Castle

A Castle refers to a medieval European fortress (though the term is also applied to a variety of non European fortresses as well), usually used as the residence and seat of power of some noble household. Castles are distinct from fortified towns and cities with walls, though towns often grew around castles and castles called citadels were sometimes constructed in or near cities to protect them. The word comes from the Latin castrum, referring to the fortified bases in which the Romans stationed their legions.

Naturally most GrimDark fictions don't show one of the keep roles of Castle, protecting peasants during wars. After all if they all die who's going to man the farms which feed your troops?

Parts of a Castle

• Walls
• Moats
• Turrets
• Keep
• Armories
• Granaries
• Dungeons
  • Some of the dungeons that went overboard with the torture equipment could easily have been /d/ungeons.
• Traps (burning oil from above, giant boulder, spike walls and stuffs)
• Kitchens
• Rest room (knights needs to poop you know?)
• Parapets

Types of Castles

• Motte and Baily: A fairly basic type of castle in the Dark Ages. A hall of either stone or wood (the Baily) is built on top of a hill, a basic wooden wall is put around it, at the base of the hill was built some stabled and similar which were also walled off. In some cases the wall (the Motte) circled both, in other cases there were two rings of walls around both the hall as well as the support structures, with a walled off corridor between them.

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