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<blockquote data-quote="Warbringer" data-source="post: 6853306" data-attributes="member: 14391">start here<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=elven+cities+images&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=628&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj6gb-istDLAhUWz2MKHVwMCQgQ_AUIBigB" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=elven+cities+images&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=628&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj6gb-istDLAhUWz2MKHVwMCQgQ_AUIBigB</a>Pick a couple of images and start to think who build this? where did the materials come from? how do they maintain it? who do they protect it? how far way is the next city? How do the cities communicate and transport goods between each other? How do they trade? (a coin based system exists for trade - who guarantees the value of the coin (inherent, royalty, political houses, merchant houses). What is the word like between the cities? Monster ridden? Lost paths? Everybody living freely and happily ever after?Start to think about why the cities trade, and what makes a city a city? All the same clan/family/royal lineage. Maybe based on trade advantage - (for example in my homebrew, different dwarven clans &quot;own&quot; the rights to make certain goods as long as the goods don't fall in quality - so one clan is axes/swords, another armor, other work tools - some houses share the rights, but for making steel vs mithril goods - other houses are the mining houses. Ancient old trade agreements set the prices long ago)Finally how is society organized. Even &quot;good&quot; societies are not egalitarian. Is there theft? disagreements? betrayals? then there will be an under belly. So how does that look. How is crime handled when it occurs ...and so on <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbringer, post: 6853306, member: 14391"] start here [url]https://www.google.com/search?q=elven+cities+images&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=628&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6gb-istDLAhUWz2MKHVwMCQgQ_AUIBigB[/url] Pick a couple of images and start to think who build this? where did the materials come from? how do they maintain it? who do they protect it? how far way is the next city? How do the cities communicate and transport goods between each other? How do they trade? (a coin based system exists for trade - who guarantees the value of the coin (inherent, royalty, political houses, merchant houses). What is the word like between the cities? Monster ridden? Lost paths? Everybody living freely and happily ever after? Start to think about why the cities trade, and what makes a city a city? All the same clan/family/royal lineage. Maybe based on trade advantage - (for example in my homebrew, different dwarven clans "own" the rights to make certain goods as long as the goods don't fall in quality - so one clan is axes/swords, another armor, other work tools - some houses share the rights, but for making steel vs mithril goods - other houses are the mining houses. Ancient old trade agreements set the prices long ago) Finally how is society organized. Even "good" societies are not egalitarian. Is there theft? disagreements? betrayals? then there will be an under belly. So how does that look. How is crime handled when it occurs ... and so on :) [/QUOTE]

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