JohanKR850
Royal Messenger
Western gift
By Johan
By Johan
The gift is very large and underdeveloped. So far the only projects which has built in the gift is Shadow tower Hoarfrost hill, Queenscrown and Moles town. And i would like to complete the western most quarter of the gift.
I earlier posted a long thread about this so will just repost it here
Well i kinda had a plan to do some more gift lands at some point. And an overall plan on how we could approach it all.
The gift is divided (in the terraforming part) in to two areas, on each side of the kings road. The first one and most progressed is the western side, I did some of it in my Hoarfrost hill project, and you (Endy) and Maj did some in the shadow tower project. It borders the Norrey lands which is currently being done Aeks. This western part ends at the Bay of ice, and is increasingly forested and mountainous. Eastern side has received 0% love
and is described as a land consisting of large rolling plains that reaches the Shivering sea.
Then there is the new gift and old gift. The old gift is 100% abandoned, while the new gift is still populated. But we can assume its not fully populated, I suggest its a third part abandoned buildings/hamlets. This is all canon you can find here https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gift and in a search of ice and fire.
I think we should approach it in four phases.
West side:
The gift marked with blue ill take care of. I know the area and has already done a lot of work there. It borders the green line. The green line is the canon forest, og the west side. It will be a "tie up project" a term i just invented, for doing the small patches of land between already finished lands.
Mid west:
This area is dominated by forest and hills. It should be done as part of the Nightfort project server build.
East mid:
Rolling hills and such, good farmland too i assume. This should be done as part of Rimegate and Longbarrow.
East coast:
Part of the Eastwatch project. Rolling hills again.
So this also includes i wont be doing any major terraforming at queensgate. But i will repay my snowy terra debt through the mid west part. This way we will soon be able to cross off a very large patch of northern snow lands as fully completed and connected Instead of having many done patches of divided lands.
Let me know what you guys think of the plan.
The gift is divided (in the terraforming part) in to two areas, on each side of the kings road. The first one and most progressed is the western side, I did some of it in my Hoarfrost hill project, and you (Endy) and Maj did some in the shadow tower project. It borders the Norrey lands which is currently being done Aeks. This western part ends at the Bay of ice, and is increasingly forested and mountainous. Eastern side has received 0% love
and is described as a land consisting of large rolling plains that reaches the Shivering sea.Then there is the new gift and old gift. The old gift is 100% abandoned, while the new gift is still populated. But we can assume its not fully populated, I suggest its a third part abandoned buildings/hamlets. This is all canon you can find here https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gift and in a search of ice and fire.
I think we should approach it in four phases.
West side:
The gift marked with blue ill take care of. I know the area and has already done a lot of work there. It borders the green line. The green line is the canon forest, og the west side. It will be a "tie up project" a term i just invented, for doing the small patches of land between already finished lands.
Mid west:
This area is dominated by forest and hills. It should be done as part of the Nightfort project server build.
East mid:
Rolling hills and such, good farmland too i assume. This should be done as part of Rimegate and Longbarrow.
East coast:
Part of the Eastwatch project. Rolling hills again.
So this also includes i wont be doing any major terraforming at queensgate. But i will repay my snowy terra debt through the mid west part. This way we will soon be able to cross off a very large patch of northern snow lands as fully completed and connected
Instead of having many done patches of divided lands.Let me know what you guys think of the plan.
So here i am again, with some updated maps but roughly the same plan and purpose.
The goal is to fill up the "empty spaces" in between the developed gift lands of the west. All the builds will be ruined with the exception of one hamlet to the south.
I will open up plots and speciel builds (+ a mini if anyone should want to make the inhabited hamlet). That way new builders have another style they can build, and even try working with snow.
The house style will be that of Hoarfrost hill. To make it melt in with the mountain clan lands there will also be one or two beehive keeps. We can assume that the people who life in the Northern mountains are all of the same culture, be they gift dwellers or Norrey clansmen.
Now it's time for the maps!
The first one here is of the lands i mean to take on. The green indicates lands i will take care of.
This one shows the locations (not totally precise
) of the ruins. [Edit: Just added road network]
Legend:
- The leftmost dot along the coast: A small ruined settlement just two to three houses.
- The uppermost dot along the coast: Ruined hamlet of five to seven houses including a ruined beehive.
- Star: A first men stone cricle.
- The lower dot: An inhabited hamlet three to six houses serving the Shadow Tower. Living of shepherding, lifestock, gathering, hunting and growing stuff in yards. Open for application as mini. Can maybe include small beehive keep.
- Dot up to the right: An abandoned quarry. Back in the day it supplied stone for the nearby castles of the watch. Four to eight houses.
Also i thought that maybe the inhabited hamlet could be a studdery? Breeding horses in high altitude could prove useful when you also use the horses for ranging in the Frostfangs and such.
The terrain will across the board be open stretches of plains, with small clusterings of woods.
This next map is why im doing this.
Once this immersion built is done, all of these lands will be completed, in a somewhat unisome style. The Mountain clans of Wull, Knott and Norrey will be connected with lands of the nights watch castles of West watch by the bridge, Shadow tower, Sentinelstand, Greyguard, Stonedoor and Hoarfrost Hill. And if that can't provide satisfaction for a man i don't know what can.
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