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Aristodes — Adrastos City
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Published: 2017-03-28 23:14:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 951; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 6
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Finally, a map which approaches the quality level I want. There's a lot to say about this dracon city, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment. I can add more notes later, but this small dracon city is bordered by the coastline, farmland, and is situated on roads leading to far larger urban areas. A major city like Minbenthac or Hekaga would be many times larger than Adrastos, at least. Possibly ten times bigger. Also, some of the buildings are not to scale.Related content
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Thanks! Yes, this took a while.
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You're welcome, man. ^^
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Hello:
very nice that you were able to complete this map, you sure added ton more of stuff. I like how it is all surrounded by walls and that you've added those colours for grass (around the rivers) and buildings of different shapes.
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Thanks! I would have added more, but time constraints got in the way. And I would have cleaned things up a bit more, too.
That "grass" is farmland, by the way. The city can't eat without it.
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Hello:
You are welcome. Yeh, I know what you mean.
Ohh, ok, but still nice green colour you've added as it clearly shows their extension.
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Thanks! That was a last-minute addition. I considered using hand-drawn lines for the farms, but this was much quicker. Just select an area and fill it in.
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You are welcome. I think it was a good choice as it also seems to add a separate texture feel to those areas, very much like old maps.
Also, there are always an Arena in every city 
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Dracons don't consider it a city worthy to be called a city if it doesn't have one.
This one can only hold about 10,000 spectators. The Colosseum could hold at least 4.5-5 times more.
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Cool, and I figured
I bet Colosseums would only be found in the largest cities? with maybe smaller areanas too? because of such large populations they could hold.
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Well, it isn't really called "a Colosseum." That's just the nickname of the Flavian Amphitheater in Rome. The generic name for such a structure is "Amphitheater", which literally means "two theaters", in reference to the semicircular shape of one theater in ancient times, and how putting two such theaters together would make a circle. I just call them arenas here.
But to get to your good point, yes, arenas the size of the Colosseum (or larger!) would only be found in the larger cities; the top eight plus a few others.
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Good info about the Amphiteathers, as Ihave never made any research yet, hehehe.
I thought so, it is hard to imagine how things are in those places, with the people and the events happening there, hehehe.
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Like this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de…
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Wow, imagine yourself drawing a version of that with tons of Dracon people around 
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I have something already, with no one in it. Still in progress.
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Ohh, seen from inside. I just hope it wasn't quite a mess to draw all those lines
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It was. The seating is the weak part of the picture.
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I am glad I haven't tried to draw anything like that yet
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I might give more information about it. The closest equivalent to them in real life happen to be bullrings. Some are very clearly modeled after Amphitheaters.
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That's fine, unless it serves the purpose of your pic, if not then that's no problem.
But I can actually picture the idea, I mean of the people watching and something not-nice that could happen in the arena itself. I guess events are similar to what could be found happened in roman Amphiteathers? like fightings, races and stuff?
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Fighting, yes. Races, no. Races would be reserved for racetracks (horses and chariots), but this city doesn't have one. Not enough of a population to support it.
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I bet many people would like to be able to see those races whenever they can visit bigger cities, quite an event.
Maybe same with fightings as bigger colosseums will allow for much larger tournaments, or how-ever they organize things.
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Well, both of those are true, although Adrastos does not rule a large enough area or population to support or attract enough visitors for a larger arena.
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Well, most likely they just have an arena as big as it suits their need an no more because it is not needed, same with other structures I pressume, like the temples and the academy shown in the map.
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That's right. The academy trains people who help run the city or else want to go into intellectual professions. It's not a mage school. And the temples are few in number, but they meet the needs of the city.
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If those structures already present are enough, then there is no need to build more or to expand them, so those resources are better used in something else. So I agree about how that city was planned.
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And no need to know how are events in Hekaga's Colosseums... XD .
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Even by dracon standards, those are awfully violent.
... but Adykon used to especially like them when he visited. He regrets it now.
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Ouchie, I imagined they would be very bad.
I guess he was much younger when he used to visit there, good thing nothing happened to him during those visits.
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Nothing really... although he did conceive his oldest son there. Remember Vaeri and Kos?
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Yeah, I remember those, but meeting them cannot be considered a bad thing that happened to him
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Well, he didn't exactly meet them all at once. Adykon, Vaeri, and Kos were never in the same room together at the same time, unless you count him still in an egg in her womb.
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Well, nope. But at least something good came rom Hekaga (Kos)... but it was still very bad how Vaeri died.
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I guess I could make one for his head or something. Maybe in time.
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Not a priority, besides, who knows id DA can handle so much evil XD .
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Yeah. Maybe if Chuck Norris maintained the servers, they could hold it.
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We can always dream............ 
XD .
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