Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- tirades:2019-06-18 [2023/09/18 15:05] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ tirades:2019-06-18 [2024/01/25 09:54] (current) – shyriath
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-The impression given by the outlying villages is only increased when first beholding [[avishraa:community:Poradrin:]] itself, and with good reason, for in many ways it's the same thing except scaled up.
+The impression given by the outlying villages is only increased when first beholding [[geopolitical:Poradrin:]] itself, and with good reason, for in many ways it's the same thing except scaled up.
-As mentioned, the city is at a river fork; it rests in the narrow angle between the River [[avishraa:place:hešrin|Hešrin]] and the [[avishraa:place:tanal|Tanal]], a major tributary; the city is therefore shaped roughly like an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isosceles_triangle|isoceles triangle]], with the riverbanks serving as the two long sides and the landward wall as the short one. Roads following each river pierce the wall through gates; these form a V-shape within the city, although they are joined by numerous cross-streets in the narrow dimension. The city is also walled on the sides facing the riverbanks, with two smaller gates on each side, to allow access by boat. (The rivers are wide enough that the [[xtauh:]] have not yet been able to span them with bridges, and people and goods must be ferried across.)
+As mentioned, the city is at a river fork; it rests in the narrow angle between the River [[geography:sekhaa:river:hesrin|Hešrin]] and the [[geography:sekhaa:river:tanal|Tanal]], a major tributary; the city is therefore shaped roughly like an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isosceles_triangle|isoceles triangle]], with the riverbanks serving as the two long sides and the landward wall as the short one. Roads following each river pierce the wall through gates; these form a V-shape within the city, although they are joined by numerous cross-streets in the narrow dimension. The city is also walled on the sides facing the riverbanks, with two smaller gates on each side, to allow access by boat. (The rivers are wide enough that the [[xtauh:]] have not yet been able to span them with bridges, and people and goods must be ferried across.)
-While geography and economics have some say in the layout of the city, it is, compared to a human or even takma settlement, remarkably decentralized. There is a relative lack of major civic buildings: there is little in the way of government to be housed in a permanent facility, with most "official" city business being conducted in the [[avishraa:community:poradrin:Forum]]; there are no great museums or institutions of higher learning; there are no great temples - one can always worship at home, where it's comfy, or go bother a priest if there's a thorny issue, and the city doesn't host any famous relics that would draw an audience. The Forum, and a few other important buildings, are hosted near the [[avishraa:community:poradrin:Great Commons]] at the point of the V made by the major roads, for convenience's sake, and some industries are concentrated in certain areas due to demand, to a need for cooperation, or (like the tanners) to offend as few neighbors as possible, but there are few precincts are dominated so thoroughly by one industry that they fail to be within easy reach of others. It is also the case that most neighborhoods are strongly residential. (As in the villages, many occupations are effectively cottage industries.)
+While geography and economics have some say in the layout of the city, it is, compared to a human or even takma settlement, remarkably decentralized. There is a relative lack of major civic buildings: there is little in the way of government to be housed in a permanent facility, with most "official" city business being conducted in the [[geopolitical:poradrin:Forum]]; there are no great museums or institutions of higher learning; there are no great temples - one can always worship at home, where it's comfy, or go bother a priest if there's a thorny issue, and the city doesn't host any famous relics that would draw an audience. The Forum, and a few other important buildings, are hosted near the [[geopolitical:poradrin:Great Commons]] at the point of the V made by the major roads, for convenience's sake, and some industries are concentrated in certain areas due to demand, to a need for cooperation, or (like the tanners) to offend as few neighbors as possible, but there are few precincts are dominated so thoroughly by one industry that they fail to be within easy reach of others. It is also the case that most neighborhoods are strongly residential. (As in the villages, many occupations are effectively cottage industries.)
 The use of "precincts" is of note here, because it is probably the least problematic description of the city's internal organization. If one recalls the way that hamlets and villages were described in the last Tirade, Poradrin is made up entirely of units very much like that: clusters of homes, each surrounded by a wall shared with its neighbors, with its exterior walls joined together to separate the cluster from its surroundings. The precincts differ from the villages partly in that they are no economically self-contained, but more visibly in that their exterior walls are 1) usually higher and stronger, often of brick; and 2) not bounded by countryside. Most usually, the walls face onto major thoroughfares, but are sometimes a shared boundary between two precincts, or may even be the city wall. (In the spaces between the city wall and the river, the river itself serves the function of a precinct wall.)