Post by Robyn Hood on Jun 17, 2012 19:24:54 GMT -5
Perhaps the city with the most beauty in Mayameros is Lakora, the lake city. The city is placed on an island in the center of a large lake that sits at the bottom of a valley in the Shade Tree Mountains. Lakora’s architecture is designed not for safety but for beauty. They are a peaceful city, and are loving people at heart.
The races if Lakora consist of Elves, Humans, Kitsunes, Nekosunes, Dryads, a small number of local Dwarves and a few Dopplegangers that take the most beautiful form they can manage.
Lakora believes in beauty within just as much as they believe in outside beauty, therefore many of the Mayameros Sorcerers attend the training school, The Mighty Painting. Most of the pure scientist also originate from Lakora.
The city’s structure is not designed for protection of siege, however that does not mean it is not prepared. Most of their defense strategies consist of a bate based trap. In other words, they would lead the sieging army into the city’s countless archways and winding roads. The internal structure of the city is a labyrinth that only the citizens could navigate through safely. At that point, sorcerers and bow snipers would kill the now trapped army.
If a day ever came that the city was threatened by a much stronger weapon than ever seen before, the city might face total utter destruction. For example, Mortumlovia used to use a ballista defense method for attacking armies or vessels, however they recently have developed a barreled mechanism that conducts a controlled explosion launching the same ballista style bolt much further in distance. They call it a cannon. See, ballistas could never match the range needed for the city, so it was impossible to take it with that method. But the cannon can fire the same spike with enough speed and distance to easily hit the center of the city. Not only that, but an explosion would erupt upon impact that could level a siege tower. Also, the bolt had recently been engineered to break apart into five bolts on the way down after being launched, each one creating the same sized explosion.
The city has the largest bank in Mayameros, The Lake Side Bank. That is where the new currency is issued out for all of Mayameros, delivered by the crafters in Brektonya. Lakora also contains more than double the amount of the supplies the other cities have at any one time. This is because when they import crops, live stock, and other basic need supplies, they save one fifth of them immediately within the bank’s food vault.
The lake supplies all of their water needs. Scientists have crafted the first indoor plumbing system for the city’s citizens to use. They also have ensured the water’s purity before the plumbing exists back into the lake. The weakness would be if a newly created toxin or a powerful magic based poison infected the entire lake, their water resource would be exterminated.
Even though Lakora understands the business agreement between their city and Brektonya is just that, they have vowed to themselves that if Brektonya was ever attacked they would aid if they could. Secretly they hope Brektonya would do the same. If the city was taken none of the citizens would escape freely aside from certain sorcerers that practice Air, Water or Reality magic very well.
The races if Lakora consist of Elves, Humans, Kitsunes, Nekosunes, Dryads, a small number of local Dwarves and a few Dopplegangers that take the most beautiful form they can manage.
Lakora believes in beauty within just as much as they believe in outside beauty, therefore many of the Mayameros Sorcerers attend the training school, The Mighty Painting. Most of the pure scientist also originate from Lakora.
The city’s structure is not designed for protection of siege, however that does not mean it is not prepared. Most of their defense strategies consist of a bate based trap. In other words, they would lead the sieging army into the city’s countless archways and winding roads. The internal structure of the city is a labyrinth that only the citizens could navigate through safely. At that point, sorcerers and bow snipers would kill the now trapped army.
If a day ever came that the city was threatened by a much stronger weapon than ever seen before, the city might face total utter destruction. For example, Mortumlovia used to use a ballista defense method for attacking armies or vessels, however they recently have developed a barreled mechanism that conducts a controlled explosion launching the same ballista style bolt much further in distance. They call it a cannon. See, ballistas could never match the range needed for the city, so it was impossible to take it with that method. But the cannon can fire the same spike with enough speed and distance to easily hit the center of the city. Not only that, but an explosion would erupt upon impact that could level a siege tower. Also, the bolt had recently been engineered to break apart into five bolts on the way down after being launched, each one creating the same sized explosion.
The city has the largest bank in Mayameros, The Lake Side Bank. That is where the new currency is issued out for all of Mayameros, delivered by the crafters in Brektonya. Lakora also contains more than double the amount of the supplies the other cities have at any one time. This is because when they import crops, live stock, and other basic need supplies, they save one fifth of them immediately within the bank’s food vault.
The lake supplies all of their water needs. Scientists have crafted the first indoor plumbing system for the city’s citizens to use. They also have ensured the water’s purity before the plumbing exists back into the lake. The weakness would be if a newly created toxin or a powerful magic based poison infected the entire lake, their water resource would be exterminated.
Even though Lakora understands the business agreement between their city and Brektonya is just that, they have vowed to themselves that if Brektonya was ever attacked they would aid if they could. Secretly they hope Brektonya would do the same. If the city was taken none of the citizens would escape freely aside from certain sorcerers that practice Air, Water or Reality magic very well.