Veros | city district names help

[Ttttttt]

Nestled within a gorge on the Serpentide Coast, the vast sprawling city of Veros climbs the steep rock leading to a half-dozen lighthouses that beam deep orange light onto the endless-going waters of the ocean. A bustling city, filled with travelers and merchants, wagons carefully travel up and down the narrow streets before making it to the banks of the river where vendors shout at stalls with food, wine, and spices.

Due to it’s location within a gorge, Veros doesn’t see much sun except for an hour or two during mid-day. Because of this, Veros relies on the use of many grass spheres filled with flickering motes of light that are magically suspended 15ft in the air on either side of its dark-cobblestoned streets.


This is a small blurb from a city that I'm currently homebrewing, however I need help coming up with names for it's districts. Anything helps, just put down any and all cool names below and it's even better if you have a sentence or two on why it's named that! Thanks!

[Tzardok]

Whatever districts are directly bordering the gorge's rock walls could be called Cliffshadow and Cliffroot. Flowquarter is the harbor district. The Shining Quarter could either be the entertainment area or whereever the rich and powerful live with a lot more light than anybody else.

[Wintermoot]

Name the districts after the six lighthouses that loom over them.

Northwater
Loomshadow
Gloomcutter
The Lower Shoals
Linger
Lastlight

Something like that.

[Breccia]

...grass spheres?

[Ttttttt]

...grass spheres?

oops, meant glass

[brian 333]

I like grass spheres. Put fire beetles in them. (The kind that glow, not the kind that spit fire.) The fire beetle grubs are found in the rocks of the cliffs, and the town buys them after they have become nymphs. The nymphs inside the woven grass spheres attract wild males which fly at night seeking mates, so the lamps themselves are less than a quarter of the total illumination. When a nymph mates through the grass, she deposits her eggs in the weaving and dies. When enough have mated that the lamp is no longer bright, the globe is replaced with a new one and the old is discarded on the rock cliffs where the grubs prosper.

Lamplighter's Guild
Apprentices as young as ten climb the rocky slopes seeking grubs which are moulting.
Weavers are typically elderly who lack the ability to perform harder work.
Street sweepers are teens who get out before dawn and clean up the shells of dead and dying beetles. The shells are used to make wood polish, but only alchemists know how to do that.
Journeymen tend the lamps and ensure the captive nymphs are well fed. They also remove males from the interior of the lamps to insure the females remain attractive to the wild males.
Master Lamplighters organize the guild and maintain the chrysalis and nymph maturation terraria to ensure a continuous replacement of the creatures which typically live several years as grubs, several months as nymphs, and several weeks as adults.

The Guild has successfully bred seasonality out of the population, so even in cold or stormy weather they fill the city's lighting needs.
The grubs require minerals found in the rocky soil of the gorge to illuminate. The process has not yet been identified, so grubs cannot be farmed anywhere else.

[Metastachydium]

I like grass spheres. Put fire beetles in them. (The kind that glow, not the kind that spit fire.) The fire beetle grubs are found in the rocks of the cliffs, and the town buys them after they have become nymphs. The nymphs inside the woven grass spheres attract wild males which fly at night seeking mates, so the lamps themselves are less than a quarter of the total illumination. When a nymph mates through the grass, she deposits her eggs in the weaving and dies. When enough have mated that the lamp is no longer bright, the globe is replaced with a new one and the old is discarded on the rock cliffs where the grubs prosper.

Grass spheres for the win! The nymphal stage is not a sexually mature instar, though.