When the local magistrates of the Empire of Taldor began construction on a new outer wall, they designed Le Avenue Champs-Élysées to be an extravagant and elegant homage to the Emperor. The gatehouse at the end of the this new thoroughfare was christened La Porte d'Azlanti. Enormous and awe-inspiring, the stone gate was sculpted in traditional style. The eastern gate was designed to greet travelers with a perfectly framed view Isarn's bustling main avenue. After the rise of Cheliax and the construction of Le Levant, La Porte d'Azlanti began to slowly decline.
Since the beginning of the Red Revolution, council mandate has kept La Porte d'Azlanti closed to the public; traffic is funneled through the Farmer's Gate in the south and Le Levant in the west.
This splendid thoroughfare begins at La Porte d'Azlanti bisecting the the Industrial Quarter, and ends at La Scène in Sud Rivière. Though many of businesses of the avenue have shuttered their windows, little merchant carts and stands have popped-up all along the avenue. The wide streets make the Champs-Élysées a popular location for businesses and foot traffic because it is easy to keep distance from pickpockets and cutpurses.
In the center of Le Avenue Champs-Élysées busiest intersection, is a large, well-kept plaza. In the center of this plaza stands a statue of Alseta, comforting those in Isarn that there is someone watching over the many changes in their lives.
On the border between the Wine Quarter and Industrial Quarter, lies a section of Isarn's outer wall ravaged by pests. As the city declined scavengers and strays began roaming all of Le Carrousel. In the past few years, this problem has becoming particularly pronounced in Le Quartier des Ravageurs, which has become overrun. Whole blocks have been taken over by raccoons, and any attempts to quell their population have been turned aside by their mascot and protector: Le Raton Laveur.
The Old Taldor Paper Company is run by Chelish national Armando de Modesto. Despite his heritage, Armando is tolerated in Isarn because he keeps to himself and his tidy shop is the only place in Isarn to find quality paper and inks. The exceptional wares have made the Old Taldor Paper Company indispensable to arcane, alchemical and legal practitioners.
At the height of the Age of Enthronement, the craftsmen of Galt’s capital constructed their guild hall from the very best lumber in the Boarwood. This spacious and expertly crafted hall is now filled with disenfranchised woodworkers that produce simple but effective goods with little room for artistic expression.
The Galt Gazette has neither a fixed publication schedule nor a fixed location. The Gazette is eagerly anticipated by Galt's free thinkers. Its reputation for publishing the absolute truth with absolute conviction. Though their press and editors have never been discovered, various abandoned sites with evidence of their operation have turned up throughout the Industrial Quarter, uncovered by friends and enemies of truth.