(micro-worldbuilding) Let's test this settlement generator

>>51349118
Foothills of a further off mountain range

>>51349118
Rich red clay.

>>51349118

Famous lightning geysers.

>>51349156
>>51349173
Ok then, we're in a rich, red clay land, near a mountain range.

What resources do our settlement produce, that we have in abundance?

>>51349118
Big ol' river

>>51349118
Lush valleys

>>51349213
didn't see this one. We have this too

>>51349215

Medicinal/magical resins.

>>51349215
Pottery, assorted ceramics

Woven products made with Alpaca fur

>>51349215
Ceramics

>>51349226
>>51349227
sorry guys, 3 answers top.

>>51349215
Bricks, ceramics, pottery - baked clay products

>>51349241
>>51349251
>>51349254

I like where this is going.

Next: What commodities does our settlement want, but do not have?

>>51349251
>>51349254
>>51349272
>potterymind

>>51349288
Dyes to use in decorative ceramics.

>>51349288

Precious gemstones

>>51349288
SALT

>>51349314
>>51349324
>>51349361

not bad. I expected a brothel. I can totally see dyes and salt. I'm curious why do we need all those gemstones for. We'll find out.

next (this one is a tricky one): What strange laws and taboos are observed in our potters, healers and alpaca-breeders town?

>>51349213
also, with lightning geysers did you mean that shoot true lightning? or is that a real geyser type? I like both but is your call

>>51349496

The dead are given a new honourific name. It is strictly forbidden to speak their former 'skin name'.

>>51349496
NO FACES OR GENITALS ARE ALLOWED INTO THE ART THEY PRODUCE

>>51349496
Don't have sex with alpacas

>>51349522
>shoot true lightning

This one.

>>51349496
potatoes are banned

>>51349526
Interesting.
>>51349533
I dont know if it is going to come up much, but ok
>>51349535
>>51349535
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL You made me laugh in the middle of the night

>>51349550
YEAHHH METAL only true settlers can ride their alpacas through the geyser marks without getting blasted by the lightnings.

Next one: Who is the most important person here? can be in the present or a past legend, as you wish.

>>51349496
They are forbidden to marry butchers, hunters, warriors and anyone else involved with death.

>>51349708
MOTHER EARTH, THE ONLY TRUE GOD

>>51349730
I'm taking this one too. Too good to be discarded.

>>51349785
>They are forbidden to marry butchers, hunters, warriors and anyone else involved with death.

but they DO NOT shun them, because they are the necessary evil in this world.

>>51349708
An ol' folk hero, maybe not even real.

Dude tricked the land into carrying his stuff and imprisoning spirits that were after him, and that's why pottery works.

>>51349730
>>51349708
Azdalnapori, Ancestor Spirit of all the first bloodlines.

>>51349814
yeah, is just that it wont please mother earth for them to marry, Maybe it has something to do with thinking that the children are gonna be evil or something

>>51349820
>>51349841
maybe they could both be the same.
Also, an addendum to the question: Who is the leader in this city?

>>51349708
For present, the top three guys are city magistrate, chief builder and the blood-hand (the highest person involved with death, currently the captain of the guard)

>>51349953
There's technically a King, chosen from among the heads of a handful of old families, but he's near-ceremonial at this time. No, real power lies with th-
>>51349962
...those guys I guess.

>>51349962
>>51349953
OK yeah!!!!! we got it.

For the last question, just tell me what's the name of our settlement. First post is the official name. Second post is how strangers call this place. Third post is the original, ancient name, which has a secret meaning that only the most daring will fully comprehend.

File: The Fallen Land WIP.pdf (1B, 486x500px)

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>>51350072

pic related is the PDF where I found the inspiration (though I changed it because some questions were redundant).

>>51350072
Claymoor

>>51349925
Mixing life and death just isn't cool, and results in all sorts of problems for the kids and people around them.

And then a few hundred years after that tradition started, it's been subverted in all sorts of ways, just like most "strict" traditions. Stuff like "Someone who already has kids can get involved in death." and if it's really old, "Someone who is involved with death can have kids, but they have to suspend their marriage from the confirmation of pregnancy to just after the birth."
That kind of subversion happens all the time irl.

>>51350072
>Second Name:
Thunderhill

Outsiders are always more enraptured by the local geysers than they are the pottery. To be fair, it's a pretty notable feature.

The locals, on the other hand, have gotten used to it. Hell, they keep time by the more rhythmic ones.

>>51350072
Aai Mayne