Re: 101 essential things in a sword and sorcery city
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Originally Posted by Toxoplasma
Sounds like Bangkok, really.
Ugly subterranean pit-fighting venues.
Splendid arenas where men are torn apart by fearsome wild beasts from all over the world.
Bath-houses, with steam-rooms and cold rooms and burly masseurs and oily young did-I-mention whores.
Slave markets.
How many of these are there in Bangkok, as a rough estimate?
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Re: 101 essential things in a sword and sorcery city
I think we didn't mention "whores" enough in this thread, so, I'd add that to the list.
And of course, corrupt "civilised" people and barbarians from the frozen North. And the temples of multiple gods and goddesses with a lot of influence, of course!
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Re: 101 essential things in a sword and sorcery city
If it's a sprawling city, then have old sections of wall where the city outgrew it. One of these has to have the infamous Drum Tower which beats before every execution. Perhaps some of the old towers are unused, but looked over by various guilds that once had the task of defending them when it was an independent city. WHo knows what lives in them now?
Don't forget the rapier studio in the old sailmaker's hall, where the famous Agrippa de Ferrara teaches sword, buckler, wrestling, boxing and knife throwing amid the dim beams of dusty sunlight. Don't let him near your girlfriend though.
Down by the docks is the Revenant, an old three master laid up for repairs long since and now no longer seaworthy. She'd be a good place for adventurers to set up shop in; a stronghold, meeting place and storage depot in one. Lots of rats though.
The Black Spire is the dark basalt windowless temple of the Death Priests, who's Death Templars in their grinning skull helms accompany the newly dead to the burial grounds, and it's said that no cadaver ever interred by the Death Priests has been raised from the dead or bothered by ghouls. They pay a bounty on vampires, and occasionally have tasks for the righteous.
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Re: 101 essential things in a sword and sorcery city
Did anybody mention scantly clad nubile girls screaming for help?
Half of 'em got mugger boyfriends, waiting in the shadows for suckers.
The other half's dear old dads have been kidnapped by sinister forces.
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