Post by Alexias on Mar 1, 2009 18:01:24 GMT -5
Mid-Southern continent, lush and overflowing with life of all kinds. Mountains and valleys, short canyons ending in circular crevices, forested land all around. Large rivers, lakes and oceans. This is the land where Dragon Canyon Weyr was built. Right along the canyon walls, into a wide river ending in a lake upon reaching the Weyr bowl. Durable stone walls, fresh water, protected Weyrs carved into the canyon walls itself. This is Dragon Canyon. The Weyr was built to completion a mere turn ago, before the plague and before it ever got a chance to be inhabited. Now, those who live there have simply come upon it, and wish to stay and make a life for themselves.
There are no entrances around the back of the Weyr. The only entrance is by air or by walking along the trail beside the wide river until one reaches the Weyr bowl, which can be done from either side of it, two trails to allow easy access-if one is allowed to pass. The two paths are easily guarded if desired, and if there were whers on watch no one could really get through.
The Weyr bowl is where the river ends, pooling out blue-green lake of clear, fresh water. Fish live in the lake and river, providing an extra bounty for the Weyrfolk at all times of the turn. Lush grass and trees grow everywhere. There are seven visible ground entrances and many dragon Weyrs which can only be reached by dragonflight dotting the walls. There is a large orchard in the bowl and stables have been built but lie unoccupied at the current time. The craftsmanship is all stone, however. While no one could predict Thread, this was more than a little fortunate. Light colored and soft sand surrounds the lake, thicker sand alongside the riverbank. The lake itself can hold two small wings of dragons and their riders, and large, flat rocks lie around it in certain places for idealistic sunning spots.
The entrance of the short canyon has large, stone pens built outside and another set of stables. Obviously, these pens weren't meant for runners, but dragon feeding pens. They are also as of yet empty, but it looks like they can hold quite a lot of animals to them, there is a cave that they lead into, likely for storing the animals at night, to protect them from wild felines, canines or other predatory creatures.
There are two entrances at the left side of the Weyr bowl, two on the right, and three at the back. One can assume this Weyr was modeled after the older, larger ones, as those who built them often built them to resemble them. Part of this reason is to keep dragons there, another for nostalgia. So, you wander up to the first entrance, a normal sized door through which you enter quietly, stepping through to face a short corridor. The corridor has two doors to the left, two to the right. There are metal plates on the doors, and on the left it says 'girls', the right 'boys'. You enter the girl's side, to find a room which has about twenty or so beds with a single dresser beside each. Atop the dressers are mirrors, and you see that there are four drawers in each dresser. You exit and check out the boy's side, which appears identical. Then the back doors. Much to your delight, this new Weyr has plumbing and hot and cold water! These are the bathing rooms, with a few sinks and mirrors above them, and tubs of water which are sectioned off, about ten. You assume the other side is the male's bathing room, and note that there are privies further on into the female's ones. Thank Faranth for plumbing-cleaning out privies which had none would be a disgusting job, to say the least.
You exit out of the entrance that leads to the bowl, and while shutting the door behind you, you notice that there's a sign on it, a metal plate again. It reads 'Candidate's Barracks'. You smile, thinking 'how authentic', before moving onto the second door to the left, further on down. You look up above to see entrances starting here, the Weyrs dotting the walls.
The door here is so big, that they're double doors with a latch that you have to use both hands to lift! You go inside to find that there is a longer corridor in here, with doors all along it. You walk along and count twenty on one side, twenty on the other. Fourty doors? There are two doors at the very end of the corridor, and you check that first-more bathing rooms, just like in the candidate barracks! Then, you go back, and open a door to a room, walking in and looking around. This room sports a bigger bed, a night table set beside it. There is once again a dresser with a mirror, and now there's a desk, too! You note that beside the bed is a large sort of smoothed out, bowl-shaped area. Is that what you think it is? It looks just like a couch for a dragon to sleep on! You had noticed that the entrance here was bigger-this had to be the Weyrling Barracks! Each room is the same, with the same furniture, and you jog back up to the doors and, sure enough, they are labeled as you suspected. You walk out, eager to see what the next entrance holds.
