The Tin Spur

The Tin Spur is a large, open-roofed, circular building near the southern Nuln Gate. It is used for various entertainments, including bear-baiting, dog fights, and pitfighting. It is occasionally used by entertainers to put on plays, both itinerant troupes or local players. The building lies outside the town’s walls, owing to a bylaw put in place a few decades ago, because the sight of blood offended the delicate sensibilities of Lady Jungfreud.

There are three floors of galleries for watching the performances. A series of pens lie attached to the rear of the timber and lathe building, where the animals are kept, alongside a meagre collection of costumes and props.

Fleshmarket

The Ubersreik fleshmarket lies to the north-east of the town. Given the law against stone, it comprises a handful of wooden buildings, with a number of stakes forming pens alongside pitches for tents and wagons, including a stables and a kennel, which are permanent fixtures. Other beasts (pigs, cattle, sheep, and similar) are driven to the pens on a rotational basis.

Morr’s Field

To the northwest of Ubersreik lies the town’s graveyard, Saint Morr’s Field. It is surrounded by tall and crumbling stone walls, religious buildings being exempt from the bylaws. Within lie the graves and ravenstones of Ubersreik. Mass graves for paupers, single plots for the middle-classes, and great mausoleums for the wealthiest families in town. Additionally, there is a shrine to Saint Morr, a holy man devout to Neira, goddess of death and mourning, which is attached to a larger hall, used by the Mourners’ Society, an informal group of locals who offer solace to the grieving.

Schadrach Bürke is the ranking priest of Neira, the Goddess of Death. Bürke is a tall, angular man with a long nose and a mournful aspect. He rarely leaves the Field, and has little Human contact, save when comforting those who have lost loved ones, or issuing instructions to his two gravediggers, Ewald and Oswald.