Bloodhelm is a large port and trading area. Bustling with trade as it is, there has to be a place store the items that come in by sea or in by wagon train before they head out the other direction or are sold in the bizarre.
There are blocks and blocks of wooden warehouses down by the wharf (there are a few independently owned warehouses close to the main gate coming from the east, but not many). They are usually three or four stories high, two hundred yards long and around fifty feet wide. Most are weathered, simply from being so near the salt air carried upward by the ocean breezes. Even new repairs are weathered in no time. Roofs are always repaired right away, even if the rest of the buildings might not be in such great repair, because rain is a constant in Bloodhelm. Wet merchandise does not sell.
Most warehouses are shared by several merchants who share the cost of security. Some of the bigger merchant trains (such as Sweet Water Inc) own their own and hire their own full time security. The city patrols will watch for break ins, but are easily bought off.
Each warehouse usually have a manger for the whole building, whether there are several merchants in a building or not.
Tomorrow: Some bit of History
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