Armada
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[edit] General Info
Armada is a floating pirate city that roams the Swollen Ocean. It is constructed of scavenged ships joined together with chains, planks and bridges. The city is shrouded in secrecy to outsiders and survives by way of piracy, scavenging and some trade with other pirate factions like the Cactacae faction Dreer Samheer.
[edit] Appearance in Bas-Lag Novels
Armada is a floating city featured in China Miéville's novel The Scar.
[edit] Neighborhoods (Ridings)
Armada is comprised of smaller city-states known as "ridings". Each riding has its own ruling class which participates in a council that governs Armada as a whole.
- Garwater Riding - The most powerful riding in Armada, Garwater Riding, is ruled by The Lovers. It is Garwater Riding in the novel The Scar which spearheads Armada's effort to raise a large sea creature called an Avanc.
[edit] Location
Armada is a floating itinerant city that slowly roams The Swollen Ocean, approaching certain regions to trade with certain factions, like the Dreer Samheer, a faction of Cactacae.
