Cold Wind City hides within the southernmost outer foothills from the Spine of the World Mountains and stands atop a dizzying promontory peak. The city and its docks (Cold Wind Port) take their name from the freezing winter gales which roll down off the mountains. Indeed, it often looks as though these winds should send the entire city tumbling down the cliffs into the sea. Departure by land is difficult, downright impossible in the winter months. However, Cold Wind City serves as the chief way station for trade between the northern and southern Crane coastal ports, making it vital not only to the Kakita but to every seafaring merchant in Rokugan. Its docks constantly teem with merchant vessels from everywhere, and the city thus thrives despite an almost complete lack of useful farmland in its vicinity.
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