Based on Douglas's account, The Azure Longsword members roughly figured out the basic situation of this city.
Hero Harbor is a rather special port city. On one hand, it is isolated overseas, so the mainland's ruling power cannot extend here, making it a natural hideout for pirates and smugglers.
They usually raid and plunder along the west coast of the Iberian Continent, against the Wood Elf tribal alliance and the Highland Dwarf Kingdom. If the southern Wood Elves launch a naval crackdown, they flee to the northern Dwarf Kingdom territories; if dwarves start clearing pirates, they move south.
If both races jointly clear the coastal areas, they simply move far from the continent and hide in Hero Harbor to lie low for a while.
On the other hand, the rulers of Hero Harbor are not pirates themselves, including the other eight islands nearby, it's all governed by a religious sacrificial group called "Tzontlilic", entirely composed of Naga.
