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[[File:HighTide Harbor.png|thumb|The busiest district in HighTide, Estermont Bay. Taken on 21 June 2021.]]

'''HighTide''' is the capital and the second-most populous city of the [[Free Cities of Alathra]]. As the founding member of the FCA, HighTide is the cultural and governmental center of the nation. The city is also a hub of Alathrian trade, commerce, and shipping. As an island surrounded by towering icebergs, HighTide is quite isolated from the rest of Alathra. The only way to access the island is through the north and south bank, as not even a seasoned captain would be able to traverse the packed ice that lay beyond most of the island's shore. Though the dangers of the Northern Sea are quite dreadful, the island's geographical placement is of quite tactical importance to the Hightidians, as it gives them easy access to the mainland of the northernmost continent, while still making most of their shoreline inaccessible to pirates and invading armies.

HighTide serves as the regional authority of the Seastone Isles, a collection of islands and icebergs located in the Northern Sea. The city, and by extension the isles, are overseen and ruled by the Sealord. The current Sealord is the founder of HighTide, [[Cody29797]]. The city also has a symbolic ruler, a Chelonian by the name of Lord Theodore Estermont III.