A massive city, one of the Tri-Cities making up a massive farming community, sprawling and only semi-urban on the side of the city that contains large ports and harbours and on the side that leads into large farming areas it is less urbanised. It is ruled over by a mayor that is elected in the city by the farming and trading guilds, rather than the people. Jaklyjy Jal acts a intermediary to the the large farm lands to the west and exports their goods to the south where it is sometimes taken down along the coast south to Fench, Fobos and The Holy Lands. Other times they are taken up the Anuk Jaklyjy river towards The Marshes.
Districts
There are four districts within Jaklyjy Jal. There is; the heavily urbanised port, the rural sprawling farms, the residential district and The True City.
The Port District
The Port Half is known for the trading companies and architecturally known for the tall buildings that are usually square but with rounded and spired roofs. It is very low in actual residents, it is mostly businesses and large trading company buildings with small, narrow streets and alleyways, contrasted by very large and wide main roads to support carriages. Which are large and chocked full of grain and produce.
The Farm District
The Farming Half is comparitively very rural however it tends to have large sprawling fields managed by farmers living in either the slums or they live in nicer homes closer to the centre of The Residential District. There are some homes in The Farming District, but it is mostly barns and fields. They largely trade meat and grain with the inner city but within the farm district the companies have land which is specifically theirs, within that land they produce what is considered the highest quality of meat, fruits and vegetables. The produce from this land is often juicier and twice the size of the ones sold by other farms. In foreign lands this is what the city is most known for, trading in the highest quality of produce although they produce all qualities, exporting what the farms make most of the time.
The Residential District
This is where the large majority of people who live in the city are housed and it is where the large slums are holding thousands of people. The inner residential area, closer to the centre is very tightly packed with buildings as little as a metre apart. The buildings are often two or three storeys, ending with spired roofs that sometimes hold an attic. Underneath are basements which sometimes connect to The Catacombs. The slums are made out of many shanty towns on the edges with incredibly poor living conditions, most of the roofs leak and they have barely any insulation.
The True City
The True City is the centre of high society within Jaklyjy Jal, filled with manors and courts. In the centre of this physically walled off part of the city is the mayor's manor. This part of the city has a large wall around it, behind and infront of this wall there is a dry moat and at the bottom of these moats is a very large amount of spikes, made of wood and steel. The bridges that go into The True City are only drawbridges. It is a fortress more difficult to enter than any other except for maybe Entra.
The Catacombs
There are two catacombs within the city of Jaklyjy Jal, one is the residential catacombs and the other is The True Catacombs. The residential catacombs are the most well known as a large amount of people lived there, they were made when the mayor of Jaklyjy Jal assigned an amount of land to the residential area, kept to it years later when the residential area had grown in population so there was not enough space to house people. Wherein the people realised it was not stated how far down the restriction allows them to live, so the catacombs were dug. Housing a large series of tunnels supported by wood and stone, that enter into different homes carved out of the rock. Then when the mayor after lifted the restriction, the catacombs stopped being dug and the slums started on the edges of the residential area.
The True Catacombs were dug under The True City and all entrances to them were doors made of steel that have several massive deadbolts on the inner side, so that if The True City is ever assaulted and the attackers get in, the lords can retreat into the true catacombs under the city. In those catacombs are a very large amount of supplies, it is said but not known that a tunnel was dug that allows you to escape the true catacombs to an area far out from the city.
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