ak-Samar
Demographics
70% Lo-atuk (mainly cloth and food.)
20% herder
10% temple inhabitance
the highest population of priests and mages due to the presence of the temple.
Government
run by the usual tribal elders as a large town it has a council of them instead of the usual singular elder. the temple is its own self-regulating agency that cooperates with the local council.
Defences
stone walls and a large number of in training or retired mages.
Industry & Trade
farming herding as well as a temporary inhabitation of nobles on retreat.
Infrastructure
The city is built into the hills in a two-lobed walled shape. the town to the west with a large public fountain and dozens of family houses each with a family garden and a small fountain. a small fancy family house is used by the king on visits. several large outbuilding are used for storing and dyeing fabric. the main gate in the east heads up to the fields and along the side are several small barns for stabling caravans. the second wall meets the west gate to the temple and it a multi-winged building with several smaller courtyards and a large fountain in the main courtyard this has only the one gate into the town. The city contains several small "mills." most families own and keep a vegetable patch in their courtyard and maybe a few pygmy Gareth.
Assets
A midsized cistern, that is owned by one of the tribal families. there are several grain storehouses and lots of storage of dyed cloth. they also produce a lot of incent plants for the temple. the temple has the largest library in the country and a great deal of material wealth. they farm both grain in large quantities also dye plants and both types of soroc.
Guilds and Factions
Temple has a strong effect. there is tension in the settlement about the amount of "tribute" or aid the temple receives and how much outreach they do in the area the temple can be considered aloof from the others. (much more so than other priests are considered.
History
settled as a farming village caves drew in monastic people and then nobles seeking a closer relationship with priests began to settle temporarily.
Architecture
The buildings are limestone for the largest houses and temple outbuildings are rammed earth as are some of the smaller houses.
Geography
set up against a set of rocky hills with good feeding and plentiful farms an underground river fills the towns midsized cistern. the qurans run down from the cistern into the town and branch off for the farmland
Natural Resources
small wooded plants and grazing from the hills. clay is less common but plenty of building stone. dye plants do well here and there is local game in the hills. there is a small forest in the hills as well.
Alternative Name(s)
Oasis- of the guiding winds
Type
Large town
Population
12,000
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