Hi everyone,
in a campaign of mine, players are right now entering the volcano Mount Belnos to meet up with a dubious group - seemed like a good place for such a gathering. Seeing the Belynar map, there is a palace on the east side of the volcano crater, and a bridge which seems to be further up, connecting two buildings of unclear use.
I'd be interested in your ideas what these buildings are. This is not about canon, but more about interesting ideas about the city. I tend to think the palace is a dwarven palace from when the dwarves helped build Belynar, but OTOH, their main base was Blackflame, and they probably had royal roads to take them home in the evenings... no use for a temple at the construction site.
The other likely candidates are, of course, Cyrads and Narsin, the latter being a bit more probable because they are said to have extended the underground city and worked with strange lights.
Apart from who built it, what kind of a palace would be built where it's dark most of the time? There wouldn't be a nice garden, and few would like to stroll around in a place like that (apart from dwarves). Why build a palace (as in: very beautiful house) were few can enjoy it?
The bridge has built by the Cyrads and modified by the Narsin, but what was its use? Is it a shortcut to reach the northern part of the city? Would anybody really walk all the way up the mountain instead of around? Even it it were shorter, it would be a hard walk. Or is there something in the buildings connected, and while you can reach one just like that, you need the bridge to reach the other? If that is the case, what kind of a place would that have to be, given that it's obviously meant to be hard to reach...?
Anybody interested to join in these musings?