Getting around
The life of the streets
The realm is never empty. Its people work at their trades and keep to their corners of the town, and guards stand at every market.
At their work
Smiths at the forge, farmhands in the fields, tapsters at the barrels, the mint's men at the dies: in every town, the townsfolk work at the trade of their place.
In the streets
Burghers, labourers, servants, beggars and drovers stand about the markets, the halls and the taverns. Pedlars, pilgrims and carters stop there on their way.
Dressed for it
Each wears the clothes of their station - a burgher's coat, a labourer's rags, a monk's habit, a guard's mail - and has the look of their own town's people.
Mortal
Townsfolk and guards can be struck down - but the town cries murder, the guards come, and the law posts the killer's name. The dead are replaced after ten minutes. The people who run the realm's services (moneylenders, clerks, merchants, innkeepers) cannot be hurt.
Talk to any of them with the use key: they turn to you and have a word to say. A traveller tells you where they are going. See Crime and the guards for what happens if you strike or kill one.