Gorod Barana
Gorod Barana is the settlement utilized by Junn Harr shepherds and goatherds during the summer months. Located in a wide, high plain between two spurs of the Zheltya Gory (Yellow Mountains). This plain stretches for nearly 120 miles at the mouth of the spurs and runs more than 200 miles into the range, offering an area of exceptional summer grasses and browse covering more than 10,000 square miles. Nearly 100,000 sheep and goats are herded here every year, and the centuries-old settlement for the Junn Harr working and managing the herds can exceed 15,000 souls every summer.
From late May and early June until the end of September, these Junn Harr herds are kept in the high grasslands around Gorod Barana (which means City of Rams in Junnharic) before being led back south to the Caldar River regions for sale, barter or trade in the winter. Gorod Barana is a little different than the other Junn cities of the Steppe in that there are quite a number of stone and timber buildings that are built with the intention that they do not have to be physically moved when the annual migration begins. These buildings are mostly utilitarian in nature, being primarily barns and shearhouses used to shear and store raw wool during the summer months. Clear, cold rivers and springs are harnessed to help wash and process the wool (both before and after shearing), and stone-walled folds and pens are located all around the settlement.
Gorod Barana also has a larger year-round population than its northern and southern counterparts. Nearly 1,500 Junn Harr live in this large valley all year, and when not catering to herders and their charges, they hunt the nearby Yellow Mountains for wild game, including Auroch, Giant Cave Bear, Mastodon, Megaloceros, bison, wild mountain sheep and goats, and the occasional Wyvern or Dragon.
Demographics
Very nearly 100% Junn Harr
Government
When the gorod is at its most populus, indiviudal families and tribes are responsible for their member's conduct and behavior, but there is an established leader of the settlement for the people that live here year round. His (or her) title is palach/palachya, which means "chief" or "head-man" in Junnharic and is responsible for community decisions and judgements. The current Palachya is Tanya Kresnikov.
Industry & Trade
Several shearing and wool processing operations, as well as necessary horse and camel operations. There are also several full time hunting operations that venture out into the surrounding Yellow Mountains in search of meat and hides.
Infrastructure
The gorod is a large circular area of nearly two square miles surrounded by low-walled fields, pens, folds and barns. As the vast majority of livestock that is sheltered and tended here are sheep, most of the infrastructure is centered on sheep, shearing, fleece harvesting and wool storage. There are several packed-earth roads leading in and out of the gorod, and the full-time residents of the city have built there homes along these roads. The transient camps of araks are found seasonally within the circular settlement.
Type
Camp, Temporary
Population
1,500 full-time residents, and 15,000 transients
Location under
Owner/Ruler
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