Vortima
Vortima is a small, oddly formed city alongside ["Lake Giffen"] in the eastern mountains of ["Jorlinum"]. The main city is little more than a medium sized town, but the expansion of mining here lead to two settlements growing up alongside the original town. As they grew, they merged with the town and formed the city it is today.
The land here has a good food supply, which makes it popular. The lake is rich with shellfish, especially freshwater mussels, which are farmed to feed the population. As it was merely a town, the original settlement of Vortima never acquired a city wall - and it's probably too late now. The wider settlements are spread over quite an area, and there is plenty of open spaces between groups of homes of all kinds. The spread-out nature of the city gives the whole place a feeling of being both suburban and part of a frontier to the wilderness.
There are now several small farms to the west of the city, on the lower slopes down by the road, but the terrain here is not the best for growing food. A recent addition to the economy is a vineyard, again down the road to towards Olantius. The grapes grown here are small and they do not fare as well as those grown on the plains to the south. This makes the white wines produced here quite distinctive - they're quite sharply flavoured and crisp.
Plenty of traders pass through this town, but the quality of the inns is quite low when compared to the higher civilisation elsewhere in the Kingdom. Small, grubby hostels are the norm. They tend to serve wine and cider too - there is little beer up here, other than what can be imported, while apples grow freely on the slopes away northwards.