Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 16, 2007 0:48:15 GMT -5
Describing the port town of Alayn is an exercise in contradiction. Indeed, even the term "port" is inaccurate. Alayn is nestled inbetween an important peninsula somewhat to the southeast of the world. It is in fact in a swampy area, where the mangroves meet the tall ologa tree. The cuisine is (though the inhabitants do not refer to it in these terms, of course) a cross between Cajun, Southern and Southeast Asian cooking, with cilantro-like herbs, peanuts, and so on.
What is so contradictory about Alayn? It is a "port" that is in fact a canal, which bisects the town in a manner that to this day irritates the townsfolk, as at certain times of day they have to take their horses or Chocobos a little further, grumble grumble... On both sides are bays where fishers fish, except of course when the big ships come through, either with sails or the new "engines", and their wakes make it both dangerous and pointless to fish. It also controls a connection between two continents and many river areas. The people of Alayn are mostly quiet people, who despite the preponderance of commerce and traffic going through their town are quite immune to the political changes of the outside world.
So it is that more injured soldiers, more ships of war, and more transfer of instruments of violence has gone unnoticed by the Alaynians...
This is the introduction. We will all work out the unique backgrounds of the characters in each thread, and will determine if they are native Alaynians, arriving by land, river, sea or even air.
What is so contradictory about Alayn? It is a "port" that is in fact a canal, which bisects the town in a manner that to this day irritates the townsfolk, as at certain times of day they have to take their horses or Chocobos a little further, grumble grumble... On both sides are bays where fishers fish, except of course when the big ships come through, either with sails or the new "engines", and their wakes make it both dangerous and pointless to fish. It also controls a connection between two continents and many river areas. The people of Alayn are mostly quiet people, who despite the preponderance of commerce and traffic going through their town are quite immune to the political changes of the outside world.
So it is that more injured soldiers, more ships of war, and more transfer of instruments of violence has gone unnoticed by the Alaynians...
This is the introduction. We will all work out the unique backgrounds of the characters in each thread, and will determine if they are native Alaynians, arriving by land, river, sea or even air.