Tuesday, May 10, 2022

The City of Tre'Volos

Tre'Volos is divided into six quarters.

1) The Guildsman's Quarter contains light industry and manufacturing plants. 2) The Thieves Quarter is the home of the Thieves Guild. 3) The Seafront Quarter holds docks, ships, and shipwrights. 4) The Merchants Quarter is the closest thing to a downtown shopping center. 5) The Temple Quarter contains most of the Temples and Mages Guilds. 6) The Nobles Quarter is where the rich and famous live. 7) The Central Square is where Sedmon’s castle and grounds are.

Although there are more than four sections, ‘Quarter’ is the term the commonfolk use.

The walls of the city are about 25 feet wide (wide enough for two war chariots to pass each other!) and about 50 feet tall. No one alive remembers how deep they are, nor anything about the castle’s foundations. The is a large guard tower at each of the corners, and smaller ones at either end of the several boulevard gates. The city was rebuilt by Emperor Sedmon over 6,000 years ago. The original city fell during the siege where the original owners were captured, and many of the city’s less reputable shops and less reputable religions were eliminated. For example, the only evil church left in the entire city (that is known) is the Temple to Thoth, guardian of the Underworlds and Lord of Death.

Speaking of walls, there is an inner wall fairly close to the palace and grounds, and From the a middle wall that was built some time after the establishment of Sedmon’s Castle, which surrounded the remaining six districts and protected them from invasion. Quite some time later, an Outer Wall was built surrounding the mapped area of Tre’Volos. This included mostly farm lands of several types. From the farthest Southern Wall to the farthest Northern wall is almost a gigantic five miles!

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