The first entrance you noticed when they come in by way of the river and lake is the entrance to the Lower Caverns. These caverns are always meant to be bustling with life, as most folk who are not dragonriders make their home there. If you follow the cavern you will arrive at the kitchens first and foremost. You will enter to see many large, rectangular worktables. There are people around them, busily preparing food while the Head Cook orders them around and keeps everything running smoothly to prepare for dinner.
Along the walls of the room there is long, wide working tables. Pots, pans, herbs, spoons, forks and knives as well as all other cooking utensils line the shelves and racks upon the walls here. Hearths are upon the wall beside it, the strong smell of cooking food making ones mouth water in anticipation. You can smell everything from stews and soups to klah and pastries-everything that is made is prepared here.
There is a passageway that goes upwards to the next level, where you find another small room branching off. It has a smaller hearth of its own, and is the ‘Night Hearth’. Here, any can always find leftovers, as well as fresh Klah.
There are two massive rooms along the pathways up to the dining halls. If you enter these you will find Dragon Canyon’s storerooms. Here one can find stored food, cloths, furs, sweetsand, or anything else imaginable that might be needed by people or riders. Pots of oil for the dragons is also stored here. The one room branching off one of the smaller rooms. It goes deeper into the earth than the rest of the Weyr, and a staircase has been cut into the earth that leads down to it. Here one can find the foods that spoil quickly if not kept cooler. Here one can find meat and cheeses, as well as milk and fruits and veggies which are not dried. Scraps for the firelizards are kept in a few large pots here as well.
The Dining Hall is larger than most, even the ones in the larger Weyrs. There is a large door to the right of it that leads out into the bowl, the huge doors that are overhung by the canyon's stone to protect their fine wood from Thread. They are so large, that even the largest of dragons can enter through them, having been built just for this reason. Along the sides, there are seats for dragons, and there are many long, lovely tables in the middle. It can seat all the dragons in the Weyr thus far, though as they grow, only some will fit-those who choose to enter the hall during a feast, for instance.
The table on the Northern end is the ‘High Table’. Here, the Weyrleaders as well as their esteemed guests were to sit and eat. It is not a large table, though it still seats many. The table closest to this was meant to be the ‘Ranker’s Table’. Here, any Wingleader, Weyrlingmaster, Candidate Master or person with an outstanding rank like Masterharper or Masterhealer may sit. The Headwoman and those in charge sit here, as well. It is larger than the Ranking Table, and next in line is the ‘Dragonrider’s Tables’. These tables are tables which had to be put together, since there are many more dragonriders than those of rank or Weyrleaders. There are many seats, which need to be filled as time goes on an the Weyr expands to include more riders.
The tables after this one are the Weyrling Tables, where the Weyrlings all sit with their fellow Weyrlings after impression. The tables after this are the Candidate Tables. There are not as many of these as there are for riders or even Weyrlings, but this is where Candidates sit. The rest of the hall is filled to maximum capacity with many more tables, for all the Weyrfolk and the guests of the Weyr to sit at. These are by far the most numerous, and they are near the Southern wall, by the entrance and exit doors.
There are two smaller exits that branch out from the left and right sides of the Dining Hall. The one to the left leads you into a corridor with two rooms on the left of you. One is smaller-the first-than the other. In here is where the dishes are washed and stored after washing. Drudges are responsible for this task. The other, larger room is for dirty laundry. People have ‘laundry baskets’ which drudges come to collect, putting them in sacks with the person’s name and living quarters on them so that they return it to the correct person. The corridor keeps on going, and there are rooms, varying in sizes, which the drudges and kitchenworkers live in. The smallest are fit for one drudge. They contain only a bed, a dresser, and a small desk. There are medium sized rooms for couples, and then the largest rooms go to families. There are two fair sized bathing rooms at the back end of the corridor-one for males, one for females. The people who use them must heat their own water, however, in the hearth provided specifically to sit several large pots for heating it, as the pipes leading to the hot springs currently only lead up to the Weyrs, as the rest are being built and installed.
