[WIP] The Candle & Kettle Inn in the village of Mapleford
I'm working on a little village called Mapleford (so named to give me an excuse to sprinkle in a few of the Japanese Maple trees from the Asian Town annual). Before I tackle the rest of the village, I wanted to focus on the Candle & Kettle Inn, which provides welcome accommodations for traveling adventurers and doubles as the village's only tavern for locals.
Here's the exterior of the inn and its stables (and outhouse). Lots of chimneys, but I covered a few with dormers. Fortunately, lots of fireplaces means lots of excuses to use Shessar's lovely fireplace symbols.
And here it is in the winter:
Just for fun, here's a Winter Solstice celebration with the fir tree decorated with lights (probably luminescent crystals, though it could be candles specially treated to glow with different colors).
Although I've mentally plotted out the interior layout, I want to work on the rest of the village before getting to interiors.
Comments
Yes, those dormers come in very handy for hiding unwanted chimneys; done this myself before for a tropical settlement map in the Atlas!
I thought about putting a flagpole on one chimney but the only top-down flagpole symbols I know of are in the Dundjinni Archives and the difference in style can be jarring.
Plus of course on the snowy roofs, you'd really want to have the snow melted/cleared a bit round the chimney pots on the roofs sometimes too, and that'd be much trickier to manage!