Describe a Medieval Castle in five minutes….
- Stone
- brick
- cold
- damp
- dark
- servants wandering around
- a dark spell cast upon it
- moat
- bridge over the moat
- soldiers guarding it’s gates
- several towers
- one tower the highest of them all
- Wizard at the top of the tower
- horses
- stable
- stable boys
- Lord of the castle
- Lady of the castle
- guards
- straw in the stable
- smells like an outhouse
- people dump their chamber pots over the balcony of their rooms into the castle “sewer” system along the street
- sound of chickens
- people talking
- horses neighing and the sound of horses feet clipping on the rock streets
- smell of people who only bath once or twice a year
- smell of posies
- smell of ashes from bodies burning due to the black plague
- steps winding up around the castle
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