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losthellhound · 11-02-2003, 07:44 PM

Here is a description of the city from the end of the first chapter.. One of the main characters is looking out from a tower balcony..
Tell me what you think..

A soft breeze blew and he could hear the distant sound of swallows that had taken up residence on the many roofs of the Keepers’ Hall. From where he was standing he could see most of the city as it sprawled to the south. His keen eyesight caught every detail of the roofs and walls. Directly south of the tower he could see the guild district with its neatly ordered buildings and well maintained roads. Beyond that lay the market district, where buildings were less structured, and the roads were narrower. To the south of that and from the east right to the west was the residential district. There, homes seemed to grow out of every available space. Often one home was built upon the roof of another, looking like a giant’s child had thrown down its building blocks in rage. Beyond the collection of homes and hostels was the city wall. He knew that this was one of the only vantage points that could see the top of the walls and what lay beyond. The wall was high, and topped with a large causeway wide enough for twenty men to walk abreast. It was empty now, as it usually was, for nothing lay beyond it. Few could look out from the wall without a feeling of unease and scan the horizon of grey cloud and sky without feeling completely isolated. That is what Daer’Kalon was, isolated. It was the only land in a sea of abyss that no one would put a name to. The city took up every bit of space it could, and the wall surrounded that, as if to hold the entire populace in for fear of them falling off its solid surface into nothing.

11-02-2003, 07:44 PM	#23 (permalink)
losthellhound Thats MR. Muffin Face now Location: Everywhere work sends me	Here is a description of the city from the end of the first chapter.. One of the main characters is looking out from a tower balcony.. Tell me what you think.. A soft breeze blew and he could hear the distant sound of swallows that had taken up residence on the many roofs of the Keepers’ Hall. From where he was standing he could see most of the city as it sprawled to the south. His keen eyesight caught every detail of the roofs and walls. Directly south of the tower he could see the guild district with its neatly ordered buildings and well maintained roads. Beyond that lay the market district, where buildings were less structured, and the roads were narrower. To the south of that and from the east right to the west was the residential district. There, homes seemed to grow out of every available space. Often one home was built upon the roof of another, looking like a giant’s child had thrown down its building blocks in rage. Beyond the collection of homes and hostels was the city wall. He knew that this was one of the only vantage points that could see the top of the walls and what lay beyond. The wall was high, and topped with a large causeway wide enough for twenty men to walk abreast. It was empty now, as it usually was, for nothing lay beyond it. Few could look out from the wall without a feeling of unease and scan the horizon of grey cloud and sky without feeling completely isolated. That is what Daer’Kalon was, isolated. It was the only land in a sea of abyss that no one would put a name to. The city took up every bit of space it could, and the wall surrounded that, as if to hold the entire populace in for fear of them falling off its solid surface into nothing. __________________ "Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?" -- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death