Creature:Tragnon/Buildings and Mining

Village Architecture
Tragnon are well known for their small mountain villages. They are very often located near minor mines, or near big farms. Being mostly in mountain valleys on slope, they are well protected against anyone, who will want to attack.Tragnon villages are very often walled by wooden palisades, to prevent attacks and defend village, and to prevent animals to escape too. Tragnon villages consist mostly of small houses, consisting only from wood, sometimes bronze is used too, for some parts of house. Tragnon houses have usually ground and underground part. Ground part can be seen, there is house main entrance and windows. It is used as „living room“. There is also large fireplace, where Tragnon family conversate in the long winter evenings. Underground part is dug into stone, and there is always sleeping room. There is also one corridor, what leads from house deeper, deeper and deeper to the undeground. There it connects to another corridors, so you can invite your neighbours without getting to the ground(doors to your corridor can be locked, of course, to prevent unwanted invitations). Basic Tragnon house don´t have something like kitchen, and living room is sometimes used as dining room, but Tragnons usually eat outside, near Daveorium, where is the food cooked. Stoves in Daveorium are built from clay bricks, what are rare, because clay can be found only in lowlands. So, often Tragnons simply dig stove into a rock, or build it using rocks and something very similar to concrete. Tragnons call it Avalbaldre(„Liquid rock“).

City Architecture
It is very well known, that Tragnons are very skilled at stonework. So, when digging a mines, they noticed that it will be very practical to build houses and cities just in the mining halls. Also, they noticed that they can dig tunnels and use them as corridors. After that, they built first wooden houses there. But, because the population was groving and technologies were more and more advanced, Tragnons started to build extensions of these tunnel houses dug into the rocks. So, they built huge builgings from stone and bricks, connected and united with the rock and tunnels. There were built windows, and, after time, all sides of mining halls were transformed to a stone buildings, partially dug into rock, and partially artificially constructed using „liquid rock“, bricks, and stone. These majestatic structures are used as residential buildings, or warehouses, while most of markets are outside, in the huge halls. Light in these halls is gained using complex system of mirrors, what will enlight these halls with the light outside. But, when is cloudy weather, solar rays will not be too strong to greatly enlight these mining halls. So, the special long burning materials are lit, and the bright fire from them, if many, will greatly enlight mining halls just like they would be on the ground. Largest cities like Entopea or Ignont were built this way.

Mining
Tragnons build also magnificent structures for the mining purposes. In every minor Tragnon village can be found special tower structure, made from wood, and reinforced using metals. This is used for the elevator. Tragnons use very often mining elevators, and whole Northern mountains are full of Tragnon mining tunnels and corridors. Every small mine is connected to the massive mining system, with the center in the Grand mines of Entopea. Elevator ropes are usually very strong, made from strong plant tissues. These towers have upper part of the elevator construction, along with steam engine(or water-propelled, sometimes using animals). The rope is attached to the engine, and to the upper part of the tower. Elevator cabin is usually attached to four ropes, sometimes it is more. Elevator tunnels can be up to 800 m long, but in some huge mining tunnels are more often used hot air balloons. Most of mining corridors are dug in solid Granite, so they don´t need to be supported, but exceptions can be found, like massive mining halls, what are supported by huge pillars. Mined rock is transported to the elevators using animals(or Tragnons themselves will carry it). After that, rock is transported to the higher mining floors, to the sorting hall. There Tragnons sort rock, at first, what is ore of rare metals and if there are some gems, next the ores of another metals are sorted, and finally the unprocessable remains are often used for buildings, or simply thrown back to the deeps. Ores are after that smelted and metals are sorted, in special huge smelting furnaces. The molten metals go after that to separate tanks, and made into ingots, what are further processed, or simply traded with another nations.