tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752010860639064233.post1692289571645134338..comments2023-07-12T06:59:28.442-05:00Comments on <center>About Bruce Heard and New Stories</center>: Citadel: City of DungeonsBruce Heardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929476133092132896noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752010860639064233.post-66064217570193558862013-03-08T06:05:26.992-06:002013-03-08T06:05:26.992-06:00Thanks! This was a fun entry to develop. :)Thanks! This was a fun entry to develop. :)Bruce Heardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02929476133092132896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752010860639064233.post-7738285417566425822012-11-21T12:05:22.473-06:002012-11-21T12:05:22.473-06:00Wow! Big comment. :-)
I vaguely remember the re...Wow! Big comment. :-)<br /><br />I vaguely remember the reference to Wendar's ley lines. The difference here is that those in Citadel are entirely artificial. Other than that, I can't see why there couldn't be a link between the two.<br /><br />Floating disks are very good idea. Pigeons are fine, but magical messaging would be more appropriate. Imagine a network of boxes back-lit with continual lights, and a series of little crystal keys with which you could enter messages or send phantasmal images. The message would appear on another box. For an additional fee, motion and sound could be added. It might be called the interhex (or the spellnet)! It could also support a service called Face-Grimoire (groan...)<br /><br />I like the idea of the canyon streets. I'm sure that can easily be worked into the description of the city. It would help explain the population level and make the city so much creepier. Sounds good. Thanks for the suggestions!Bruce Heardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02929476133092132896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752010860639064233.post-26293648741101949782012-11-20T17:46:54.426-06:002012-11-20T17:46:54.426-06:00I'm slowly trying to be up to date with your a...<br />I'm slowly trying to be up to date with your awesome articles but your writing is way faster than my reading... <br /><br />Anyway, I like a lot the concepts you introduced in Citadel's description, especially the ley lines. Could the knowledge of such a magic could have been imported (or stolen) from Wendar? I remember a very interesting article you wrote (http://pandius.com/leylines.html) some time ago. I also envision a possible connection with the magic that powers the wind galleys of Niscosenia (from an article of Geoff Gander: http://pandius.com/niscosen.html , see especially the end of the article). <br /><br />I would also like to suggest a few more features useful for Citadel's everyday life:<br /><br />- The "floating disc" spell would be an extremely useful tool to move goods to shops and warehouses across the steep slopes of the city. There could be a dedicated service of porters able to use this spell who provide their services for a (not so) modest fee to the middle-income part of the society. <br /><br />- In my opinion the most efficient way to send messages across the city would be by homing pigeons (a very non magic vay). There could be superior breeds who possess an enhanced memory to remember the route through the everchanging cityscape, or even magical breeds (maybe linked - or ancestor -to the old magical crows used by the Council of Alphatia) with the power to memorize and repeat a short message, who knows.<br /><br />- The odd cityscape would likely create true "canyons of buildings" at the bottom of which daylight is very scarce even at midday. There could be groups of "illuminators", paid by the municipality or by the quarter's inhabitants, whose work would be to carefully place mirrors and magical lights in order to divert some daylight to the most shady streets. By the way, such dark places could also be an attractive spot for the Shadow Lords of Eadrin, couldn't it?<br /><br />- Providing water to the topmost building of the pile would be a challenge even for modern standards, I suppose. What about an odd plumbing system powered by water elementals in the bottom level of the city?<br /><br />Hope these could be of any help!<br />LoZompatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15531087744841747217noreply@blogger.com