Growing the City is a piece of fiction for Ironfire: The City of Steel, one of the supplements for Cities of Sundara, which is available in versions for 5th Edition and Pathfinder.

“Space” said Shenara Locke as their assistant, Marak Colthon, entered the room. Marak was used to these seemingly apropos of nothing comments from the seneschal, and waited until she could be a little more forthcoming.

“Space” said Shenara again, staring at a map of Ironfire that had been unrolled out on the table and weighted down with several paperweights made from polished slag. She pointed at the small communities outside the main walls of the city, near the gates at Oak Gate and North Ward. Both had a few buildings there, beyond the protection of the city’s wall.

“If we build a wall around these two areas, and have another dividing it in two, we will have space to expand the city and can also increase the security, ” Shenara continued, now making more sense. “We’ll need to consider whether or not it would be a good idea having the warehouses at Oak Gate inside the walls, though. Given what they store, it may be better to keep them outside.”

Looking at Marak, Shenara told him, “I want you to look into the matter and come up with some preliminary estimates as to the cost of construction. One you’ve come up with these, and any recommendations as to how best to go about it, I’ll look them over, then present it to the Iron Council and see what they say. I doubt this will be an immediate priority, but it is a potential plan for the future, especially as parts of the city inside the walls are getting heavily populated.”

Marak sighed inwardly, as this looked like it was going to be a lot of work with no immediate use. Still, the idea did have merit, and it wasn’t as if they couldn’t find the stone to make the walls from. That should reduce the costs of an expansion, he mused, as he left to start the planning. And perhaps there was a way of dealing with Oak Gate’s warehouses after all.