[Region 1][Map 14][Location 01] Mennin's Hallow

[Midgardsormr]

Although the population is low and the town is isolated, I find it odd that there are no outbuildings from the town.
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No ceremonial groves, dolmens or menhirs, or watch structures?

Good idea. An old megalith site would be a nice touch, and the place needs a graveyard. I had originally intended to put at least one cottage in the forest, but I must have erased that entry on my notes layer. Or maybe it's lurking somewhere off the edge of the canvas. Thanks for the reminder.

It also strikes me as odd that such an isolated place would not have a rudimentary military structure or two to defend against the occasional maruading wild animal or humanoid band.

That's a conscious choice. Wild animals will normally avoid a settlement, particularly if there is plenty of wilderness around it. The Tawaren Basin at large is very sparsely populated thanks to the plague, so the risk of bandits is very low, almost nonexistant. Furthermore, this village is only barely surviving; the villagers aren't willing to give the labor to construct a palisade, preferring to do things that more directly improve their own circumstances.

Where is the road out of town? It may be too small to see on the larger map, but I cannot make out any way to get Mennin's Hallow other than by water. It may be isolated, but a thorp with 280 people would have blazed a rude path or two leading out of it if not an actual road.

Water isn't a good way to get in or out, either. That stream's only 25 feet wide, shallow, and it runs rapidly downhill in places. It might be possible to run a canoe on it, but nothing bigger. There isn't any regular traffic to or from the Hallow, although you're right--there should probably be at least some foraging trails, and quite likely a path up to a quarry to the west. That could double as a goat trail, too.

I would center the blow up view on the village itself since the village is the focus of the blow up in the first place.

I am inclined to think the same thing. But I'm lazy, so I didn't do it. Now that you've given me some ideas for other ways to fill the space, though, it may not be necessary. Or at least I won't have to move it very far.

So here's my to-do list, just so I can see it easily and don't overlook the obvious again:

- Megaliths
- Cemetery
- Cottage in the forest
- Trails out of town
- Labels?
- Recenter inset
- Recheck brightness/contrast
- Doublecheck scales
- Resize farmhouses

Thanks for the comments, and for all the praise. I'll try to have another draft up tomorrow morning with at least a few of these improvements.