>>Option A: If Joerg's map is intended to be the only the *top* of Fellmoor >>(and this makes most sense to me), then the approach road leading east >> from >>the city should continue east off the map. The main highway is quite a >> few >>miles further east, and wouldn't climb the plateau when it can skirt it, >>which is what the published maps suggest.
I've added a map to show where I'd place the majority of the Fellmoor - offstage to the northwest. Check out the new Wiki page "The Plateau" for my proposal and the discussion.
Donald:
> I've been working on the basis that there was an old road up Ramsdrift
> Climb which has deteriorated to a track since Tarkalor's Bridge was
> built. That can then meet up with the Wilmskirk road. There's probably
> also a path through Grundy's Ginnel which connects up with the Markdale
> Trail. That's the one I think most likely to have ravines on it given
> the appearence of the map. Neither are suitable for anything more than
> hill ponies and pack mules so no wagons or Lunar Cavelry. At least not
> until Tatius gets his engineers to build a proper road up Ramsdrift
> Climb which I suspect would be one of his first priorities.
Probably. The Lunar camp on the Plateau would then be nested between Caughtarrow and the hillside, controlling that access? Grudni's Ginnel and the stairs would become the rebel trails up?
>>Option B: If that north-south road is really the highway, then we seem to >>have lost the entire Fellmoor, and need to really up the verticality. But >>the scale doesn't seem right for this approach to work.
>>By way of rough scale, can we assume that the long axis of the city is >>say... 900 metres?
>>I suggest that option A is the most logical.
> Seems the best option to me although a city which is only half a mile
> long strikes me as a bit small but that could reflect its failure.
Space for 10,000 should be a bit larger, but my home city Kiel had a constant population of 3000 to 4000 on a peninsula just 900 metres in diametre all the time between 1250 and 1850. The ring wall of Hedeby with about 1000 metres radius housed some 7,000 at max, but this included gardens and pasture inside. The walled city of Caernarfon you might have encountered as "City of Carse" by Chaosium/Midkemia Productions) has maybe 500 metres from castle to opposite wall.
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