Bansu Castle

City Guide to Bansu Castle

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 Bansu Castle and this is a work in progress.

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

  • Leumas Bansu
  • Sittaro Bansu

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

Bansu Castle (proper) has a population of nnn inhabiting nnn buildings.

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?
Building dimensions for the length and width are estimated from the maps’ 10 square meter grid. A conversion of that estimated dimension to feet is also given where 1 meter = 3.2808399 feet.

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 Description:

  • 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?
  2. How much of the population is devoted to making food & other consumables? About 15% (60% is average) of Bansu Castle proper and 55% of the local population on the ground. There are dozens of farms located around the castle and a few large gardens on the castle ground.
  3. How many ‘locals’ are there vs. passers by? There are about nnn buildings here and about nnn locals, men, women and children. Add about 20% to 30% of the population as passers by. That would mean nnn to nnn 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?