L: The Lampadephore Airship Port: Records of love, lies and loneliness

Lampadephore (noun): A torchbearer.

South-east of the Fischer-Marinkår copper mines lay the Lampadephore Airship Port, supposedly named after the earliest caretakers stationed at the lighthouse.
They lead the way for ships to find refuge in the ports of the Free City of Jubylon. These caretakers sometimes married each others, their successor at times married one of their children, until at last the name became a title of whoever worked the Lighthouse at the end of the bay of Jubylon, decorated with with the symbols of the Fiery Foundation. That at least is the story told to us through letters, transcripts and faded copies of newspaper cuttings. As for the airship port honouring the many hard-working lighthouse keepers, what we have are the instructions for it's opening ceremony (which sadly lacks a date that includes an actual year instead of just October 4^th!). The document is written in Spanish and seems to have been from some point at the beginning of the 20^th century. It includes directions for when different groups of musicians were set to arrive, and when the caters would bring in fresh seafood, garlic bread, bread with herbs and an almost untold numbers of deserts. Judging from the documents, at least 500 guests seems to be a cautious estimation of how many attended apart from staff, caters and musicians.

Apart from cutting of the ribbon, done by a representative of the iatrarchic government, there were shows, a dance floor and exhibitions abroad the airships, including a set of paintings done by a painted simply mentioned as "one of the Free City of Jubylon's own children, the famous student of Goya, recent returned home via airship". The whole event seems to have been partly sponsored by the Fischer-Marinkår family (a footnote specifies that they had invested into and therefore owned 25% of the airship port) and opened by a poetry reading by a Juan Handler-Zeehond, Chief Librarian of the Great Library of Jubylon. The actual owner and operator of the place however is glaringly absent. One can only hope that the day went well.

One things that is clear from later descriptions of the place is that as airship travel decreased, so did the airship port’s importance. Which was why, that when it was partly burned in an attack on the city and then flooded with the chemical weapon of Cobra, none seems to have had the founds or willingness to fully rebuild it. What did happen however is that it became a hotspot for discreet meetings, be they courtships, illicit dealings of smuggled goods or conspiracies; the airship port continued to deliver. That meant that it was also a place to go for people to be completely alone, since it became an informal tradition to see none, talk to none and speak about none at the Lampadephore Airship Port. The place is mentioned plenty in court records for smuggling and dealing in stolen goods, wedding speeches and poems about loneliness and despair.