Places

Lands of the Coritani

Lindum Colonia

Capital of the Roman civitate Flavia Caesariensis, Lindum boasts a huge Roman fort overlooking the Brayford Pool in the River Witham.  Once a rich and powerful walled city that commanded the land around it, Lindum has seen its pottery business decimated by the lack of trade with the continent and, as a result, many of the city's residents have either moved on or taken to farming resulting in many of the citys Roman buildings being torn down to make room for farmable land within the walls.  Despite the poverty of some areas, the city's central administrative and temple district remains wealthy and well kept.  Currently under the control of The Legate Sextus Tarwin.

Leyma

The group's home village (officially known as Limus Villa).  Situated three days' walk from Lindum along the river Witham, it is a small community that has grown up around some particularly fruitful clay beds that have, until recently, supported a well kept large village with a wooden palisade wall and some huts built around the villa of the headman Quintus Caradoc.  Tended to by a Christian priest, but the village has a long history of giving thanks to its local god known as harvest; a fat bearded man with a toga, a wreath of vines around his head and a shovel in one hand.  His statue is lacking feet so as to display the fact that he works the claybeds.

Pomum Cabile

A recently founded town to the north of Leyma.  Built by the retired legionnary named Malacus, the town has a wooden palissade and buildings made of stone and wood.  Economically reliant upon its lavish orchards and small farms, the town brews and exports its own cider.  The surplus of alcohol makes Pomum Cabile an easy-going place to live, full of happy youthful peasants who are often seen in the summer cavorting in the inns and fields of the nearby countryside.  They worship the pagan god Harvest in the form of a large drunken blue pig.

Divisium Gwent

A fortified town built into the Penines.  A prototype Motte-and-Bailey castle in effect.  It is a well populated town with narrow streets and white-washed houses.  Nominally under the command of the Consul Sextus Tarwin, it has since been granted to Tarwin's chief of staff Tiberius Nwegwe.  The town's economy is dependent upon its mines.  It is well known as a purveyor of silver and bronze.  Its main military strength is its infantry which is equipped to heavy Roman standards and is well trained and disciplined if a trifle green.

Calnum

A fishing village on the river Humber boasting a pontoon allowing large scale fishing without the use of boats.  Has been the subject to Saxon raids and some kind of act of ethnic cleansing or mass murder (the bodies are buried in a pit in the woods).  Also the scene of incursions by some kind of supernatural creature known as a Thin One.  Currently under run by Marcus Elffin.

Palus Transitus

A border village between Coritani and Iceni lands.  Built around two large inns The Red Beard (up-scale and Roman) and The House of Lud (Celtic and low-rent).

Lands of the Brigante

Pontus Erem

In principle a Coritani town, Pontus Erem grew out of the fortified bridge across the river Humber.  However, a recent military build-up by the Brigante has seen its southern bank being fortified and its streets filled with armourers, blacksmiths and whore houses.  The town also has a customs house which levies taxes upon any goods traveling north out of Coritani land.  In effect, it is a staging post for raids into Coritani lands.

Lands of the Iceni

Islus Morennus

A sturdy stone citadel built in the Fens.  Has tall stone walls, excellent visibility and a canal running through the middle of it blocked off by slips.  Clearly built by the Romans for the purposes of pacifying the local population.