Avalon Cultivated

The following map represents the winter (dry) season, when the river is relatively low. In spring, snow melt from the mountains to the north swells the river to encompass the swamps at the mouth of the Great River.

The map above shows larger villages of about 100 people each (blue and black icons) and smaller thorps and plantations of about 50 people each (black icons). The scale is two miles per hex. About half of the colony's population lives in the area shown here. The tan and yellow areas are regularly patrolled; outside these areas, only roads and settlements are regularly patrolled. In the yellow area it is possible to find individual farmsteads, although these are usually stoutly built and may have a palisade.

The tan area marks New Avalon City in its entirety, which includes within its borders three "farming villages" and a garrison. These villages and garrison are not shown in the tightly packed and walled Heart of New Avalon map. The walled quarter shown there is not home to all of the population of New Avalon City. It is, however, home to about 1,500 of that amount. The walled city area is a densly populated place.

In New Avalon City (the tan/gray region) there are:

1. The walled quarter of New Avalon (a).
2. Three farming villages
3. A central garrison to support the farming villages
4. Orchards
5. The Crossroads, where criminals are hung.

Within ten miles of New Avalon City, as noted on the map, there are also:

1. A garrisonned trading post (c), maintained outside of the town to better control contact with the natives.
2. The ruins of the original colony site, called First landing, (b) -- it was more defensible but unsuited for farming.
3. An eastward trail leading to the treasured and infamous South Mountains.

Outside of the region shown on the map:

1. The main road travels on the west side of the river until the canal system begins. The canals were dug on the east side of the river, where the ground was friendlier to such work. The western road peters down to a foot trail a few miles past the beginning of the canal. The ferry located where the road crosses the river is reasonably priced. The southward canals do not go all the way to New Avalon because of spring flooding problems. The northward canals extend to the new garrison at Benden Town.
2. Hugging the river northward of the region shown are 40 to 50 more farming and fishing communities. Approximately 1/4 of these are village-sized; the rest are smaller. About half of the population of the colony lives northward of the border of the map above.