame from two major constructions: the Last Ride funerary trebuchet, and The Repeating Tre-buchet Array. From these magnificent inventions and marvels of engineering, they have carved out a place in the city of Da-Yuan Yan.

The Gear Heads are currently led by Vakgu. An aggressive orc in his business practices, he has earned the moniker Bulette Vak. He has purchased or forced a large portion of the city's engineers into the Gear Heads' fold. Though there is a lot of love and appreciation for the guild, little of that affection finds its way to Vakgu.

Though their primary focus is engineering and profits, the Gear Heads have a diversified portfolio of properties, credit lines and loans, and much more. They also fill out the lines making DaYuan Yan's

The Gear Heads have a rich history in DaYuan Yan, and they employ a number of different races in their manufactory. Ogres, Oni, foreigners, and the more civilized of goblinkind find work with the GearHeads.