I am making a city where a Baron meets with a Copper Dragon. The Copper Dragon specified that he wanted the Baron to build a city in this place in the hills so they could meet often to discuss world affairs. The baron was obligated to the king to serve as the ambassador to the (metallic) dragons, so he set about to place his home and city on the hill.
To help the baron get a start, the Copper Dragon made a large stone area on top of the hill that extended into the hill. The Dragon advised the baron to make friends with a group of dwarves who could perform astonishing feats in stone construction. And a population of dwarves started coming to his hilltop.
The Baron named the "not yet a city" Cuperium, because of the copper dragon. And the Dragon told the Baron there were rich deposits of copper under these hills. The city would be able to produce tons of copper for generations from these deposits.
The hilly landscape was not suitable to crops so for a few miles around the commoners herded sheep on the grassy slopes. Eventually a great enterprise of wool fabrics was a mainstay of the Cuperium economy. Exotic dyes were brought to the city for finishing the woolen cloth.
The dwarves petitioned to operate the mine and the details were ironed out. They began excavating their own subterranean city under Cuperium. It flourished and even more dwarves arrived.
The Copper Dragon decided to build a Lair on the site, under the city, but without impacting the dwarves. Using his ability to turn stone to mud, mud to stone and move earth, the Dragon built an extensive lair complex. In his lair he hosts Bards to expand his knowledge of lore and art. It took quite some time before the Bards were delivering Lore unknown to the Dragon, and the Dragon filled in the Bards on many bits of lore that were incomplete or not correct.
So this location has a few themes; The Baron, The Copper Dragon, the Dwarves City, Cuperium - The City of Stone, copper supply, wool fabric supply. This location isn't a central theme in the campaign, but the nation's relationship with the Metallic Dragons is a theme.
Do you have any ideas about this location to fill in the details that could become rumors or something else elsewhere in the kingdom?
Is it a desert region? Badlands? Grassy feilds as far was the eye can see? Besises poor soil for farming what kind of envioment is yhere? What plants are native, what animals live there?
Sounds like somethong out of a wild west story or thst scene in the canion iN Indiana Jones and the last crusade. .maybe there are local people that are migratory in nature like some Fistt Nation peoples, or the Bedouin. Are they frie dly, willing to trade, or are they riadwrs? Or perhaps the city was built on sacred ground and they are angrey outsiders are teampling all over it
The location of this city is in a band of hills that divide the southern extremes between two rivers from the highlands that are more level like a Savanah grassland. In this band of hills, the ground slopes too much one way or another to allow for regular farming. If the land were plowed and sown, the runoff would cause erosion that would harm the crops. But the native grasses have a good hold on the soil and serve as food for herds of sheep, goats and some wild game.
The "tribes" in the open Savanah follow herds after a fashion that calls to mind the native peoples of North America. They have a culture that celebrates a warrior/Hunter culture. The hunters and warriors seek trophies from hunting lions. They have the most excellent taxidermists that can turn a kill into an enduring display that are shared at the doorway of their tents.
The noblemen in The City of Stone fear the "tribes" will rise up and slaughter them so they keep a standing army to defend against that possibility.
The first Noble of Cuperium, became a Count, Count Ippasak. He was raised to become a Count by the king because he had found favor with The Copper Dragon. Around the 500-ish square miles of the Counts demense, lay five baronies of about 400 sq miles each. The baronies occupy land that is better for farming, so the Counts need for grains is mostly supplied by the barons around the Count.
About the time of the death of the first Count Ippasak, the first city wall was completed, enclosing a little more than 1.5 sq miles of land. This was assisted by the Copper dragon with his magical means for creating shaped stone. His son, the second Count Ippasak completed the second wall encompassing a total of three-and-a-half sq miles, including all the land inside the first wall. The third wall was not completed for two more generations.
The entrance the Dwarves cut into the hill was outside the second wall, but inside the third wall. Because of this, a large population of Hill Dwarves live inside the third wall. The Dwarves did live up to the promisses of the Copper Dragon by being able miners of the copper and able stone masons shaping the stone made available by The Dragon. To folks that study the stone, it appears to be quaried stone, shaped and joined with mortar to form walls, but when examined up close you will see there are no mortar joints, just straight smooth flutes cut into the stone to resemble mortar joints. But the stonework is often just textured to resemble stone construction when it is something else; massive stones given a surface facade.
