Anchorjaw

City Guide to Anchorjaw

This document contains detailed descriptions for each family, man, woman, and child, home ported vessel, building and trade found here. Follow these links if you need the actual City Map w/grid or City History?.

This is a work in progress

This is only a partially developed snapshot of the town of Anchorjaw and this is a work in progress.

A few noteworthy locals (good, bad, weird, or just plain ugly) in this little town:

• Alenius, Frayne
• Anckarstrom, Rupert
• Burstrom, Berwick – Captain of the fishing skipp ‘Lady Duck’
• Eklof, Toby
• Garde, Everhard – Captain of the fishing skipp ‘Dew Spike’
• Holmlund, Goldwin
• Jaerbyn, Samson
• Kameus, Cutler – Captain of the ‘Flukes Breeze’
• Klinge, Carvel
• Linnaeus, Bay – Captain of the ‘Salty Jarr’
• Molander, Braemwiella
• Nyman, Trip – Captain of the merchant skipp ‘Windy Tripp’
• Rolf, Orlan
• Sonderlei, Stanweth
• Sundell, Oswald
• Tangen, Burgess
• Tidlund, Weehorde

Editors are invited to add some ‘color’ and character to any of these as you feel inspired. Note that Anchorjaw names were generated from www.Namator.com using English/Welsh forenames and Norwegian/Swedish surnames.

With a population of 198 and 74 buildings Anchorjaw is slightly smaller than Frostport. The trades, industries and guilds are almost identical. However Anchorjaw is a little bit warmer and it is closer to some larger port cities. A small merchant vessel could make a day-trip to Tulroc of Elephawn to trade and return late the next day. Anchorjaw has five home ported ships and all are Skipp class vessels.

1. The ‘Lady Duck’ has a deck length of 45′ with a 15′ beam, 5′ draft and a tonnage of 45 tons. Crew compliment is normally 9 men and a cargo capacity of 15 tons.
2. The ‘Dew Spike’ has a deck length of 40′ with a 12′ beam, 4′ draft and a tonnage of 40 tons. Crew compliment is normally 9 men and a cargo capacity of 13 tons.
3. The ‘Flukes Breeze’ has a deck length of 42′ with a 13′ beam, 5′ draft and a tonnage of 43 tons. Crew compliment is normally 9 men and a cargo capacity of 14 tons.
4. The ‘Salty Jarr’ has a deck length of 42′ with a 13′ beam, 5′ draft and a tonnage of 43 tons. Crew compliment is normally 9 men and a cargo capacity of 14 tons.
5. The ‘Windy Trip’ has a deck length of 40′ with a 12′ beam, 4′ draft and a tonnage of 40 tons. Crew compliment is normally 9 men and a cargo capacity of 13 tons.

The Building List should answer the following questions.

1. What trades are present?
2. In what buildings?
3. Who are the people that work and/or live in that building?
4. Where is the building and how large is it?
5. Does it have one, two or three stories?

Descriptions are formatted as follows:

• Building@Grid, Width x Depth in Meters (Width x Depth in Feet) – Building tile or name Who lives here and some details about each person.

Example:

• 1@Z18, 8m x 4m (26.25′ x 13.12′) – Quarry Workshop shared by master mason Malmury (m/56) and Journeyman Alever (m/51); Several apprentices work here with the master mason; Kew (m/35) son of Malmury, Myrddin (m/16) son of Agnaar (14@S19), Gurthin (m/15) son of Grinde (76@J20), Foyse (f/15) daughter of Pedder (73@H18) and Kone (m/13) son of Iker (20@O18). The children of Alever apprentice here also; Nenne (m/32), Aleydis (f/31) and Talek (m/29).

. . . after the building list . . .

Other City Details

1. Is tribute/protection money owed? Do ‘they’ owe ‘us’ or is it the other way around? For the protection that Bansu offers, Anchorjaw pays a small stipend thrice per year and maintains volunteers (three percent of the population) in the Bansuan army.
2. How much of the population is devoted to making food & other consumables? About 75% (60% is average) of the local population. There are a half dozen farms located north of town and a few large gardens within the town borders.
3. How many ‘locals’ are there vs. passers by? There are about 39 buildings here and about 98 locals, men, women and children. Add about 10% to 20% of the population as passers by. That would mean 10 to 20 people are passing through at any given time.
4. What is the level of criminal activity? There are very few crimes committed by the locals. Perhaps one or so per year. Travelers and visitors are not so inactive. It seems that most locals have no desire to have dinner with the fishes.
5. What fortifications are in place? Roughly built, low, stone walls, a few feet thick, there are no watch towers.