Where a journey changes hands
At Ashport, arrival is rarely the end of a trip. A load moves from a ship to a yard, from a yard to a train, from one office's paperwork to another's. The Stacks and Brannock Yards give those transfers a physical shape. A railway line, a gate and a bank counter can all belong to the same commercial journey, even when the people working them never meet.
The people behind the shift
Ironrow's foundries and union halls belong to the working city. The Tidewall belongs to the people who return home after that work, with the flood line still visible on their doors. Neither district is merely a backdrop for cargo. In the county fiction, meal arrangements, repair lists and meetings carry as much local memory as the official movement of goods.
An address on Wick Street
Wick Street's banks and law firms translate physical things into accounts, agreements and claims. Its quiet rooms contrast with the sound of the harbor, but the two parts of Ashport depend on each other. The city archive follows that relationship through places and ordinary written traces. Inspector Tomasz Rook holds the Ashport files in the game; this collection introduces the setting without opening a case solution.
Stories from Ashport
Letters that arrive late, objects with a second history, and the people who read what remains. Explore fourteen original short mysteries set in this city.
Read the Ashport story collection ↗Continue through the archive
Districts of Ashport
The Stacks ↗
Explore The Stacks in Somatry: Ashport's container yards, port-police offices and original fiction about a harbor whose lanes change with every shipment.
Ironrow ↗
Read Ironrow's original Somatry lore: Ashport's foundries, union halls and the community records that continue long after a working shift ends.
Wick Street ↗
Discover Wick Street in Somatry's original fiction: Ashport's banks and law offices, where quiet waiting rooms connect to the moving cargo of the harbor.
The Tidewall ↗
Enter The Tidewall in Somatry: original fiction about Ashport's seawall homes, flood marks, repaired thresholds and the written memory of shared weather.
Brannock Yards ↗
Explore Brannock Yards in Somatry's county fiction: Ashport's rail-freight district, the night train south and documents that travel ahead of their cargo.
Original world fiction published by Somatry. These location stories expand the setting for readers; they are not case evidence, walkthroughs or a list of confirmed playable DLC missions.