Senchal

This infamous city is the largest port in southern Tamriel. Its sprawl covers the easternmost tip of Elsweyr's Quin'rawl peninsula, a motley assortment of bazaars, taverns, merchant quarters, and open-air markets ringed on three sides by its crowded harbors. Senchal is a favorite stopping point for pirates and sea captains seeking to ply illegal or blackmarket goods, it being far easier to smuggle these goods into and out of the Empire by way of the Topal Sea than to use the well-guarded inland highways. Historically, thieves abounded here, as did beggars and pathetic khajiit sugar junkies. The traveler was advised to steer clear of Black Keirgo, Senchal's most squalid and dangerous quarter, when visiting the city. Illicit sugar-dens lined the streets here, where beastmen and nobility alike withered away in sucrose fevers. All in all, Senchal was the ugliest city outside of Imperial jurisdiction. The air was humid and full of the chimney-smoke caught in the eddies from the surrounding coasts. Much of the city was abandoned or in ruins. In 2E 560, a strain of the Knahaten Flu blew across the channel from nearby Argonia and quickly infected the city's population. Whole neighborhoods were razed in some mad effort to cleanse Senchal of the Flu and have never been rebuilt. In 2E 864, visitors to the open-air markets could see these charred skylines on the periphery, as black and jagged as the teeth of the nearest sugar junkie, begging for cake.

In recent years, Senchal has had a remarkable renaissance, from principal port of the drug trade, to coastal resort for wealthy, powerful Khajiit. That glimmer of good news belies the fact that the moonsugar trade in Elsweyr has increased multifold in the last twenty years. Ya'Tirrje, the Gold Cat, is rumored to even have a luxurious villa in Senchal, and helps pay for the abundant security that keeps the city safe and crime-free, all the while continuing his drug-smuggling business in Torval, Corinthe, and Rimmen.2

Although things have been looking on the up and up for Senchal, it is still a notoriously shady and seedy city.