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: 3000 citizens
Local vicar: Rupert
Main Income: Beer (20% 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, due to the huge production of beer there are a lot of inn's in the town.

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Gofau (Town)
District: 2500 citizens
Local vicar: Baldur
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 (Town)
District: 2000 citizens
Local vicar: Sorbad
Main Income: Grain (15 % of the regions production)

Probag is an small settlement against the border 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 (Town)
District: 1800 citizens
Local vicar: Kaidessa
Main Income: Wool (15 % of the regions production)

Labuk is an important pasture land, the farms raise pigs, cattle and predominantly sheep. The population are a mix of noble rich farm owners and poorer farmhands. The vicar constantly has to contend

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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: Labuk
• 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.