Aghaboy

A sketch of Aghaboy's layout and architecture by tumblr user @thewatchau

Location of Aghaboy in Duilintinn by tumblr user @thewatchau

Aghaboy is the capital city of House Brody and one of Duilintinn's six major urban cities.

## Name Origin

Aghaboy means "yellow field" in the old Feadhainn Language.

## History

Aghaboy began its life as a simple trade center during the Waldren Occupation, occupied only by warehouses and regulatory officials.

After Waldren’s decline, the city evolved into a populated city, while also continuing to be a central hub for the agricultural industry of Cuartalan Wetlands and northern Monaidh Plains. Since most of the buildings were trade warehouses or management offices, significant architectural changes took place during the Interim Years as people began to transform these buildings into homes, shops, and government facilities.

As a result, Aghaboy’s history has muddled itself into a single, unremarkable architectural style that is neither the perfectly preserved Occupation Era architecture of Fionport, nor notably derivative of Feadhainn or Mountain architectural styles.

If I had to describe the architecture of Aghaboy in a single sentence, it’d be something like: “Fionport, but with boxier buildings covered with wood and stone expansions instead of ornate architecture.”

## Layout

Aghaboy looks like it started out on a grid system, but as the city grew, so did the weirdness of the layout. Unlike some of the other capital cities, Aghaboy doesn’t have any specific “districts;” shops and homes are all over the place.

This chaos doesn’t stop with the city walls, either; Aghaboy has a LOT of urban sprawl to the south, east, and west. There’s also some to the north, but the Pa'Gille River and Northern Mountains push most urbanization south.

Aghaboy’s walls were built by the Order of Stone under commission of King Sean in the early days of Duilintinn. While the construction of the wall itself was fairly uneventful, the process of planning the wall’s layout was extremely complicated. With significant urban sprawl, the exact borders of the city were very hard to define, and while some communities living in the outer parts of Aghaboy would be offended if they were not included in the walled portion of the city, others completely loathed the idea. This created a logistical nightmare for the Order of Stone, resulting in the strange, angular shape of the walls that surround the city to this day.

In the center of the city, four large buildings in the Occupation Era architectural style are used as the seat of both House Brody’s regional government and Aghaboy’s municipal government. These buildings likely were used for similar managerial purposes during the Waldren Occupation. Like all regional capitals, Aghaboy’s government center also holds embassies for the other four Noble Houses.

The guild hub of the Ocean Men is near the banks of the Pa’Gille River. It’s a very old, circular, stone building that likely predates the Waldren Occupation. Those who visit compare it more to a shrine than a normal guild hub, but since most active members live closer to the secondary hub in the Cuartalan wetlands, there is less need for a huge central operation in Aghaboy.

The Farmers’ Guild hub is divided into four groups of buildings: one at the east gate, one at the west gate, and two at the south gate. Three of these are specifically to serve the farmers in each of House Brody’s three agricultural regions with practical matters, while the extra one at the south gate for universal guild management purposes and boring political stuff.

Finally, the Order of Stone built their own guild hub when they were commissioned to build walls for the rapidly growing city back in the early days of Duilintinn. They took the opportunity to build themselves a tidy little complex in the northwest corner of the city, complete with a tower with a gorgeous view of the northern mountains. Despite (or perhaps because of) the difficulty in planning the wall around Aghaboy, the guild considers both the construction of the wall and the guild hub as one of their greatest architectural accomplishments.