Sacred fountain

The town records its history in songs. According to those songs. One day, the people woke up surrounded by the crystal desert.
Confused and lost, they wandered the ruins and almost perished. It was then when they heard the song, the sacred fountain calling them towards safety. Since then, they have lived protected by its power. The fountain taught the people the right songs to make houses out of the desert crystals and provides all the water and soil needed for a comfortable life for everyone.
From time to time, outsiders arrive. They come from the desert, called by the Sacred Fountain. They are always lost, confused and almost dead when they are found. They remember little from their lives before entering the desert. People from the town sometimes leave in search of other settlements or other survivors. Sometimes they come back empty-handed. Sometimes they do not. The elders teach that the only ones who can find the town are those who can hear the songs. No one else can traverse the desert, which is the only thing left in the world outside the reaches of the Sacred Fountain.

Area

This town is in a semi-arid desert, but not one created by sand, but from an infinite number of crystals of diverse sizes. In the areas where the biggest crystal grows, very little to no life can exist. In other areas, where the number of large crystals is small, some plants and animals survive in the weird sand the crystal disintegrates into. This crystal desert covers an extensive area. Some consider the crystal growing there sacred. But almost all sources consider it one of the deadliest areas of the known world.

Climate

Warm Temperate Desert
Avg. Annual Temperature: 11C
Avg. Annual Precipitation: 183 mm
Avg. Annual Snowfall: 504 mm
Seasons: Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring
Prevailing Winds: northwest to southeast

From time to time, the crystal creates special storms, which are all lightning with no sound. Being caught in one of these storms is a death sentence, but they very rarely happen close to the town and even when they do. They have never entered it.

Demographics

This is a young but isolated town. The majority of the people living here have been born here. It's surrounded by the crystal desert, a harsh place, where nothing grows and nothing can survive long. Those few who are not born here have stumbled upon the town and have been given refuge there, as everyone who arrives seem to be on the verge of death.
They are simple people, who delight in the pleasure of growing things and singing.

• Farmers of the sacred fountain lands, where the town gets all their food.
• Gathered of stone and methal for everyday utensils
• Adobe makers or Crystal singers, for building construction

Total Population: 737
Primary Race: Humans
General Attitude: Inviting and Blunt

Breakdown

• Children: 155
• Adults: 479
• Elderly: 103

Infrastructure

The town has everything it needs for its survival, their streets and houses are made from the same crystal that grows in the desert, given shape by the crystal singers for different functions.
In heart of the town, The Sacred Fountain, is the only source of water and life in the desert.

Road Construction: Crystal cobblestone roads
Main Irrigation: Sacred Fontain
Number of Districts: 2

Districts

Sacred Fountain

This is the heart of the town, a large fountain, always emanating water, which is distributed between the fields surrounding it, where the food for the town grows. This whole area is considered sacred by everyone in town, the elders of the town, live here, as they are considered closer to the fountain.

Population: 64
Primary Building Style: Crystal
Aesthetics: Ornate

Singing place

Next to the farms. The handymen and crafters of the town build all the instruments anyone needs. This is not a residential area, as the houses here are used for those who are learning to build them using crystal singing.

Population: 0
Primary Building Style: Crystal
Secondary Building Styles: Adobe and Lined Fiber
Aesthetics: Utilitarian

Living place

This is where most people in town lives, it surrounds the other two districts, up to the place, where crystal singing no longer works.

Population: 365
Primary Building Style: Crystal and metal
Aesthetics: Utilitarian

Architecture

There are two main elements which compose the town.

• The omnipresent crystal, shaped into all kind of houses, buildings and roads
• Adobe which decorates most buildings to some degree.

Mud is not commonly found in the desert. It comes from the sacred fountain, to allow for crops to survive and thrive. These two factors, made mud and the adobe, that its crafted into, sacred elements, which decorates houses.