Silldon
Silldon, occasionally mispronounced as Stilldon (it's original name), is a town within Genx region of Malnax.
The town is owned by the Druids of the the Druids' Litter. They took over the town for the location and the Orphanage.
Different types of natural houses
* Adobe = made from a great variety of soil and water, blended to cake mix consistency, then cast into moulds. Once the bricks are firm enough they get turned onto their sides to dry in the sun, where they shrink, so they are less likely to crack once used in a building.
* Rammed earth = Walls are formed from soil that is just damp enough to hold together. The soil gets tamped between boxing frames with manual or pneumatic rammers. This method is limited to the shapes that can be built with removable boxing - some show signs of cracking.
* Cob = a mix of straw, a sandy soil and often small gravel. The stiff mixture is formed into cob (an old English word for ‘lumps’, eg cobbles, cobblestone) which are then thrown onto the wall and stamped (by foot) or worked into the previous layer to form a wall of almost any shape you like. It is then usually rendered to give it a smooth surface.
* Straw bale = good insulation values, and can be built with relative ease and speed. They may be load-bearing, but more often they incorporate a post-and-beam frame. The bales are finished with a coat of plaster, often earth or lime-based.
* Wattle and Daub = a mixture of usually fine sticks are woven together (the wattle) and the daub is the mud which is pushed into the sticks to build up a wall.
Each home has an original sill from the houses of the past. (Sill = a shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window opening or doorway. A strong horizontal beam forming a base in the frame of a timber-framed building.)
The town is owned by the Druids of the the Druids' Litter. They took over the town for the location and the Orphanage.
Different types of natural houses
* Adobe = made from a great variety of soil and water, blended to cake mix consistency, then cast into moulds. Once the bricks are firm enough they get turned onto their sides to dry in the sun, where they shrink, so they are less likely to crack once used in a building.
* Rammed earth = Walls are formed from soil that is just damp enough to hold together. The soil gets tamped between boxing frames with manual or pneumatic rammers. This method is limited to the shapes that can be built with removable boxing - some show signs of cracking.
* Cob = a mix of straw, a sandy soil and often small gravel. The stiff mixture is formed into cob (an old English word for ‘lumps’, eg cobbles, cobblestone) which are then thrown onto the wall and stamped (by foot) or worked into the previous layer to form a wall of almost any shape you like. It is then usually rendered to give it a smooth surface.
* Straw bale = good insulation values, and can be built with relative ease and speed. They may be load-bearing, but more often they incorporate a post-and-beam frame. The bales are finished with a coat of plaster, often earth or lime-based.
* Wattle and Daub = a mixture of usually fine sticks are woven together (the wattle) and the daub is the mud which is pushed into the sticks to build up a wall.
Each home has an original sill from the houses of the past. (Sill = a shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window opening or doorway. A strong horizontal beam forming a base in the frame of a timber-framed building.)
History
The settlement of Stilldon was a small town mainly home to some Human and Dwarves, located near Bowwood to offer housing to the workers of the Bowwood woodmill. An orphange was built there provide further workers as the children aged up.
The teenagers were taught to climb trees to tie rope lines. While the younger children were given places to play, in areas know to be home to Harpies, as distaction to the winged creatures.
The three original members of the Druids' Litter grew up in the Silldon Orphanage. They grew up playing in the Bowwood Forest and saw natural has important. As they grew up they learnt about the plants and animals around the area.
When they returned, they used their combined magic to mind delve and take over the settlement, creating natural built houses - keeping only the wide sills of the original houses.
The teenagers were taught to climb trees to tie rope lines. While the younger children were given places to play, in areas know to be home to Harpies, as distaction to the winged creatures.
The three original members of the Druids' Litter grew up in the Silldon Orphanage. They grew up playing in the Bowwood Forest and saw natural has important. As they grew up they learnt about the plants and animals around the area.
When they returned, they used their combined magic to mind delve and take over the settlement, creating natural built houses - keeping only the wide sills of the original houses.
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