Ruby

The Ruby county has few landmarks.The county in itself is unique enough to be it's own attraction. The town and markets are not bustling with the common, but rather the tall and pompous glance briefly about themselves before purchasing only what they came for and walking briskly back to their homes in the cooling winds. These homes are not as magnificent as their people, but are almost as unique. A colony of smaller village houses give shelter to the rich, and the middle class wandered elsewhere with the poor. The few structures that stand out are home to the elite and influential. The gap between the economic statuses shows in the architecture of the town. Shops rest on small hills wherever they could lay cobble for paths. Homes take up most of the center and east side of the county, with wealth determining your homestead-- the border of the shops were homes that might have been built for a king, but towards the east were crumbling, rotting frames of shacks and single rooms.

The westward homes are split by a graveled path that leads to another feature-- a bell. A bell tower taller than the tallest building, made from red bricks and white plaster. a small door led to the only interior space, a rounded, tiny room with a rope hanging from the silver bell above. Locked but for Meisters, who held their own keys, it was used for the purpose of sending out a message. When the bell rings, every Meister has an ordained courier that delivers the message back to the castle. Generally, the message is nothing important-- just an announcement of a ball or an arrest of a criminal-- but still, when the bell rings, farmers working their plots and families in their homes pause and wonder.

While the county is almost exclusively populated by sights easily deemed incredible, only one structure can truly call itself a landmark-- the castle of Talvar. Talvar had been in the land since the beginning, the tallest mountain in the whole of the country. It had been said it was once so rich with ruby ore you could see little glints of red from between the blades grass-- so it was only fit to build the castle there, the castle that housed the Meister herself.