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Map of Amber
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Cities of Amber
The Great City of Amber
Capitol of the Kingdom of Amber, Approx. Population 675,000
The Center of the Universe
. Approx. Population: 300,000
A suburb of Amber built after Patternfall, North Riding is the home of the numerous foreign embassies and political establishments that have come to Amber. There are numerous unofficial embassies as well from kingdoms as far away as The Black Zone.
In many ways North Riding has benefited from a more organized approach to civic planning, using late period earth techniques. Streets are straight, curbed, clear street names, plumbing, public parks, athletic fields, sewers, street-lighting, ample parking for horses, carriages, and many of the new forms of transportation. Commercial areas and residential
Approx. Population 300,000 (The Amber Office of Civic Planning predicts that current civic improvements and planned elements could support a stable population level of 1 million people. Community long-range plans allow for the possible rise in population to 3 million, expanding up the vale of Ganarth.)
This city was once merely a collection of seaside villages until a hair in Random's ass convinced him that in the future the population of Amber was going to explode. They needed a place removed from the kingdom center to develop cottage industry and expand warehousing for the import/export trade that is the center of Amber's business life. If the headquarters of a shadow-spanning import/export company is in amber, its warehouses are probably in Garn.
The tip of the continent of Amber had casual water ways extending up the valley for 30 miles, creating 30 separate thing fingers of land, each finger over a mile wide. For millennia these areas provided a home to Amber's fishing industry and easy navel and merchant shipping. The creation of Garn as a city has been a massive project for Amber including the clearing of land, creation of warfs and docking areas, warehouses, numerous drawbridges, forts and military bases.
Approx. Population 300,000
The Northernmost major city of Amber, Ober was just recently granted city status. For 3000 years this region was a heavily forested area next to the sea. Called Ober, short for Oberon's Retreat, it was comprised of manor houses, mansions, tiny villages, summer homes, and retirement settlements. The heavy forest providing ample divisions so that a clump of retirement homes near a hamlet, less then 200 yards from each other, might have little or now contact. Tiny self-sufficient area housed a multitude of people.
After Patternfall Random built three wide thoroughfares that connected the isolated sections and created, quite suddenly, a powerful city. Nearly every noble family in Amber and Rebma have summer homes here, as do royalty from most the golden Circle kingdoms. The vast number little centers allows for a nearly rural sense of local community while the large lanes allow travel and commerce give the residents of the whole area a sense of city pride.
Ober is also home to large Elven and fairy communities; as well as numerous creatures of less than standard physiology. The isolated nature appeals to them.
Approx. Population 100,000
North Vale is a region that includes everything north and east of the River Valens. It is a cold region extending up into the Great Shoals. Spotted with tiny hamlets with ample grazing land, North Vale include the City of Ober, as well as the great monument called the Gates of Dawn.
This is a region of shallow water, ranging from 100 to 5 feet, beaching on the north edge of the continent. Shifting sand bars, temporary islands and unstable ocean currents cause this area to be treacherous to cross. It extends a 1000 miles up to the polar ice caps.
Green Vale Holding
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Jones' Falls
Approx. Population 2,000
Jones Falls is a massive waterfall where the River Amber flows out of Arden. This is at the top of the Jones Vale and the thing lightly forested region called Oberon's Finger.
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Caine's Folly Approx. Population 40,000
This is the sea coast between Amber and Garn. It is littered with tiny fishing villages and is a ramshackle and rough area. Bad elements seem well ensconced here despite the efforts of the constabulary of Amber.
Hewlet
Approx. Population 1000 civilian. 15,000 military
The Tower of Hewlet is one of the key military fortresses in Amber and the site of many battles during Patternfall. This tower oversees the river and highway trade in Amber. The bridge alows the highways of Ganarth to cross into the Vale of Kolvir and on to the City of Amber. The river Amber
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Bayle's Port
Approx. Population 15,000
A smallish sea port north of Amber, Bayle's Port is important because it is half-way between Amber and Ober. Also it is a major sea port for the nobility in that most of the inland roads leading to the plantations and estates of the nobility have connections here. Most keep stables of horses as well and boats or ships in the harbor. The population of this city mainly tends the stables or harbor facilities.
Officially Bayle's Port is in the demesne of House Bayles as is a great deal of the area around it.
Vale of Ganarth
Approx. Population 200,000
The vale of Ganarth is the highway of Amber. For centuries the three shadow trails that enter amber would filter out of the defensive barrier of Ardan to the top of Ganarth to trail to the Tower of Hewlet to cross the great Amber River int the Vale of Kolvir and into the city of Amber. Now tht city of Garn is the destination of most commerce in Amber.
The Vale of Ganarth is the site of the Black Road, and much of the hostilities of the patternfall War in Amber. Monuments, statues, and cemetaries are common sites in this once rich vale. Long range civic planning suggests that Garn may expand up the valley past Hewlet in the next century or two.
Cities of Rebma
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