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I am making a city where a Baron meets with a Copper Dragon. The Copper Dragon specified that he wanted the Baron to build a city in this place in the hills so they could meet often to discuss world affairs. The baron was obligated to the king to serve as the ambassador to the (metallic) dragons, so he set about to place his home and city on the hill.
To help the baron get a start, the Copper Dragon made a large stone area on top of the hill that extended into the hill. The Dragon advised the baron to make friends with a group of dwarves who could perform astonishing feats in stone construction. And a population of dwarves started coming to his hilltop.
The Baron named the "not yet a city" Cuperium, because of the copper dragon. And the Dragon told the Baron there were rich deposits of copper under these hills. The city would be able to produce tons of copper for generations from these deposits.
The hilly landscape was not suitable to crops so for a few miles around the commoners herded sheep on the grassy slopes. Eventually a great enterprise of wool fabrics was a mainstay of the Cuperium economy. Exotic dyes were brought to the city for finishing the woolen cloth.
The dwarves petitioned to operate the mine and the details were ironed out. They began excavating their own subterranean city under Cuperium. It flourished and even more dwarves arrived.
The Copper Dragon decided to build a Lair on the site, under the city, but without impacting the dwarves. Using his ability to turn stone to mud, mud to stone and move earth, the Dragon built an extensive lair complex. In his lair he hosts Bards to expand his knowledge of lore and art. It took quite some time before the Bards were delivering Lore unknown to the Dragon, and the Dragon filled in the Bards on many bits of lore that were incomplete or not correct.
So this location has a few themes; The Baron, The Copper Dragon, the Dwarves City, Cuperium - The City of Stone, copper supply, wool fabric supply. This location isn't a central theme in the campaign, but the nation's relationship with the Metallic Dragons is a theme.
Do you have any ideas about this location to fill in the details that could become rumors or something else elsewhere in the kingdom?
Is it a desert region? Badlands? Grassy feilds as far was the eye can see? Besises poor soil for farming what kind of envioment is yhere? What plants are native, what animals live there?
Sounds like somethong out of a wild west story or thst scene in the canion iN Indiana Jones and the last crusade. .maybe there are local people that are migratory in nature like some Fistt Nation peoples, or the Bedouin. Are they frie dly, willing to trade, or are they riadwrs? Or perhaps the city was built on sacred ground and they are angrey outsiders are teampling all over it
The location of this city is in a band of hills that divide the southern extremes between two rivers from the highlands that are more level like a Savanah grassland. In this band of hills, the ground slopes too much one way or another to allow for regular farming. If the land were plowed and sown, the runoff would cause erosion that would harm the crops. But the native grasses have a good hold on the soil and serve as food for herds of sheep, goats and some wild game.
The "tribes" in the open Savanah follow herds after a fashion that calls to mind the native peoples of North America. They have a culture that celebrates a warrior/Hunter culture. The hunters and warriors seek trophies from hunting lions. They have the most excellent taxidermists that can turn a kill into an enduring display that are shared at the doorway of their tents.
The noblemen in The City of Stone fear the "tribes" will rise up and slaughter them so they keep a standing army to defend against that possibility.
The first Noble of Cuperium, became a Count, Count Ippasak. He was raised to become a Count by the king because he had found favor with The Copper Dragon. Around the 500-ish square miles of the Counts demense, lay five baronies of about 400 sq miles each. The baronies occupy land that is better for farming, so the Counts need for grains is mostly supplied by the barons around the Count.
About the time of the death of the first Count Ippasak, the first city wall was completed, enclosing a little more than 1.5 sq miles of land. This was assisted by the Copper dragon with his magical means for creating shaped stone. His son, the second Count Ippasak completed the second wall encompassing a total of three-and-a-half sq miles, including all the land inside the first wall. The third wall was not completed for two more generations.
The entrance the Dwarves cut into the hill was outside the second wall, but inside the third wall. Because of this, a large population of Hill Dwarves live inside the third wall. The Dwarves did live up to the promisses of the Copper Dragon by being able miners of the copper and able stone masons shaping the stone made available by The Dragon. To folks that study the stone, it appears to be quaried stone, shaped and joined with mortar to form walls, but when examined up close you will see there are no mortar joints, just straight smooth flutes cut into the stone to resemble mortar joints. But the stonework is often just textured to resemble stone construction when it is something else; massive stones given a surface facade.