Lorinne
The first thing one notices about Lorinne is the smell of these peat fires. It is a tarry, burnt-oil smell and rises from chimneys beyond number. Lorinne is by far the largest city in the north, and it is sometimes known as the City of Ten Thousand Smokes, though you think that estimate might be fairly outdated.
GATE GUARDS
Those who would enter the city will be stopped at the gate and questioned. The guards demand to know 1) name of each visitor, 2) business here, and 3) where they plan to stay. They are then warned that no weapons beyond knives (or messers) should be routinely carried with the right of arms, and drawing a weapon in public is a criminal offense with a penalty of no less than 5 shillings (10 or more if then used in the commission of another crime).
GATE GUARDS
Those who would enter the city will be stopped at the gate and questioned. The guards demand to know 1) name of each visitor, 2) business here, and 3) where they plan to stay. They are then warned that no weapons beyond knives (or messers) should be routinely carried with the right of arms, and drawing a weapon in public is a criminal offense with a penalty of no less than 5 shillings (10 or more if then used in the commission of another crime).
Government
Was Feudal overlord (the Countess of Boulais), now a direct monarchy (the Queen of Leonessa)
Architecture
A look at Lorinne's architecture shows a city that is slowly consuming itself. Founded during the height of Carolingian engineering, many of the monumental buildings and paved streets from that era have been cannibalized over the centuries to build other less impressive, even makeshift structures that now make up most of the town. Where wide boulevards once graced the city, three- and four-story buildings now crowd together and hunch over the narrow streets and alleys. These later additions are mostly wattle-and-daub and timber-framed affairs, but given the local sparsity of suitable wood, many of the buildings were made with suboptimal timbers and now sag and lean precariously.
The smoke from the constant fires turns most plaster a dull gray in a matter of months, and it gives the air a constant pall. Combined with the height and closeness of the buildings, that are many streets where the sunlight only reaches the ground for short periods of the day, or not at all.
The smoke from the constant fires turns most plaster a dull gray in a matter of months, and it gives the air a constant pall. Combined with the height and closeness of the buildings, that are many streets where the sunlight only reaches the ground for short periods of the day, or not at all.
Geography
The city of Lorinne sits on the banks of the Godsmere Shallows, a large but shallow lake fed by two rivers. Local tradition says that the Shallows were created by the Lion's Redoubt, a massive Carolingian-era dam that controls the flow of the Leonine River, the only outflow of the Shallows. It is said the city was once surrounded by forest, but that must have been centuries ago, because now there are not more than a handful of trees for miles around it. Farms surround the city for miles to support its thousands of residents, and everything not under cultivation seems to be treeless peat bogs that stretch for miles and provide the source of fuel for fires.
Alternative Name(s)
City of Ten Thousand Smokes
Type
Large city
Population
30,000
Inhabitant Demonym
Lorinnites
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