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Sub-boards: INTRODUCTIONS, GAMES, ABSENCES, QUESTIONS & SUGGESTIONS

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Sub-boards: FIRST TIME, LINK BACK

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Sub-boards: RIDERS & SIMOURVS, WINGLETS & FLEDGLINGS, CANDIDATES, NON-RIDER FOLK

The caves at the base of the canyon's walls are large, carved out by water when the rock of the canyon was split. They play home to those in the eyrie who are not riders or destined to possibly one day be riders. Craftsmen and workers have rooms and shops within these low caverns. Children are watched in the creche, and a collection of communal bathing rooms, heated from deep beneath the eyrie, serve anyone who needs them.

The kitchens provide food for the entire population of the eyrie, simourvs and animals aside. The kitchen cavern itself is huge, complete with tables, sinks, stoves, and hearths. There really isn't much of a place for formal dining. Most people eat in their rooms, the kitchens, or one of a series of antechambers that serve as small mess halls. The mess rooms lead back to the stores. Chores typically include work in the kitchens and stores.

Simourvs are omnivores and meat is a basic part of their diet. In order to accommodate them, several spacious pens of grazing cows and sheep have been set up for them to feed from. Near to those are the eyrie's kennels, stables, and mews. Many pet animals get skittish around the hulking simourvs, but birds, trained dogs, and warhorses are fairly tolerant of them. Of course, only rainbows and smaller greens can fit in any of the buildings. Candidates help with the animals.

The eyrie has a series of gardens tucked up along its narrowest end. Most of them are just for vegetables, producing things like potatoes and carrots to help feed the eyrie. Canals bring water off the pond at the canyon's northern point to irrigate them. Up on the banks of the pond, there are a few flower gardens with beds of randomly scattered native blossoms. Few people visit the gardens for anything but chores, so they can be peaceful.

Caves dot the canyon's walls, high above the reach of most humans. These are where the riders live. Most of the caverns are actually still empty, unfurnished and unused. Only around sixty or so have been made ready for riders. The personal dwellings of the simourvs and their bondeds are affectionately called eylings. Each eyling is simple, designed with a chamber for the rider and a chamber with a ledge for the simourv. Bathing is done in communal chambers set-up between clusters of caves.

The rim of the canyon leads into a flat plateau and then onto snowy mountains. Two ledges stick out from the canyon's open side. Rocks have been set around their edges, forming low, circular lips. These ledges are the guard heights, where the riders aside of the eyrie's guard squad keep watch. They offer the best view of the surrounding land and the sky. Each ledge has space to easily fit two gray simourvs, though one is marginally smaller.

Tucked against the cliffside, this building is neat and made of wood. The candidates are given simple living arrangements. The large outer door opens into a foyer with a couple of chairs and tables. That leads into two halls. One hall is for boys and boys only. The other hall is for girls and girls only. Each room has a set of bunk beds, two chests, a chair, and a small table. The candidates are expected to handle living with a roommate.

The barrack where the winglets live is huge. It towers over everything else in the canyon's bed. There is no outer door on this building. The long hallway within opens right out to the air. A fully grown gray simourv can just manage to walk inside and squeeze into one of the barrack's hulking rooms. Each room can be rearranged to hold one or two occupants, depending on size. Currently, the Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie winglet classes resides here.

Sayaie was the original settlement on Pohono. It rules over the largest peninsula of the Spiderland and the Aethyls Isles. Most of what surrounds Sayaie is farmlands and plains. While basic agriculture is its main production, it contains people from all major crafts and is the center of education, holding what little technology remains. The main holding of Sayaie is surrounded by a low wall, designed to help defend the town from xymokoxi.

Chydyn is built in the northern forests and controls the eastern most section of Spiderland. Nearly impossibly towering trees surround the village. While the town was originally designed on the ground, it has been built up high into the branches, where safety from the koxi can be found. Platforms on top of the trees serve as stations for watching simourvs. Chydyn is known for its exportation of the giant, meaty nuts that are native to Pohono.

Built across the sound from Sayaie, Itnala rules over the two western peninsulas. It is rather isolated from the other two settlements by land, but it is a fishing village anyway. It actually has two harbors, both of which are filled with ships. A tall tower is built on a small island at the edge of the large harbor. The watchtower is where the simourvs guard. Aside from that, Itnala is rather open and unprotected, made of squat wooden cottages.