A large city built on the highland cliffs. The Blushing River flows down and splits many times into canals that flow through the city before reconnecting and flowing over an 800 ft waterfall under the castle. These canals separate the different neighborhoods and create many islands.

Garden City

Large stone castle, stone manor houses, brick structures, and wood and thatch homes.

Rivergarden Castle

Highland road from the west to the north passage up the cliffs leads to the North Gate.

just outside the entrance to the castle is a busy marketplace. Along the main canals.

East Fork, the far eastern edge of the city where the Blushing river splits off into two main canals; Rose is the south and Lark is the north canal. South Blushing, south side of Rose canal. Larkhead, north side of the Lark canal. Lords Island in the center of the two. Maiden Heights is west of Larkhead up to the Castle. Raven's Gate is south of Rose canal from South Blushing to the Castle. Niverby Bazaar is several islands in between Maiden Heights and Raven's Gate. The western and eastern most points of the city, where the canals are just 24" across and deep are commonly referred to as The Rills. The poorest people live in the eastern Rills or western Rills.

Your basic don't steal, murder, rape, pillage. Women have equality under the law.

Canoe races in the canals. Archery, horse mastership, stick ball with the kids.

Queen Ashling is very egalitarian.

The village of River's Edge was founded so long ago no one really knows how long it's been there. King Bradach I moved the capital from Drake's Landing to Rivergarden several hundred years after King Uttara. Bradach I, II, and III built up the city and castle.

before the Great War

The canals provide water to the whole city, so growing crops is easy. On the outskirts of the city are large goat and sheep farms. Most families have their own chickens, and a cow or two. Cattle farming is not popular. Big farms provide food in the marketplace for those who have no gardens.

Water wheels

There is no such thing as plastic or "man-made". Everything is ceramic, glass, bone, stone, or metal and easily reused. Old broken pottery goes to the brickmakers, glass back to the glassblowers, metal to the smiths, and bone is buried in the compost at home.

Human waste is carried in underground pipes with a separate water system than the crops and drinking water. It flows to charcoal-filled pits on each side of the city, which filters the waste, and then it eventually exits over the cliffs.