The other corridor leads a little further upwards, working its way up until it reaches the crafter rooms and workrooms. Here, people that are Journeymen and Masters reside. They are bigger than drudges rooms, and can fit more belongings. A crafter’s room is a fair size, the size of a medium couple’s room. Even bigger rooms than the ones kitchen workers and drudges get are for the crafter’s families-about the size of a medium and large room. The working rooms are first and foremost, each large and spacious. There is one for weavers, woodsmiths, harpers, tanners and all other crafts that are needed in a Weyr. They are where the materials are sent to be worked with, and where the crafts themselves are practiced. There are two medium sized bathing rooms at the back, one for the males and one for the females. The Masters, however, also have their own tubs if they wish it. The hot water is provided by drudges, in both separate and group bathing. Privies are located in a main room which has several that can be used in privacy.
You try to go up more, to the next highest level of the Weyr, to discover that this is inaccessible. You have to go by outside Weyr entrances to get to where the greenriders, blueriders and brownriders have their Weyrs. Their Weyrs are all large and comfortable, with plenty of space for dragon and human both. Every rider is allowed their own tub, and at Dark Moon there is actual ‘plumbing’ for these upper levels. The Weyrs themselves dot the entirety of over half of the upper actual bowl, along the canyon's sturdy walls. More can be made if needed, but it is doubtful they ever will be. The riders rooms all have a large couch for their dragons, a spacious bed, a bath-which is directly connected to the hot springs underneath for hot water!-a large dresser and desk, a full-sized mirror and anything else a rider wishes, from tables to a couch of sorts for themselves. They have a small ‘storage closet’ as well, built into the wall. The Privy is located in small room with the bath, also with full plumbing.
On the uppermost level, there is the rooms for the Queens and bronzes. The room of the senior queen is by far the largest, with more space than is really even needed for anyone. It has everything a person and dragon could want, and it is afforded all comforts. The queen’s rooms also have plumbing, and the hot water from hot springs below connects to a smaller room of her own where her bath is. There is also a private privy in her room, plumbing for this is available all through the Weyr. All in all, the Weyrwomen of Dragon Canyon live in comfort and like royalty. The bronze rooms are second largest only to the queen’s weyr. They too have private baths, though the plumbing for hot water is ‘in the works’ and drudges still have to do that part of things. Still, they are large and larger than needed. The bronzeriders have everything they could want.
When you go outside of the Weyr again, you notice that on the large entrance on the far right comes out of the dining caverns. Also, there is a separate corridor that doesn’t seem to have any Weyrs above it, with large double doors like the ones that dragons can enter the dining hall from. You head to the large doors, and end up walking a short ways only to find yourself on hot sands! Yes, this is the hatching grounds! The sand is very warm, and you see the Queen’s mound against the back wall, with stands on the right and the left in a semicircle around the walls. There is a large entrance that would fit any newly hatched dragonet that leads inside to the Weyr itself, a corridor which ends up joining the one to the Dining Hall. The sands are in a huge room indeed, with seats up above especially for dragons. It is a sight to see indeed, and you would only hope you’d get to be in those sands come hatching day!
You go back out to see what the two entrances on the right side of the Weyr bowl wall are, and enter the first one closest to you. It’s a curious one, because it looks large enough for a big runner to get through. You wander inside, noting that the glows here are kept low. There are a few rooms dotting the walls, and a bathing cavern in the back-what do they keep here? You hear something snoring-but it doesn’t sound human. So, you curiously peek into a room, sticking your head around a corner. You are more than a little surprised to see a dragon-like couch! It's way smaller but definitely a couch.This must be the few rooms that hold the wher-handlers and their whers! You've heard of this type of thing, and most Weyrs have this now. You see a bed, a dresser with a mirror and a desk-this is almost like a Weyr, only a lot smaller. You note that there is are two bigger rooms near the back, and curiously you peek in. These look like the candidate barracks! But is it really rooms for wher candidates? There are about ten beds in each big room-a lot less than in the Candidate’s Barracks. There are male and female bathing rooms off to the left and right of the main corridor, and you curiously exit, shaking your head in wonder. The bathing rooms have one for males, one for females, and there seems to be plumbing for hot water and the privies here, too.
