Thursday, 8 August 2013

Design - Ankh Morpork (research, adjectives)

Compiling a list of adjectives and small notes for reference for the character and mood of the City of Ankh Morpork as well as the character of the City Watch.

Sources: Previous notes, the book 'The New Discworld Companion' (approached with caution due to being released long after Jingo) and a flick through Jingo for some period-accurate information.

Ankh Morpork Adjectives

  • Dirty
  • Smelly
  • Shallow wells
  • Mercantile city
  • Service city
  • Working city - factories, workshops
  • Markets - cattle, veg, slaughter, spice
  • Cabbage fields
  • Some disrepair
  • Some affluence
  • Hidden dictatorship
  • Thriving
  • Increasingly Diverse in Species and Races
  • Increasingly industrial
  • Increasing Restoration of State Services
  • Advancing with Technology
  • A glorious past (no more)
  • Skilled at being bystanders
  • Welcomes anyone with money
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Trading Hub
  • Thieves
  • Violent streets 
  • Regulated crime (Guilds, Watch)
  • Squats on the Sto Plains
  • Continually revised due to fires
  • Rats, fleas, roaches
  • Wood, thatch, stone
  • Physically sloped
  • Shades less controlled by Guilds and Watch
City Watch Adjectives
  • Quickly increasing size
  • Increasing importance
  • Increasing no. of duties
  • Increasing multiculturalism
  • Increasingly efficient police force
  • Few specialists, mostly generalists
  • Mismatched equipment
  • Battered equipment
Pseudopolis Yard Adjectives
  • Old upmarket city house
  • Fronts large open space
  • Blue light over archway
  • No carpets
  • stairs visible from door
  • possibly largeish open room




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