Ridge Building Chain – Austin Bunton Designs

Atop the low line of mountains that separates our civilian desert from the beach around our main lake, you can find these parallel rows of European-style townhouse-like structures.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Dimensions & Layout
Population Over Time
Special Features
Novels Excerpt
History
Location & Overall (Images Begin)
Exteriors
Interiors
ICV Serving
Inspiration from WoW

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Introduction:

This construct is exactly what it sounds like; a building that follows the ridge-line of this mountain range. Looking like a chain-link of medieval European architecture, some of the buildings ranging in size from that of a three-story house to that of a high-rise apartment or office, it follows the top of this Inisfreean land-form exactly.

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Dimensions & Layout:

Spanning three quarters of a mile about its long axis, and just under 600 feet across at any given point, the foundation of this long building (or chain of buildings, rather) measures 2,352,240 square feet. In two rows along this length are the buildings, with two streets running the same length, all parallel. One street is in the middle of these two rows of buildings, while the other street is between one row’s building faces and the ledge that drops down the steep slope into the Civilian Desert region.

Fun and exciting access-devices include bucket-seats on vertical tracks which rapidly raise and lower riders between the sandy foot-hills base and the street-level where the first buildings on this ridge-line are.

There are 2,500 5-story suites/apartments/townhomes here.

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Population Over Time:

2,500 5-story townhomes means room to comfortably house 5 human-sized guests/residents on each of those levels; ~62,500 people will be here “at capacity” (millennia ahead). That doesn’t include people who could also fit/overnight here during couch-room or standing-room events; this area/neighborhood of Inisfree could provide shelter for ~125,000. Even more could stay in their vehicles parked in the garages and curbside outside.

Roughly 3 more people made this neighborhood their home (or at least their 2nd/vacation home) every year from 2013 to 23000 A.D..

2013: the first ~3 guests or residents here
2022: ~28 living in this neighborhood this year
~23000 A.D. and beyond: ~63,000 at capacity

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Special Features:

One of the more out-of-the-way and difficult-to-reach parts of Inisfree, these buildings include several little-known restaurants, drink huts, time-share hostels, and observation decks, as well as one of the city’s solariums.

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Novels Excerpt:

Above the oasis’s waterfall, and out of sight until they made the ascent by the only elevator present, was another small town’s worth of grouped and like-themed buildings. It was called the Ridge-line Buildings Chain, for they were all linked, more or less, in a wavy sequence that followed the crest of that low mountain range. All of them were in the style called “timber framing”, “post-and-beam”, or “half-timbered”.

Though they looked to be made of shaped boards of wood, no trees had been used in the making of any of the ridge-line buildings –or any buildings in Inisfree. Everything was either local stone or 3D-printed. The Inisfreeans refused to harm any plants or animals in the making or running of their city and ships.

Inside the Ridge-line Building Chain’s lobbies and suites were medieval decorations, all of the highest caliber; tables with artistically-carved legs, candles in sconces on the walls, tapestries and banners next to them, stained-glass windows in some places, candle chandeliers, high-backed armchairs, thick sturdy railings up partially-exposed staircases, and thick bed covers and throws which matched most of the carpets, rugs, and window treatments. The whole neighborhood up on that quarter-mile-wide mountain-range looked like a brand-new yet still-authentic European town from centuries ago.

The Inisfreeans up there dressed the part, each wearing a custom-made and fitted dress called a Dirndl; the kind beer maidens wore in Germany and neighboring lands. They were warm and engaging, waving and hugging people, helping them find what they were looking for up there, or just going for walks with them as friends. Not many ever chose solitude in a city like this; those who’d made it to Inisfree had been through enough of that where they were from.

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History:

In 2022, King Auz started ‘christening’ every single building, room, and piece of furniture in this complex of two parallel rows of buildings.

Jaina is likely the wife of his with whom he will frequent this area the most, as it reminds him a lot of the game that introduced and linked him to her.