RE: City Outline & Neighbourhoods - Sketch Map

From: John Hughes <john.hughes_at_...>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:18:06 +1100

Sheep I can certainly agree with. Lots of sheep. It's not ideal cattle country - that's Northvale itself, which you can see from the south walls - but there will be some local herds if only to supply the king's household. Refugees may have bought cattle when the civil war started, but once the Lunars arrive the herds are either confined in the city or confiscated and slaughtered by the Lunars once the Umbroli destroys the bridges on the only supply road in.

So the Great Market will be crowded out with herds initially.

Pigs in the nearby woods - both wild and semi-wild-gone-wild, if you know what I mean. Beware the Nightjar Woman.

Perhaps a few bloodline mines scattered about the plateau. I doubt if any will remain working once the Lunars arrive. But PCs have this thing for tunnels...

As for food stored in the city, the Iscari assassins who holed up in Masada had enormous stores of grain - but it was a hundred years old. So they went and massacred a nearby (Jewish) village and stole their grain rather than risk Herod the Great's old store.. 'Heroes', ya gotta watch 'em... I'm sure we can borrow the old grain bit, though with Asrelia some of it will still be pristine. Who knows just *what* might be found among centuries-old grain.

John