Baaaaaaaaaah! The US calls things 1/10th the size of Manchester a city! I have proof!In US terms it is just up the road and it's a town
Ah, yes. I too have driven around Houston, Texas.
Yeah, but that also has a lot to do with how the state incorporates municipalities. Here in Illinois, population has very little to do with it, and we only really have "Villages" or "Cities" (there's 15ish "Towns"), and the only real difference is a villiage's governing board is exactly six elected members and a president (who may be called a "mayor" as custom dictates) while a city can have more than six elected members (typically called an "alderman" regardless of gender identification) and a person specifically called a "mayor." "Town" is just a holdover from municipalities incorporated before the 1872 Cities and Villiages Act (I mean, there's a little more to it, but that's it in a nutshell. You can read the law here if you're into that sort of thing.)
I mean... I live in a town (Santa Barbara) 100 miles (160km) north of Los Angeles city center - but if there hadn't been a soap opera in the 80's with my town's name, I'd just say "Los Angeles" to folks not aware of California geography...
Not arguable at all. The elemental temple in G3 came out years before the Temple of Elemental Evil did (and seemed to suggest that the temple was devoted to the Elder Elemental Eye and not the four dorks of elemental evil).
He's a New Yorker!
In California, town/city status is just about whether it's been legally incorporated. As far as I know, there's no bottom population limit to being a city.
At this point, it's a pretty firmly established bit of canon that those four are just lieutenants for Tharizdun, aka the Evil Elemental Eye. Affirmed as recently as Bigby Presents here, butnpretty firmly established in Princes of the Apocalypse, too.
