The Road
Mar 30, 2014 2:07:50 GMT
Post by Dol-Terias on Mar 30, 2014 2:07:50 GMT
The river Don is by far the major way of communication in the whole region of Dol-Terias. It connects the west (the Five Towns, the Far Hills) with Dol-Terias and then it stretches for hundreds of miles eastward, south of the Than Steppes, until it reaches the Baltus Sea. Fishing boats, keelboats and barges of every type sail up and downriver securing the city’s needs all around the year. Pointless to say that despite river pirate attacks are not unheard of traveling via river is by far safer than crossing the land on foot. Ferry boats connect Dol-Terias with the Five Towns in the west.
However land travel is the way that folk living away from the major rivers get around. Road travel near Dol-Terias is relatively safe; away from urban centres, travelers may fall victim to highwaymen, bandits, wotan barbarians and even the dreaded mutants of Nergull as well as dark feys and orcish warbands. Those that can afford it usually travel via coach. The large coaches of the Green Merchantile Company links every province of Dol and Terias as well as the Five Towns. A coach is usually pulled by two to four horses and can accomodate up to six people plus two coach drivers. For those that walk inland and cannot find an hamlet or a village where to rest in a valuable solution is presented by the coach station, a fortifed way inn that is always a welcoming sight. Any traveler that can pay prefers to sleep with a roof over his head and inside a walled establishment rather than light a fire in the wild, risking to attract the attention of highwaymen and barbarians. On occasions travelers and pilgrims can find shelter in the shrines of Lohon the Hunter (often nothing more than a shack) that are sparsely built on the most isolated roads and passes.
However land travel is the way that folk living away from the major rivers get around. Road travel near Dol-Terias is relatively safe; away from urban centres, travelers may fall victim to highwaymen, bandits, wotan barbarians and even the dreaded mutants of Nergull as well as dark feys and orcish warbands. Those that can afford it usually travel via coach. The large coaches of the Green Merchantile Company links every province of Dol and Terias as well as the Five Towns. A coach is usually pulled by two to four horses and can accomodate up to six people plus two coach drivers. For those that walk inland and cannot find an hamlet or a village where to rest in a valuable solution is presented by the coach station, a fortifed way inn that is always a welcoming sight. Any traveler that can pay prefers to sleep with a roof over his head and inside a walled establishment rather than light a fire in the wild, risking to attract the attention of highwaymen and barbarians. On occasions travelers and pilgrims can find shelter in the shrines of Lohon the Hunter (often nothing more than a shack) that are sparsely built on the most isolated roads and passes.