Who do you mean? The city folk or the PCs?
As far as the city goes, the pirates are a little.. unusual I guess you would say. They aren't like jonny depp pirates, a little bit closer to one piece pirates actually. Biggest issue they have, is that almost everyone there is a pirate, and as Ishanra isn't just any port city, but one of the largest port cities in the setting. Due to it being more of a pirate port, as opposed.. to.. Vensu, it has more open trade routes with less red tape.
Vensu operates on the same continent, but is operated by the foxes. The typical fox in this setting while crafty and sly, is also all about paperwork and contracts. If you want to compare them with someone, they would be the Marines. Most of their ships and airships end up being contracted out, getting essentially small companies in Vensu to build them their ships.. while the pirates of Ishanra either purchase custom jobs from the big companies there or craft them out of wrecked parts in the scrap yard. Ishanra has the largest scrap yards in the setting.
Now in this world, Pirates tend to generate a lot of respect and oddly they do very little actual piracy, mostly they just harass the 'marines' who organized specifically to stop pirates. Which of course begs the question of "would there be pirates here if there wasn't marines?" Who knows.
(And yes, I just did make almost all of that up as I posted. But hey, it helps create the world still
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