Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170719162837

Zhengzhou the largest city in the known world, period. A massive cosmopolitan city guarded by both legions of troops and a series of massive walls. Within it's walls is it's own ecosystem almost with mountains, hills, rivers, fields, and valleys all within it's series of walls. The city is like any other in Xin, highly hierarchical with the class divided begin great then anywhere else is Xin. Within it's walls are people from all walks of life. Massive palaces and slums. Grinding poverty and a absurd amount of wealth all within a single city (If it could be considered so).

First the most important part: The walls. The city is divided by a series of massive and rather thick walls so strong they have never been breached in the cities entire history. Each wall is both for defense and to also divide the classes of the city from one another. In this system (for the most part) each ring slowly becomes richer and richer as you go in through the rings.

Zhengzhou itself is built around a massive area with a rather large plateau in the middle (A pretty large plateau that in itself is big enough to build a massive city) while at the outer outer edges of the city is either wide steppes or desert for miles and miles.

Now the life blood of the city: The people. The people are from all over the Empire and with all ethnic groups and people groups in all of Rhun having a part of Zhengzhou. Everyone from every walk of life can be found in Zhengzhou both the legal side and the illegal side, moral and immoral, all in one wonderful city.

Now for information on each of the Rings:

First Outer Ring:

The very first Ring in which beyond lies the steppes or desert and behind small villages and a massive series of fields and aqueducts to both feed the people of the city and to provide materials for the markets. This ring is populated by poor farmers and mass legions of soldiers (Who live on barracks built on the sides of the wall) within this wall are 16 massive towers for both administration and serving as watch towers for oncoming armies.

Second Outer Ring:

The first true city ring and one of the largest rings. The whole ring is pretty much a massive slum or miles of apartment blocks that house the poor of the city. Every once and awhile lives a 'richer' person who has a small estate within the wall and owns a field or two outside the wall. Now this ring also has a very rich sub-part which is the 'port' (A massive man made port that links to the Grand Canal of Xin) many fine palaces, gardens, and bath houses exist in this part of the city.

First Middle Ring:

The first middle ring is the start of the 'decent' side of the city and is where the lower parts of the middle class live. Although much like the ring before with massive apartments these apartments are decent and things like small palaces, tea houses, and gardens exist in this section of walls.

Second Middle Ring:

This ring houses the 'upper' middle class and has much nicer apartments, large open markets, fine gardens, tea houses, and a good amount of bath houses. A few large scale palaces do also exist within this ring (Normally owned by rich merchants). This ring is also the main administrative center of the city with this ring having 4 massive palaces dedicated to the cities administration.

The Grand Plateau/Transition Ring:

Not a full ring in it's own right instead it is a series of 4 massive ramps that connect the plateau to the rest of the city it has two massive gates one at the beginning and one at the end (duh) both are heavily guarded due to peasants and riots tending to want to loot the rich in the rings above.

First inner Ring:

The first of the 'rich' rings where the nobles of the city live. This Ring is although large has a smaller population due to the massive estates, spas, gardens, and many other upper class dwellings.

Second inner Ring:

Much like the first, but with even larger palaces and fine establishments it is also the ring in which the secret police of the city are quartered in the 'Palace of Justice'

Celestial Ring:

The Celestial Ring is a massive area about as large as the inner rings combined in which are housed hundreds of grand palaces and the celestial palace itself. Within it's walls live the royal family and their servants alongside heads of state and prominent generals.

Now for the Civil Service, military, and police parts of the city.

Each ring is home to hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police, and servants all dedicated to the management of the city in all fields (They are not the only servants due to the middle and upper classes having private servants). Each ring also has massive administrative palaces and towers as well as military complexes and large scale prisons and police head quarters. 