1. Locais

Salisbury

Salisbury consists of the ancestral holdings of the former Count of Salisbury, Sir Roderick.

The fief consists primarily of the ancient city of Sarum and the large land area on Salisbury Plain around it. The fief is composed of good farmland and provides other good forms of income such as fisheries and toll bridges. In addition, it is one of the most densely populated areas in Logres which means a proportional increase in harvest income.

The county includes one large city, Sarum, and three small walled cities: Wilton, Warminster and Tilshead. Dozens of smaller towns and villages are not shown on the map but tend to cluster in river valleys within trading distance of the main cities.

The county also has five castles. The one in Sarum is very strong; the other four (Devizes, du Plain, Ebble and Vagon) are common motte and bailey castles.

Sarum is the central market and is the only place at which some types of goods are available for purchase. These include good cloth, clean salt, and anything from outside of the county.

The roads shown on the maps are nearly all hard-packed dirt roads, the best travel routes available. Thus, there is no real road from Tilshead to Warminster, even though they are but 10 miles apart. Rather, rutted tracks and hunters’ trails connect these. The good roads are more heavily traveled, and the only ones used by travelers passing through the territory. The poor roads are less used, mainly by locals traveling within the region.

The Old Tracks traverse high ground. Though they are usually dry, they are difficult for horses, which are reduced to traveling a mere 5 miles per day; hence, mainly peasants on foot use them.

The Royal Road runs through the territory from Levcomagus to Sarum, and then onward towards Dorchester. This used to be a Roman road, and is both wide and paved, though overgrown at the edges and with many tufts of grass cracked through its surface.