This idea actually has some backstory to it.
I'm the youngest of three siblings. When I was younger, my two older brothers went to bed later than I did, and as such, the light outside my room was often left on when I was in bed with the light out. This light from under my door combined with my nightlight and whatever other light might have been leaking into my room cast some rather interesting shadows on the ceiling. In fact, the reading lamp combined in a certain way with my bed and the light angles created this shadow which looked like a large mountain with a bridge leading over a vast ravine.
This lead me, whilst lying awake in bed, awaiting sleep, to create stories about a bridge so large that an entire city grew upon it.
Something a couple of weeks ago reminded me of this bridge I had created in my imagination, and I've fleshed it out a little more, but I'd like to see what you people think about it.
So. There is a giant canyon, so deep and so long that it acts as a visible boundary line between two great lands: Kesh and Tharin. The canyon is so massive that only one crossing point exists, and no one knows how it came to be. This crossing is the Great Bridge, and though records of it appear in histories all over the world, no record remains of its creation. The bridge itself is so large that an entire city has, over the years, sprung up on it, with inns, shops, and a tollbooth for travelers who cross there. It has also been a point of contention between Kesh and Tharin, being a position of strategic import. Many wars have been fought over and on the Great Bridge, until at last it was decided to be a neutral point, a city without a country, sustaining and governing itself.
What do you think? What can make this more interesting?
...I might add that not two or three days after I started thinking about this again, I went to the library and found a book called "Shadowbridge" or something similar, which takes place on bridges thousands of miles long that span an endless ocean, and have separate cities or something like that. I felt somehow cheated.
I'm the youngest of three siblings. When I was younger, my two older brothers went to bed later than I did, and as such, the light outside my room was often left on when I was in bed with the light out. This light from under my door combined with my nightlight and whatever other light might have been leaking into my room cast some rather interesting shadows on the ceiling. In fact, the reading lamp combined in a certain way with my bed and the light angles created this shadow which looked like a large mountain with a bridge leading over a vast ravine.
This lead me, whilst lying awake in bed, awaiting sleep, to create stories about a bridge so large that an entire city grew upon it.
Something a couple of weeks ago reminded me of this bridge I had created in my imagination, and I've fleshed it out a little more, but I'd like to see what you people think about it.
So. There is a giant canyon, so deep and so long that it acts as a visible boundary line between two great lands: Kesh and Tharin. The canyon is so massive that only one crossing point exists, and no one knows how it came to be. This crossing is the Great Bridge, and though records of it appear in histories all over the world, no record remains of its creation. The bridge itself is so large that an entire city has, over the years, sprung up on it, with inns, shops, and a tollbooth for travelers who cross there. It has also been a point of contention between Kesh and Tharin, being a position of strategic import. Many wars have been fought over and on the Great Bridge, until at last it was decided to be a neutral point, a city without a country, sustaining and governing itself.
What do you think? What can make this more interesting?
...I might add that not two or three days after I started thinking about this again, I went to the library and found a book called "Shadowbridge" or something similar, which takes place on bridges thousands of miles long that span an endless ocean, and have separate cities or something like that. I felt somehow cheated.
