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#1 paulos Apr 21, 2009 10:16:18	I have a dragonborn city built over the ancient Arkhosian capital. Now if many of the elite dragonborn can possibly fly, how would that affect city design. Would some areas be unreachable by non-fliers? If so, which places? Would there be 2nd/3rd/etc. story entrances, or towers and walkways like Eberron's Sharn or fancy StarWars cities? Please help me create a distinctly dragonborn-minded city layout and architecture.
#2 tryco Apr 21, 2009 10:43:36	I always saw Arkhosian cities as something roman. most dragonborns don't have wings, so most of the city would probably "normal". Maybe the palace (or what ever ruling class building) would be one of the few buildings with actual 2nd/3rd story entrances. I would think there would be a lot of balconies. otherwise, it's mainly up to you. What do the high ruling noblemen and women think of flying. do they think it's great (and thus a lot of flying space, entrances etc.) or do they think to low of it, a means of exhausting your self, "that's why we have carriages, otherwise i would use a dragon".
#3 Dreamstryder Apr 22, 2009 22:07:30	If it is built over the capital, I assumes they'd have lots of old and new monuments & reconstructions of old buildings. Maybe they use regutted old buildings & forgot how to build on the scale of the ancients. There might be 2 different styles of architecture or a combination style made of 2. Telling them apart would determine the age of the structure, thus telling you of the interior (the old ones have many secret passages, are connected to subterranean aqueducts, & were mostly below ground, unlike the new ones). For Dragonborn cities in general, if they were a martial empire, the cities may be founded by government authorities on newly conquered land to encourage "colonization" or populating of the area (even to the extend of being in a fairly inhospitable place; look at St. Petersburg!), they might grow alongside fortresses in a strategic region, or be a trading hub at the doors to other countries (even an island within a country, similar to Jerusalem in the Crusades, formed because of economic or religious significance).