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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7821743" data-attributes="member: 996">A village could start at the site of a regular gathering.  Like a market day, or a religious festival, or whatever.  Or it might start at a site frequented at a certain time of year, for hunting or refuge from flooding or whatever seasonal exigencies might apply.  Eventually, some folks start to stick around the area, maybe specializing in something relevant.   They build a temple at the site of the religious festival.  Or craftsmen start living at the site of the market day.  The village grows up around those beginnings. Villages also notoriously got founded at crossroads, or fords (how many ______fords are there?), or other places where people coming from or going to different more distant places would meet.  It'd become a place /too/ meet.  Then, maybe a waystation, inn, fort or the like might be built, and it's a place in it's own right.  A village could grow up around it.And, of course, a village could grow up around a natural resource, a river/lake/stream even spring or well, a mine, good farmland or hunting grounds - in a fantasy world, the spring could have healing properties, the resource could be rare/magical herbs, crystals, or something that could be gathered, or a place blessed by a deity or spirits or the presence of kindly fey or even a territorial 'monster' that doesn't care about the humanoid inhabitants but scares off other hungry/dangerous monsters.</blockquote>

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