Dragon Canyon Weyr may not be all that big, but the feel of it is one of the nicest of Weyrs you have ever been to. You sigh happily, readjusting your pack as you stand in the middle of the Bowl looking up at the pathway leading to the Weyr Rim and the Watchheights on the left, and the Star Stones and drums to the right, on the up most outcroppings of the top of the canyon. You can’t think of a single thing lacking here, and you realize that you’re going to really like your new life at Dragon Canyon Weyr.
There are no entrances around the back of the Weyr. The only entrance is by air or by walking along the trail beside the wide river until one reaches the Weyr bowl, which can be done from either side of it, two trails to allow easy access-if one is allowed to pass. The two paths are easily guarded if desired, and if there were whers on watch no one could really get through.
The Weyr bowl is where the river ends, pooling out blue-green lake of clear, fresh water. Fish live in the lake and river, providing an extra bounty for the Weyrfolk at all times of the turn. Lush grass and trees grow everywhere. There are seven visible ground entrances and many dragon Weyrs which can only be reached by dragonflight dotting the walls. There is a large orchard in the bowl and stables have been built but lie unoccupied at the current time. The craftsmanship is all stone, however. While no one could predict Thread, this was more than a little fortunate. Light colored and soft sand surrounds the lake, thicker sand alongside the riverbank. The lake itself can hold two small wings of dragons and their riders, and large, flat rocks lie around it in certain places for idealistic sunning spots.
The entrance of the short canyon has large, stone pens built outside and another set of stables. Obviously, these pens weren't meant for runners, but dragon feeding pens. They are also as of yet empty, but it looks like they can hold quite a lot of animals to them, there is a cave that they lead into, likely for storing the animals at night, to protect them from wild felines, canines or other predatory creatures.
There are two entrances at the left side of the Weyr bowl, two on the right, and three at the back. One can assume this Weyr was modeled after the older, larger ones, as those who built them often built them to resemble them. Part of this reason is to keep dragons there, another for nostalgia. So, you wander up to the first entrance, a normal sized door through which you enter quietly, stepping through to face a short corridor. The corridor has two doors to the left, two to the right. There are metal plates on the doors, and on the left it says 'girls', the right 'boys'. You enter the girl's side, to find a room which has about twenty or so beds with a single dresser beside each. Atop the dressers are mirrors, and you see that there are four drawers in each dresser. You exit and check out the boy's side, which appears identical. Then the back doors. Much to your delight, this new Weyr has plumbing and hot and cold water! These are the bathing rooms, with a few sinks and mirrors above them, and tubs of water which are sectioned off, about ten. You assume the other side is the male's bathing room, and note that there are privies further on into the female's ones. Thank Faranth for plumbing-cleaning out privies which had none would be a disgusting job, to say the least.
You exit out of the entrance that leads to the bowl, and while shutting the door behind you, you notice that there's a sign on it, a metal plate again. It reads 'Candidate's Barracks'. You smile, thinking 'how authentic', before moving onto the second door to the left, further on down. You look up above to see entrances starting here, the Weyrs dotting the walls.
The door here is so big, that they're double doors with a latch that you have to use both hands to lift! You go inside to find that there is a longer corridor in here, with doors all along it. You walk along and count twenty on one side, twenty on the other. Fourty doors? There are two doors at the very end of the corridor, and you check that first-more bathing rooms, just like in the candidate barracks! Then, you go back, and open a door to a room, walking in and looking around. This room sports a bigger bed, a night table set beside it. There is once again a dresser with a mirror, and now there's a desk, too! You note that beside the bed is a large sort of smoothed out, bowl-shaped area. Is that what you think it is? It looks just like a couch for a dragon to sleep on! You had noticed that the entrance here was bigger-this had to be the Weyrling Barracks! Each room is the same, with the same furniture, and you jog back up to the doors and, sure enough, they are labeled as you suspected. You walk out, eager to see what the next entrance holds.
The first entrance you noticed when they come in by way of the river and lake is the entrance to the Lower Caverns. These caverns are always meant to be bustling with life, as most folk who are not dragonriders make their home there. If you follow the cavern you will arrive at the kitchens first and foremost. You will enter to see many large, rectangular worktables. There are people around them, busily preparing food while the Head Cook orders them around and keeps everything running smoothly to prepare for dinner.
