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I love how the crypts are absolutely massive and maze-like and that they can end up anywhere. Very nice touch and very unique, it feels appropriate. From the sprawling and catacomb-ish structure I take it that the ossuary idea is being considered? As for suggested rooms for the interiors, I...

I’m not, I’m quoting his text.

Thanks for the quick answer! Happy to help with anything else. I do agree that there is danger in headcanon, but there is a significant difference between headcanon by rule of cool and speculative knowledge based on actual canon. After all, I only mention these terms extrapolating from GRRM’s...

I am very happy and very excited to see that the Duskendale build has started, and rather wonderfully so. It's a shame I'm two months late into the party, but, hey, that's what my former thread was for. I've checked out the Duskendale build and the linked project (thank you for referring to my...

By the way, I made this map last year and forgot to post it. It could serve as further inspiration to you guys: Canon locations: Duskendale Three Crowns (Hollard Hall) Old Stone Bridge Shady Glen (canon name, made up location through correlation: Darklyn hunting retreat/country holdfast)...

Nah, it’s fine. It’s good to debate. Honestly, Duskendale was such a big trade hub that I would be extremely surprised if there was no exchange other than commercial with the Valyrians. Fernand Braudel showed us that there were such wider cultural and political exchanges all across the...

I actually agree. I wrote about it in the Project Suggestion too iirc. In my defense, the Great Hall fundamentally follows the Red Keep style, and basalt was liberally used on next door Driftmark. As for the grey and granite parts of the rest of the castle, I based it not only on its age, but...

Please, I urge you to have a look at my canon research in the main document linked in the OP. I address all of this with canon quotes. It is a misconception that the Darklyns were petty kings. Petty kings do not rule a kingdom as large as they did, which extended from Crackclaw Point to...

Wow, thanks for all the comments, guys. I appreciate it. This past couple of weeks I have completely revised the Dusk Court design from my previous Project Suggestion. I was unhappy with it in the first place, so I took some time to plan out a new building. I was heavily inspired by the Red...

Yes, I said in between the gates and the major roads, not next to them, i.e. there is settled area near to the gates and the major streets, but not so much in the outskirts of the city next to the wall where there are no gates or major streets. The city center would still be densely populated...

@EStoop exactly. My suggestion, which is in the main docs I linked, was to have empty fields/farms within the city walls, as well as abandoned buildings. The clearest historical parallel is post-1204 Constantinople. Brienne doesn’t note this decay, so it’s likely in the space between the city...

In the books the Crownlands look to be low populated because Joffrey/Tyriom barely recruits any Crownlander lords to defend King’s Landing. Lack of manpower is an explanation, but it is not an ideal one IMO. After all, if I remember right, most of Rhaegar’s host of 45,000 men on the Trident...

Perhaps, the Great Hall could take many forms, yes, though it’s a misconception that Duskendale is poor or low populated. This is the direct quote from AWOIAF: “At that time Duskendale was the principal Westerosi port on the narrow sea and had grown fat and wealthy from the trade that passed...

The Winterfell bit is in AWOIAF. It is also canon that Duskendale was the largest and most prosperous Westerosi port city on the Narrow Sea before the establishment of King’s Landing, surpassing the usual suspects like Gulltown and White Harbor, and that the city was the capital of a kingdom...

Eh, thanks for the reply, but consider that the Dun Fort grew as Duskendale grew with it. It wasn't born that way. There is the really old part of the castle next to the square keep and then there is the new part built up by the Darklyns when they were the Hightowers of the Narrow Sea. It...

Some more castle inspiration for the Dun Fort (as a reminder, the Dun Fort used to be the royal seat of a large state encompassing the entire Northern Crownlands for centuries, while Duskendale itself was the largest and most important Westerosi port on the Narrow Sea until the foundation of...

This is great! As a suggestion, I’d advise you to take advantage of the fact you’re already compiling this information and adding it to the Westeroscraft Wiki. That way it will be way more organized and accessible. I do believe anyone can edit the Wiki.

Thanks :oops:

I have come across an artwork which pretty much nails how I imagine the Dun Fort looking in the Duskendale skyline (please ignore the thatch roofs and the dirt streets): It looks very imposing and martial-like. The defining features are the big drum towers and the large square keep, and it...

Potential inspiration for the entrance to the crypts in the godswood: