The North Corridor is probably the richest sector of the city. Spreading mainly to the west of Caravan Street, it contains a large shopping and trade section (stretched along the main avenue, Caravan Street), the financial sector, the major guild halls, the government buildings and courts, and the homes of many wealthy artisans and merchants.

Caravan Street is lined with shops and inns, all appealing to the mass of people comprising the trading caravans and to the travelers who pass along the Long Road. Nearby lies the "financial section", the location of most of the major banking houses of Petrana, and the winding way called Gold Alley, where goldsmiths, Petrana's moneylenders, tend to congregate. This area is bounded by Wall Street, The Tarax Way, Northgate, and Caravan Street, and probably contains more actual monetary wealth per square toot than any other borough (the Heights included) does per square yard.

Along the river's edge lies Believer's Lane, home to most of the major temples in the city. At the northwestern end reside the most prestigious of the temples. As one proceeds east on the Lane, the buildings tend to get smaller and meaner, until, at the very end of the street, they disappear entirely, leaving only a pair of vacant lots in which the most minor faiths have their congregational meetings. The three largest temples in Petrana (by congregation, wealth, and political power of adherents) are Eollana (the triple-faceted earth mother), The All-Father, and Dorian (the much revered god of the river).

On the far western edge of the borough, along the river, are shipping wharves, warehouses, and drydocks and ways for shipbuilding; these run right to the city wall, and provide service for the upriver trading vessels. The remainder of the western sector of the borough is a residential area referred to as the Glens; populated by wealthy merchants and guildsmen, it occupies the area between the Heights and the Old Wall (occasional portions of which can still be seen along Wall Street).

Inside the Old Wall lies Tradesmasters Square, at the end of Journeymen's Road; the square is dominated by the Hall of All Guilds, an Immense building in which the insignia of all the trade and craft guilds In Petrana are displayed, and official meetings of the Great Guilders (the Guildmasters of the over-organizations for the various classes of craft and trade associations) are held. Surrounding the hall, in Guilders' Park, are the halls of the Great Guilds, and in many cases, additional halls for the subsidiary guilds and associations. There are nine Great Guilds, the broad scope organizations that gather a number of smaller guilds and craft associations into a powerful political unit. Seven of these unions have their halls in Guilders' Park; the other two Great Guilds, the Mages' Guild and the Guild of Entertainers, share the power in the city, but not the real estate of Guilders' Park.

Across from the Hall of All Guilds lie the buildings of the High Courts - the Court of Common Law and the Court of the Exchequer, handling most of the civil and criminal cases brought before the courts (The Court of the Eagle Standard and the Court of the Circle Chamber meet elsewhere), the Black Halls (the retention facility for the criminal courts - a smaller version of the Gray Halls in the South Corridor), and the offices of the five High judges. Just to the east are the Chamber of the Council of Boroughs and the Palace of the Mayor; post of the governance of the city is determined within these two structures.

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