The northeastern bay where the coast curves toward the Tarns, fed by seasonal rivers descending from the highlands. A cluster of settlements with distinctly different character from the rest of Mueras lines these waterways. The names here—Al Khamilah, Al Muqlib, Sha'ra, Am Batr, Al Harajah, Sirm al Banna—carry the echoes of old long-distance trade, but the settlements themselves are Kuran, grown up around the bay's seasonal rivers and the highland routes inland.
The Sal'emri settlements maintain careful neutrality in merchant-king politics. They pay nominal fees to House Hammren for protection but answer to no Mueran authority. Their value lies in being outside the system—when merchant-kings need neutral ground for negotiation, when goods need to change hands without pilot-guild fees, when information needs to pass without observation, Sal'emri Bay provides.
The rivers feeding Sal'emri Bay are seasonal—torrents in the wet season, trickles in the dry. But even at their lowest, they provide irrigation for the date palms and grain fields that make these settlements self-sufficient in ways the coast cannot manage.
Al Harajah
The furthest upriver of the Sal'emri settlements, Al Harajah clings to the river's edge where the foothills begin to rise. The town serves as the last supply point before the highland crossing toward Kura. Merchants bringing Kuran glass to the coast stop here; those carrying coastal goods toward the desert interior depart from here.