A northern port city on Masaad Takid, Aal Salma's second city and its moral opposite. Where Hillat Abu Hizam is regulated and respectable, Zamrat Aqabah is neither. Deals that can't be done in the capital get done here. Questions aren't asked. Paperwork gets lost.
The city's warehouses hold goods of uncertain provenance—salvage from wrecks that may not have been accidents, cargo that changed hands under duress, items that certain parties would prefer not be traced. The harbor masters take bribes openly. The city watch takes larger ones.
Since the Poum Titch civil war began, Zamrat Aqabah has swelled with Scalawag refugees. Some are genuine displaced persons; others are smugglers, spies, and war profiteers. The city's criminal economy has boomed. Hillat Abu Hizam pretends not to notice, as long as the tariff revenues keep flowing south.