[WIP] Camwyn, Unpaid Commission

[the-golem]

It wasn't really for scale... just... I don't know. I was on break at work and only had time to swipe the mouse a few times.

Oh!! Yeah, 4 lane roads, that's about right.

They were built with the help of magic, by elves. as they built the mages worked with them to make the stones and wood all one piece, as if they hadn't been carved apart to move them and build with them. Kind of like the description of whitebridge in the wheel of time. "yet is so strong even a chisel and hammer will not mar it and despite its glasslike surface, it never becomes slick, even in the hardest rain."

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I know this is unpaid and I shouldn't be too picky, sorry.

Don't worry about being picky, it's your map. I had an idea that might let you have both the overall positioning of the city with regards to the island, and options for detail. In a corner box, we could put the overview as an inset, and the full page could be a zoomed up city portion, ie Center Camwyn, NE Bridgetown, NW Bridgetown, etc. Here's a hobbled example to illustrate my meaning: In this example, the highlighted (red) box in the inset would be the zoomed in area. Of course, this makes more work for me.

Camwyn-Inset.png

I have a question though. You don't want this to be a fortified city, which is understandable, but you also want strict laws on immigration, and the docks should be seperated from the main city. If there's no barrier or walls, how would the docks really be seperate from the city?

While we're at it, lets revisit scale. What kind of scale were you thinking of for this island city? Venice, Italy? Manhattan Island, NY? I did some googling, and found some island city examples: http://www.touropia.com/island-cities-around-the-world/. I particularly like the layout of Trogir, but it is rather small by today's standards -- population is ~13000 people. By comparison, Venice has a population of about 270,000 and Manhattan is roughly 1.5 million. According to Medieval Demographics Made Easy 13,000 is entirely reasonable for a Large City. (But, so is Venice at +100k as an exception to the rule).

Looking forward to your response, thanks.