Liton Tais
Stanton's Wonder
The earthen cliffs jut from ocean,Liton Tais is a town drilled into the side of the eastern cliffs of Lanasu Island, designed by Master-Architect Carolinus Stanton. Serving as a center for administration of the eastern half of Lanasu, it is also a trading hub, linking the capital district in the west with the trading ports in the east. The Order of Aeramen, having planned and built this town, has a heavy presence, with citizens working in shipyards and brick kilns around the city proper. This sleepy harbor town has become bustling with activity in the past few weeks. Colren is mustering troops "for the defense of the frontier". That is fooling no one: everyone knows they are preparing for an invasion of Mitrand. The sudden influx of troops has exacerbated class tensions, annoyed townsfolk, and worried the Society of Magisters, as their members begin disappearing one by one. Confused, the Society must find their lost members and conceal their terrible secret before troops deploy in one week.
The umber wood hugs the river,
The golden sun sets behind us,
The silver moon hangs overhead.
– Liton Tais, Marimon
Infrastructure and Architecture
The city is built on five levels, each fifty feet above the next, dug directly into the cliffs of Lanasu. The settlement has no real defensive structures, but the naturally defensible cliff is more than enough to stop any bandit raids. The town demonstrates Colreic architecture throughout: short, squat buildings of red oak and monarch pine, built on brick and stone foundations dug half a meter into the cliff. The wooden portion above the foundation is composed of elegant oak archways, combined with a slightly sloped pine roof. All the buildings mutually complement each other, and careful planning makes sure that they can weather even the strongest storm.Geography, Government, Guilds, and Factions
Demographics
Demographics by ElementalShrike
Natural Resources
The natural resources include sulfur, iron, copper, and timber, and clay, found around the settlement. The falls of the Lena River power mills for the grain produced above the city. The river and sea contain large numbers of fish, boosting the food sources of the town.
- Light blue is water (river/ocean)
- Light green is farmland supporting the village
- Dark green lines are inter-town roads
- Dark green area is city area (cliffside and harbor)
Alternative Name(s)
Cliffside Village, Stanton's Wonder
Type
Town
Population
744 (~1350 including serfs)
Inhabitant Demonym
Tais Dweller
Location under
Owning Organization
Imports
Exports
- cotton
- timber
- tin
- iron
- silver
- millet
- stone
- copper
- sulfur
- pipegrass
- ships
- silk
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Since you asked specifically about the demographics, I went to do some digging: I'm assuming a medieval type of world, though, so some of this data may or may not be terribly useful to you. But I hope it helps! From what I know, 80% farmers sounds about right for medieval times. http://ludusludorum.com/2014/10/28/get-medieval-the-village-in-the-middle-ages/ 1250~ does sound reasonable at a larger village, though I wonder how the land is divided. A few village elites owning most of the land and renting it out, or a landed noble doing that, or... Perhaps some other configuration. :) What kind of ships are they building here? Depending on what size and kind, 75 people split between sailors and shipbuilders might be a bit low. I wasn't able to find much information on medieval shipbuilding (there's apparently not really a ton of records about it), so I can't say for sure though. This was the best I could find: https://www.quora.com/How-were-medieval-sailing-ships-built Another question: given the village's location (burrowed into a cliff), where exactly are the farmlands and ranches? I could only see a mention of grain being grown "above" the city; how do they get there? :) In a similar vein, they're described to be drilled into the side of the cliff, but have typical architecture with wooden houses. No houses or galleries carved right out of the stone? All in all, it's a neat concept (I love cliff-cities) nicely executed without becoming too long. <3
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Answers to your questions: The city is built in multiple levels near the middle of the cliff all the way up to the top: the farmland spills out outside the city limits on top of the cliff. There are strict regulations on the city: because a lot of diplomats and merchants are passing through the city and that it was a specially planned city unlike the others, which simply grew out of towns, so houses can vary a little but not a lot. However, stone seems like a more useful building material so I'm now using it for my foundations.