Morne: Building a City Around an Older Secret
Morne began as a place I needed for the second Alkainos novel. It is turning into a river city built around an ancient hill fortress, with several layers of history visible in the same stone.
Steinbruck: The Town the Book Needed
A practical Eidengardian road town built because The Ash Cartographer needed one: toll bridge, market traffic, inns, trades, civic authority and an old half-remembered relationship with the Veil.
Port Baratka: The Pirate City That Needs Rules
Port Baratka sells something the lawful ports of Alkainos cannot: freedom from other people’s rules. But keeping a pirate city useful requires rules of its own.
Aurenheim: Notes Toward a Fantasy City
I’ve been working on a new city for my fantasy setting, and I’m tentatively calling it Aurenheim (“Home of the Auren / shining people”). It’s still in the very earliest stages and many names will likely change. I haven’t pinned down everything yet but I wanted to put a few thoughts down while the ideas are still taking shape. The city’s based (very) loosely on Salzburg, which I visited recently and thought would be a great model to loosely base…