And so they arrive at Cowcorn.

This is a city proper, much larger than Relis.  It has concentric circles of walls where the city outgrew itself again, and again, and again.  Permanent structures are already sprouting like weeds and spreading like ivy around the latest boundary of spell-raised stony bulwarks.  Buildings look gleaming-sparkling-shining clean, not just non-dirty.  If Bella wasn't from Earth, she might be impressed.  There's even a murmuring city noise in the background, not as loud as an Earth city of course, but clearly audible from some distance off.  From the center of the city rise academic towers white as polished bone, thin narrow buildings like needles rising towards heaven, deliberately taller than the city walls were allowed to be.  (Don't worry, the stairs are enchanted with pseudo-lower-gravity and won't be too awful to climb.)

Haroun's student medallion commands more respect than Bella's guildplate, here, but both command sufficient respect to let their carriage pass after a brief search and a few raised eyebrows for all the bloodstains.

There's a huge Adventurer's Guild building close by the city gates, bustling enough that there's people and horses and conveyances constantly arriving.  It's a busy time of day with many Adventurers returning from missions, and Haroun and Bella will have to wait a minute or three before somebody arrives to valet their carriage.  Bella gets her first look at an enchanted hover-carriage, gleaming in platinum decorations and with brilliantly blue-glowing repulsors on its underside; the conveyance of a Duke's offspring at least, if not higher.

And so they arrive at Cowcorn.

This is a city proper, much larger than Relis.  It has concentric circles of walls where the city outgrew itself again, and again, and again.  Permanent structures are already sprouting like weeds and spreading like ivy around the latest boundary of spell-raised stony bulwarks.  Buildings look gleaming-sparkling-shining clean, not just non-dirty.  If Bella wasn't from Earth, she might be impressed.  There's even a murmuring city noise in the background, not as loud as an Earth city of course, but clearly audible from some distance off.  From the center of the city rise academic towers white as polished bone, thin narrow buildings like needles rising towards heaven, deliberately taller than the city walls were allowed to be.  (Don't worry, the stairs are enchanted with pseudo-lower-gravity and won't be too awful to climb.)

Haroun's student medallion commands more respect than Bella's guildplate, here, but both command sufficient respect to let their carriage pass after a brief search and a few raised eyebrows for all the bloodstains in back.

There's a huge Adventurer's Guild building close by the city gates, bustling enough that there's people and horses and conveyances constantly arriving.  It's a busy time of day with many Adventurers returning from missions, and Haroun and Bella will have to wait a minute or three before somebody arrives to valet their carriage.  Bella gets her first look at an enchanted hover-carriage, gleaming in platinum decorations and with brilliantly blue-glowing repulsors on its underside; the conveyance of a Duke's offspring at least, if not higher.

And so they arrive at Cowcorn.

This is a city proper, much larger than Relis.  It has concentric circles of walls where the city outgrew itself again, and again, and again.  Permanent structures are already sprouting like weeds and spreading like ivy around the latest boundary of spell-raised stony bulwarks.  Buildings look gleaming-sparkling-shining clean, not just non-dirty.  If Bella wasn't from Earth, she might be impressed.  There's even a murmuring city noise in the background, not as loud as an Earth city of course, but clearly audible from some distance off.  From the center of the city rise academic towers white as polished bone, thin curved buildings like tusks rising towards heaven, deliberately taller than the city walls were allowed to be.  (Don't worry, the stairs are enchanted with pseudo-lower-gravity and won't be too awful to climb.)

Haroun's student medallion commands more respect than Bella's guildplate, here, but both command sufficient respect to let their carriage pass after a brief search and a few raised eyebrows for all the bloodstains in back.

There's a huge Adventurer's Guild building close by the city gates, bustling enough that there's people and horses and conveyances constantly arriving.  It's a busy time of day with many Adventurers returning from missions, and Haroun and Bella will have to wait a minute or three before somebody arrives to valet their carriage.  Bella gets her first look at an enchanted hover-carriage, gleaming in platinum decorations and with brilliantly blue-glowing repulsors on its underside; the conveyance of a Duke's offspring at least, if not higher.