The Bigger vessels need somewhere sheltered to do their running repairs out of mainstream river traffic.
A recent addition to the docks are the three large cranes which are singularly responsible for halving the stevedore labour force which would have been loading and loading the ships that berth here. Needless to say the Stevedores Guild is mobilizing as we speak and there is likely to be an all out strike.
If the city walls should be breached the Morphian Lord has somewhere heavily fortified to retreat to. However, in times of peace it has become little more than a museum in which to house many of the cities archives and is popular among the scholars of the university district. Several enterprising market traders have therefore set up their stalls within its shadow to catch the passing students who are alway in need of parchment, writing instruments and ink.
Morphians like to keep clean so the municipal council invested heabily in it's public waterworks schemes. The Great Bath House in the centre is fed continually with clean water and it disgorges it's waste into the river. Only the richest can afford the luxuries of private bathing in these sumptuous surroundings. Downstream are the ever popular public bathing steps where even the common man can bathe in full view of his peers.
Morphians who fall foul of the law are incarcerated in this prison which rests on a pillar of bassalt giving its inmates commanding views over the city. The Barracks block at the foot of the hill ensures that there is a ready supply of soldiers to keep any unrest among the prison population to an absolute minimum.
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