<< But what of older pre-dragonkill buildings..... What I'm actualy fishing for stray thoughts on is what form EWF era buildings took and how widely they were distributed.>>
Interesting question. I would note that Old Pavis was an imperial age city, so it's ruins would be in the right era, even if modified by Master Mason Pavis and Flintnail the Mostali, not to mention Godlearner influence and the climate differences. There are also clues in the terrain illustration from the Dragon Pass boardgame but I wouldn't use them as any sort of authoritative source.
<<Were they more advanced builders in stone/brick/cement/other There are some indications (can't remember where) that EWF buildings are weird & draconic(?) but a 3 story redbrick house with a chimney is probably well weird by orlanthi standards. In fact it will look even weirder after it is half melted, twisted and blackened by Dragonflame. Joe O. won't know it wasn't meant to be like that.>>
I think they went for big earthworks, huge stone constructions with no
apparent purpose (think stonehenge, and weirder), and peculiar and impossible
wattle and daub constructions that are more like post-modernist buliding than
red brick houses.
I think there are some good ideas to be had from some African mud buildings
(I think there is a cathedral made from mud somewhere near the Sahara), but
also from Machu Pichu and Anchor Wat other impressive ancient ruins.
<< How widly spread would EWF culture be? (thus where would remains be)
This probably depends on what part - ewf itself, the building style, the government, ?
The main, most populous part, IMO, was the valleys of the Creekstream river, ie where the Upland Marsh is now, and the rest of the flat land around the Dragon's Eye.
<< How populus was the area (compared to current Sartar)>>
I think it was much more populous, much much more, like a civilised country IMO. No problems from Horse Spawn, no deserted Bush Range, no Black Horse county, no Stinking Forest warzone, no Ormsgone Valley (maybe an Orms-still-here-mountain?),
If it wasn't for the Old Day Traditionalists up in the hills there wouldn't be any need for the Lord Demon of the Legions of Death to be the primary wargod of the Third Council.
Keith Nellist
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