Location from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
A Trader city built on ancient Elderling foundations — where fortunes are made in wizardwood and exotic goods, where liveships dock, and where the Vestrit family's fate unfolds.
Bingtown smells of spices, salt, tar, and money. It is a city defined by trade — the Old Trader families who built it, the New Traders who want to change it, and the liveships that are its greatest treasure and its deepest mystery. The social hierarchy is rigid: Old Traders at the top, new money striving, slaves at the bottom (though the Old Traders maintain a careful fiction that Bingtown doesn't practice slavery). The city is built partially on Elderling ruins, and the Rain Wild River connects it to Trehaug and the deeper Rain Wild settlements. It exists in a permanent tension between tradition and commerce, between the families who remember why the rules exist and the newcomers who see only profit.
A prosperous port city with architecture that blends Trader wealth with Elderling remnants. The Old Traders' houses are impressive — large, well-built, and decorated with the accumulated wealth of generations. The harbor is deep and busy, filled with both ordinary trading vessels and the great liveships. The newer districts, where New Traders have established themselves, are rawer and more commercial.
Also known as: Bingtown, The Trader City