The Margate is a major shipping hub, due to its oceanic prominence and collection of fantastic harbors. In addition to trade, fishing is a major industry of the district. Its citizenship traditionally harbors tendencies towards exploration and curiosity, seeing home as more of a resting point between journeys. This may be due to the area’s history of shabby homes and low-incomes, with the rich harbormasters and shipyard owners comprising a wealthy minority of the residents. Architecture in some of the poorer areas could be at times ad-hoc, using materials and flotsam washed ashore to nail together crude dwellings. Although those days are generally long since over, many of the beaches, as tourist destinations, play upon this faded reality to the point of becoming kitschy.
This District is home to Grunn's Orphanage and its inhabitants. These include: