New refugees and arrivals tend to settle closest to the water, finding shelter in makeshift shacks and shantytowns while they gather their bearings and find employment. The Waterfront, as this large sprawling area is known, is a bustling place of commerce and activity, both legal (fishing, transportation, trade) and criminal (pretty much everything dark and shady). Here desperate people do desperate things – eager to get ahead or to remake themselves, entrepreneurs, con artists, and pickpockets abound at every corner and pub table. Religious orders seek new converts. Security forces and adventuring companies sign up eager recruits here as well.