Re: [Adonthell-artwork] A partial description of Erinsford, from a novel in progress

[Andrew Phillips]

To go into more detail on Erinsford, I imagine it to be a moderately fortified town of some several thousand people. It's not a city, though, and in no way comparable to Cirdanth or Elgilad. It is such because while it's a large town, perhaps a few miles across at its widest point, it's not a densely populated sort of place or cosmopolitan in the way that Cirdanth is. There are literally entire working farms - pigs, dairy, food crops, and so on -  inside the outer curtain wall.

 

The town is much more dense inside the middle wall, in what is predictably called the Old Town. The wealthiest and most established citizens and businesses are to be found there, within the much more defensible middle wall. The Old Town, which is on the north side of the town, with Wyvern Keep at its center, sits atop a large granite outcropping. The Old Town will support lawns and gardens, but not full-scale farming. Of course, Wyvern Keep is a castle in the truest sense of the word.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 17:53, Andrew Phillips <address@hidden> wrote:

Actually, there are now two novels: the one I spent two years on, set during the Marring of the World, The Tale of Five Brothers, which is completely drafted, and the one I took a two year break from and which I am now back to working on, called The Eye of Aethr. These two excerpts are from what is now the 14th chapter of Aethr.

 

I did indeed hit send before I meant to. I am going to send another version of the same email with the full excerpts from both the boy's perspective and the Ranger's.

 

Yes, I do think that the period described in the novel is either the height of Erinsford's existence or a period so soon after it that the decline has not yet become apparent to anyone except the most sensitive of its citizens. Things were at their very best under Elissathal and Erik after her. Things started going downhill under Garrett, not so much because he was a bad lord, but because the evils of the wider world started to find Erinsford.

 

I also plan to have the group go up into the Belerinath to the Abbey of Shining Mist and maybe see some other sites in the area - the cemetery and the Well of Songs - but not anything that would spoil the surprise for v0.4. I'm being very careful to keep the heroes in the dark about what our dear Marcella will have to learn.

 

Also, there is a Bonemage chasing the group, and a mad and very bewitched Magehunter chasing the Bonemage. Should be lots of fun.

 

Andrew

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 17:33, Kai Sterker <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Andrew Phillips <address@hidden> wrote:

> I thought I might offer up a small portion of the novel I'm currently
> working on, which is set in the Cirdan kingdom about a century or so before
> the events of Waste's Edge.

Is that still the same you've been working on a while ago?

> Told from Koeseric's perspective:

[snip]

Gives the impression of a fairly large, well-fortified town. Possibly
even civilized, although there are no references about culture. But it
does seem that this time period was probably the peak of Erinford's
existence?


> Told from Feldis' perspective:

Forgot to paste something here? Or was something of the above meant to go here?


Anyway, nice to see that our universe is still growing and taking shape :-).

Kai


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