Along the walls of the room there is long, wide working tables. Pots, pans, herbs, spoons, forks and knives as well as all other cooking utensils line the shelves and racks upon the walls here. Hearths are upon the wall beside it, the strong smell of cooking food making ones mouth water in anticipation. You can smell everything from stews and soups to klah and pastries-everything that is made is prepared here.
There is a passageway that goes upwards to the next level, where you find another small room branching off. It has a smaller hearth of its own, and is the ‘Night Hearth’. Here, any can always find leftovers, as well as fresh Klah.
There are two massive rooms along the pathways up to the dining halls. If you enter these you will find Dragon Canyon’s storerooms. Here one can find stored food, cloths, furs, sweetsand, or anything else imaginable that might be needed by people or riders. Pots of oil for the dragons is also stored here. The one room branching off one of the smaller rooms. It goes deeper into the earth than the rest of the Weyr, and a staircase has been cut into the earth that leads down to it. Here one can find the foods that spoil quickly if not kept cooler. Here one can find meat and cheeses, as well as milk and fruits and veggies which are not dried. Scraps for the firelizards are kept in a few large pots here as well.
The Dining Hall is larger than most, even the ones in the larger Weyrs. There is a large door to the right of it that leads out into the bowl, the huge doors that are overhung by the canyon's stone to protect their fine wood from Thread. They are so large, that even the largest of dragons can enter through them, having been built just for this reason. Along the sides, there are seats for dragons, and there are many long, lovely tables in the middle. It can seat all the dragons in the Weyr thus far, though as they grow, only some will fit-those who choose to enter the hall during a feast, for instance.
The table on the Northern end is the ‘High Table’. Here, the Weyrleaders as well as their esteemed guests were to sit and eat. It is not a large table, though it still seats many. The table closest to this was meant to be the ‘Ranker’s Table’. Here, any Wingleader, Weyrlingmaster, Candidate Master or person with an outstanding rank like Masterharper or Masterhealer may sit. The Headwoman and those in charge sit here, as well. It is larger than the Ranking Table, and next in line is the ‘Dragonrider’s Tables’. These tables are tables which had to be put together, since there are many more dragonriders than those of rank or Weyrleaders. There are many seats, which need to be filled as time goes on an the Weyr expands to include more riders.
The tables after this one are the Weyrling Tables, where the Weyrlings all sit with their fellow Weyrlings after impression. The tables after this are the Candidate Tables. There are not as many of these as there are for riders or even Weyrlings, but this is where Candidates sit. The rest of the hall is filled to maximum capacity with many more tables, for all the Weyrfolk and the guests of the Weyr to sit at. These are by far the most numerous, and they are near the Southern wall, by the entrance and exit doors.
There are two smaller exits that branch out from the left and right sides of the Dining Hall. The one to the left leads you into a corridor with two rooms on the left of you. One is smaller-the first-than the other. In here is where the dishes are washed and stored after washing. Drudges are responsible for this task. The other, larger room is for dirty laundry. People have ‘laundry baskets’ which drudges come to collect, putting them in sacks with the person’s name and living quarters on them so that they return it to the correct person. The corridor keeps on going, and there are rooms, varying in sizes, which the drudges and kitchenworkers live in. The smallest are fit for one drudge. They contain only a bed, a dresser, and a small desk. There are medium sized rooms for couples, and then the largest rooms go to families. There are two fair sized bathing rooms at the back end of the corridor-one for males, one for females. The people who use them must heat their own water, however, in the hearth provided specifically to sit several large pots for heating it, as the pipes leading to the hot springs currently only lead up to the Weyrs, as the rest are being built and installed.
The other corridor leads a little further upwards, working its way up until it reaches the crafter rooms and workrooms. Here, people that are Journeymen and Masters reside. They are bigger than drudges rooms, and can fit more belongings. A crafter’s room is a fair size, the size of a medium couple’s room. Even bigger rooms than the ones kitchen workers and drudges get are for the crafter’s families-about the size of a medium and large room. The working rooms are first and foremost, each large and spacious. There is one for weavers, woodsmiths, harpers, tanners and all other crafts that are needed in a Weyr. They are where the materials are sent to be worked with, and where the crafts themselves are practiced. There are two medium sized bathing rooms at the back, one for the males and one for the females. The Masters, however, also have their own tubs if they wish it. The hot water is provided by drudges, in both separate and group bathing. Privies are located in a main room which has several that can be used in privacy.
