Madina Gardens

The Madina gardens are beautiful green fertile plains. The barley, grains and livestock are seen everywhere in the gardens and every household has a small but beautiful family garden sealed from anybody except for the family and close friends.

The Gardens, are known for the strong ocean winds and feed the southern island. Madina Gardens has 5 villages and 1 town at this moment. There are however a lot of small settlements throughout the region with are only a few miles aways from each other and some of these settlements have the potential of growing into village. These settlements contain about 2-5 households and fall under the jurisdiction and leadership of the villages or towns and its vicar*.

*The vicar controls a district of the region. This is however is only an roleplay title.

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Larafa (Town)
District: 500 citizens
Local vicar: Geron Mochi
Main Income: Beer (25% of the regions production)

Larafa is the only town in the Gardens and is also the main trading hub between Mardina and the rest of the island. The city is split by the main roads leading from Madina to further north. On this roads is an small market and a lot of back streets with all kind of shops, from smiths to butchers. Larafa is also an social hub where a lot of traders rest before moving to Madina, duo to the huge production of beer there are a lot of inn's in the town.

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Gabina (Village)
District: 250 citizens
Local vicar: Kyra Lumberjack
Main Income: Grain (30% of the regions production)

Gabina lies West of the city of Mardina, south west in the region of the Gardens. There main production come from the man grain fields they have`in the surrounding area. There are a lot of farms in this district however only a few settlement.

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Gofau (village)
District: 200 citizens
Local vicar: Vongaiel Zarkonian
Main Income: Bread (20% of the regions production)

Gofau is an decent sized village. The village itself has a lot of bakeries and make most of the money from that. The district consist of a lot of smaller settlement. Most of them containing some sort of mill and some houses of the employees operating the mill. A lot of these settlements have some lands around them where they grow grain. However the mills mainly buy there grain in from the farm from Gabina and surrounding.

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Probag (village)
District: 100 citizens
Local vicar: Joneleth templars
Main Income: Grain (15 % of the regions production)

Probag is an small settlement against the bored of Madina. It main production is grain from grain field and sell the grain at Madina or Larafa as both are as far away.

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Labuk (village)
District: 100 citizens
Local vicar: -
Main Income: Meat (5% of the regions production)

Labuk is an village located in the forest to the east of the Gardens. It started off as an hunting place and quickly grown out to be an bigger community. The Citizens of this region however do not tolerate others hunting in there forest with has resulted in a couple of murders. The district has one village on the outskirt of the forest and about three settlements in the forest itself. The vicar lord also controls the region north of the forest.

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Lawdens (Village)
District: 50 citizens
Local vicar: -
Main Income: Fish (5% of the regions production)

Lawdens had recently officially been recognized as an village and it gained it's own district. It is the smallest village of them all and there main income comes from fishing. The village lies on the east coast of the Gardens. It is an relative save village where everyone knows each other.

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(I made this with lacking skills in paint shop pro as you can see)

• Orange: Marquees land
• Light blue: Larafa
• Yellow: Gabina
• Brown: Gofau
• Green: Lubak
• Red: Probag
• Dark blue: Lawdens

• Big dots: Town/Village/Marquees Mansion
• Small dots: Settlements

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Sailors have honored the gardens with a song which is known for generations.

I sailed on the Madina sea blue, I sailed me with my true love My strong heart strove the two between, the old ship and the one The old for her, the new that made me think of Madina gardens While strong wind blew in my sails and shook the green gardens

Twas hard the woeful words to frame to break the ties that bound us But harder still to bear the shame of ocean storm around us And so I said, "We drop anchor here, and sail out morning early” And join the bold fortunate men," while strong wind shook the gardens

While sad I took away her sails, a tear for her long service A ocean’s storm burst on our decks from out the big blue deeps A thunder pierced my old love's side and taken by the deep blue And I full of tears she sank while strong winds shook the gardens

But blood for blood without remorse I've taken on the big blue sea And granted her my old love's wreck and some day I may follow So deep her grave I still dream, noon, night and morning early With breaking heart when I hear the strong wind that shakes the gardens.

OOC: The song is taken from The wind that shakes the Barley a song from Ireland. Of course it is changed to fit Madina more but I suggest you all listen it once and go see the movie.