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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 4414978" data-attributes="member: 18363">Grr... My post was eatten!I'll try to cover the two points again:The first point I wished to make was that if you have not yet mapped out your city, there is a cartography forum at this site that might be willing to help you. You would likely need to supply a few details (how many major roadways, city walls, major structures [and the types and perhaps location within the city of the latter], the local terrain and climate, and so forth). But with these details the minds that post on that forum could perhaps create a city design that would both suit your purpose(s) and also look quite nice as well. <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55" target="_blank">Art Gallery, Cartography, and Miniatures Forum</a>The second point was a re-iteration and expansion of the comments I have made regarding power sources in the city. Every social unit needs a certain amount of stability and order to remain cohesive. If law does not exist - and by law I mean only a set of regulations that are enforced, not necessarily being the organization of laws as we know them - then the society will sooner or later fall apart into anarchy. The order can come from any of the power sources. The local lord(s) might have traditional laws, taxes, rights, and so forth that they enforce through the use of a town guard. Or perhaps the local major temple uses its temple guards to maintain order, the laws based upon religious laws. The local lord in this situation may be a (high) priest, or he may (out of belief or lack of power) defer to the temple - perhaps believing (or stating such a belief) that the temple is the only body with the authority to rule on moral and ethical matters. Do not forget the crime lords. If the local lord(s) and even the local temple(s) lack the means of supplying order, sooner or later some enterprising criminal will gather such a force as to become the law. During the middle ages such were called 'Robber Barons' - persons who - while outlaws - had such a strength of force that they ruled some obscure town or rural region as if they were the local lord. They collected 'taxes' (or protection money, as it might be called in more recent times), and they typically forbade others from committing crime without the boss's say-so (or at least a cut of any profits that might be made). Or the crime lords might exist in a more mafia styled structure. Either way, so long as a pattern of order is created (even if via force), then the society can continue to exist and evolve.</blockquote>

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