Thoughts on homes

People's homes are reflections of their beliefs. How they live, how close, how high. It is easy to visualise cottages and town houses, but you shouldn't. Baring new-build homes, one stands a decent chance of identifying the location of any European home when shown from the street. There are distinct features in so close a people, so why should all fantasy folk live in Bree and drink at the Prancing Pony?

Homes

1. Tall cone houses. Stone, windowless. Multiple floors filled with closely related families. Smoke may come out of the tip. A people who fear outsiders, are remote, defensive. The base contains their goods, with living quarters towards the peak. Agriculture spreads out from them like spokes from a hub.
2. High rising. More than 5 floors, multiple homes. Likely made of clay, wattle, daub, other light materials if in a hot environment. They will bulge and loom. Constant repairs, workers seen hanging off the side in cranes repatching them lest they collapse into the street.