I recently walked the entire length and breadth of Novigrad, and the following portraits are of the people I met along the way, offering an intimate glimpse of life in the free city. And as you wander its streets, from the slums of Harborside to the mansions of Gildorf, you see a wonderful variety of faces faces that reflect their surroundings and give the city its character. Like any bustling metropolis, Novigrad is divided into distinct districts.
Those great walls may keep monsters out of Novigrad, but it has plenty of its own. The city has no stationed army, but is watched over by the Temple Guard: a militant arm of the Eternal Fire with a reputation for abusing its power. While monster attacks are a problem for most settlements in the region, Novigrad is protected by impenetrable stone walls designed by architects from the Oxenfurt Academy. The city sits on the northern shore of the Pontar, at the point where the river empties into the Great Sea. Geralt of Rivia’s search for his adoptive daughter Ciri brings him here during the events of The Witcher 3, and he finds a city plagued by organised crime, religious zealotry, and bitter class division.
With a population of 30,000, the free city of Novigrad is the cosmopolitan heart of the Northern Kingdoms.
0 kommentar(er)