You try to go up more, to the next highest level of the Weyr, to discover that this is inaccessible. You have to go by outside Weyr entrances to get to where the greenriders, blueriders and brownriders have their Weyrs. Their Weyrs are all large and comfortable, with plenty of space for dragon and human both. Every rider is allowed their own tub, and at Dark Moon there is actual ‘plumbing’ for these upper levels. The Weyrs themselves dot the entirety of over half of the upper actual bowl, along the canyon's sturdy walls. More can be made if needed, but it is doubtful they ever will be. The riders rooms all have a large couch for their dragons, a spacious bed, a bath-which is directly connected to the hot springs underneath for hot water!-a large dresser and desk, a full-sized mirror and anything else a rider wishes, from tables to a couch of sorts for themselves. They have a small ‘storage closet’ as well, built into the wall. The Privy is located in small room with the bath, also with full plumbing.
On the uppermost level, there is the rooms for the Queens and bronzes. The room of the senior queen is by far the largest, with more space than is really even needed for anyone. It has everything a person and dragon could want, and it is afforded all comforts. The queen’s rooms also have plumbing, and the hot water from hot springs below connects to a smaller room of her own where her bath is. There is also a private privy in her room, plumbing for this is available all through the Weyr. All in all, the Weyrwomen of Dragon Canyon live in comfort and like royalty. The bronze rooms are second largest only to the queen’s weyr. They too have private baths, though the plumbing for hot water is ‘in the works’ and drudges still have to do that part of things. Still, they are large and larger than needed. The bronzeriders have everything they could want.
When you go outside of the Weyr again, you notice that on the large entrance on the far right comes out of the dining caverns. Also, there is a separate corridor that doesn’t seem to have any Weyrs above it, with large double doors like the ones that dragons can enter the dining hall from. You head to the large doors, and end up walking a short ways only to find yourself on hot sands! Yes, this is the hatching grounds! The sand is very warm, and you see the Queen’s mound against the back wall, with stands on the right and the left in a semicircle around the walls. There is a large entrance that would fit any newly hatched dragonet that leads inside to the Weyr itself, a corridor which ends up joining the one to the Dining Hall. The sands are in a huge room indeed, with seats up above especially for dragons. It is a sight to see indeed, and you would only hope you’d get to be in those sands come hatching day!
You go back out to see what the two entrances on the right side of the Weyr bowl wall are, and enter the first one closest to you. It’s a curious one, because it looks large enough for a big runner to get through. You wander inside, noting that the glows here are kept low. There are a few rooms dotting the walls, and a bathing cavern in the back-what do they keep here? You hear something snoring-but it doesn’t sound human. So, you curiously peek into a room, sticking your head around a corner. You are more than a little surprised to see a dragon-like couch! It's way smaller but definitely a couch.This must be the few rooms that hold the wher-handlers and their whers! You've heard of this type of thing, and most Weyrs have this now. You see a bed, a dresser with a mirror and a desk-this is almost like a Weyr, only a lot smaller. You note that there is are two bigger rooms near the back, and curiously you peek in. These look like the candidate barracks! But is it really rooms for wher candidates? There are about ten beds in each big room-a lot less than in the Candidate’s Barracks. There are male and female bathing rooms off to the left and right of the main corridor, and you curiously exit, shaking your head in wonder. The bathing rooms have one for males, one for females, and there seems to be plumbing for hot water and the privies here, too.
Dragon Canyon Weyr may not be all that big, but the feel of it is one of the nicest of Weyrs you have ever been to. You sigh happily, readjusting your pack as you stand in the middle of the Bowl looking up at the pathway leading to the Weyr Rim and the Watchheights on the left, and the Star Stones and drums to the right, on the up most outcroppings of the top of the canyon. You can’t think of a single thing lacking here, and you realize that you’re going to really like your new life at Dragon Canyon Weyr.