This is a fairly typical town, one of hundreds scattered across the countryside usually about eight kilometers apart. It is built around a crossroads and has a temple for the faithful to pray and get married, a government center where local governmental functions are handled, a barracks where a few troops are raised for the larger army and patrols are organized and an inn where the locals can get a drink, travelers can sleep and women of negotiable affection work their trade. There are numerous shops, usually built in the back yards of people where goods are made, from cloth to soap to saddles to shoes to farm tools. Every week there is a market in the square where local farmers and artisans form around town and the surrounding villages and traveling merchants sell their wares and goods. It sends accumulates the products of the surrounding land to be sent off to feed cities.