City Plan: Pellmoor#

Kethra Almanac • City plans • Approved 19 September 2026 • drafted 19 September 2026

Status: approved. Briana approved the city plans on 19 September 2026 (City Plans and Map Styles Approval). Where this page calls something a proposal, read it as approved. The points under What the plan does not settle are being settled on her instruction of the same day.

Status before approval: This street plan is new material, so it waits for Briana's approval (Almanac Approval Decision). That covers every street, its name, and every district and building not marked canon below. What it takes from the approved almanac is cited to file and line (for example 18:79 is the Lesser Crowns almanac, Part 2, line 79), and nothing here overrides canon. The canon gives the city one line, "a grey stone city at the edge of the moors" (18:79), so nearly all the detail here is proposal.

Using the plan. Drag to move, and zoom with the mouse wheel, the + and − buttons, or a pinch. Names come in as you zoom, each set lettered to read at the same size on screen:

• Whole city: the moor, the districts and the villages.
• About 2½ times: main streets and the great buildings.
• About 6 times: the longer streets and the smaller places.
• About 12 times: the name of nearly every street.

The ⤢ button fills the screen. North is up, and the scale bar bottom left is always true.

The city at a glance#

The districts#

The moor rises to the north-west in a ragged edge, with intakes of farmland pushed up into it and fingers of heather reaching down (proposal). The old pits lie along that edge, with their engine houses and spoil heaps. The city spreads south-east into the vale.

Getting around#

• The Stair Railway (canon): "The Stair Railway (1890s) links all seven capitals. Electrified, not maglev." (18:281) Pellmoor Station (proposal) is in the Rows.
• The Grimholt road (proposal) runs north-west over the moor to Grimholt, where "The Republic is proclaimed" in 1788 (17:120).
• The Westhaven road (proposal) runs west to Westhaven, the Republic's port.
• The Arvenne road (proposal) runs east-south-east toward Arvenne.
• The moor tracks (proposals) are dashed on the plan: the Peat Road up to the peat cuttings, the Tinners' Way west from the old pits, and the Cairn Track.
• Air. There is an airport at Pellmoor (18:284). The plan puts Pellmoor Airport in the vale to the south-east (proposal place).

Landmarks#

Canon places are marked canon. Their position on the plan is a proposal unless the text gives it.

How the streets are named (proposal)#

These rules, as Briana set out on 19 September 2026, hold for every city plan:

• streets are often numbered;
• famous people, leaders above all, get streets, and those streets sit together;
• an estate takes a theme, such as flowers;
• many streets keep the name of whoever first laid the road;
• some streets simply stop at a field whose owner never sold, and the suburbs have their cul-de-sacs.

In Pellmoor the rules take this form:

• The Presidents' streets sit round the Moot, by their plain names: "Rhys Hale Street", never a title. The sitting President has no street.
• The kings keep the Old Town. The Republic did not rename the streets it inherited.
• The Rows are numbered, First Street by the Moot to Thirtieth Street at the Rows' far edge.
• Each district names its streets for its work or its ground: the mine in Pithead and the Rows, the moor in Moorside, the Republic in Lowside.
• The old lanes keep their founders' names. They are the moor's family names: Morgan's Lane, Powell's Lane, Gethin's Lane, Rees's Lane, Hopkin's Lane.
• The villages keep their own streets: Pit Row Lane, Lamp End, Fold Lane, Stile Street.
• Estates were built on the fields that sold, each with a theme:
  • the moor (Heather Avenue, Fell Avenue, Beck Way);
  • flowers (Columbine Way, Marigold Drive);
  • trees (Chestnut Drive);
  • birds (Heron Way, Starling Close);
  • herbs (Coriander Road);
  • stones (Marble Road).
• Fields whose owners never sold are still farmed, with the estates round them.
• Every street longer than 80 m has a name: 4,463 of 4,630.
  • A name is used once in the city.
  • The estates may repeat a name found far off, never within 6 km or in the same locality.
• No towers. Pellmoor does not build upward; it is a grey stone city, and its growth has gone into the vale.

The names avoid everything the naming rules and the canon forbid:

• Nothing is taken from Earth's places or history (05:266).
• No new name uses the crowded families: "-gate", "-mere", "-combe", "Salt-", "Grey-" and "Hollow-".
• The Brennan and Carrick Presidents have no streets, because the canon's Brannock and Harrow groups crowd those names already.

What the plan does not settle#

These are open for Briana; the plan follows the text in each case:

• The mines. The Atlas puts the Pellmoor tin and coal mines 423 km west of the city, its own true location — the plan's Pithead is a separate thing, the city's own old pits, now closed (proposal). Settled: two sites, not one displaced.
• The Republican Guard. The Atlas marks the Guard's barracks 92 km north-north-east, the same world-scale spreading as every other city's institutions. Settled: the plan adds a drill hall in the city for the citizen reserve, and the barracks stay where the Atlas has them.
• The Miners' Institute (17:715) is not placed by the canon. Settled: the plan puts it in the Old Town.

Guidance for AI actors#

• Pellmoor is "Plain-spoken, suspicious of crowns, including the big one." (18:87) Its motto is No Crown on the Moor, its anthem The Pit and the Hearth, and its colour purple (17:63).
• In formal speech everyone is "citizen", visiting royalty included (18:362). Proclamation Day, 12 Blaze, brings brass bands to Grimholt (18:309).
• A Pellmoor address names the district and the street: "the Moot Quarter, Rhys Hale Street"; "the Rows, Ninth Street".
• What is canon, and what is only the plan: the grey stone city at the moor's edge, the Moot, the Miners' Institute, the Pit Lamp, the Republican Guard and the airport are canon. The moor's line, the old pits, the districts, the streets and their names, and the exact positions are the plan's proposals.

Sources#

The almanac, approved 19 September 2026:

• Chapter IV (05);
• the Lesser Crowns (17–18) and their Register (19);
• the Atlas's places at Pellmoor.

The plan is built by _build/make_cityplans.js from _build/city_specs/pellmoor.js, which lists every canon line it keeps.