A typical settlement

In Triman, several different ways of organising a household are common. In the rural areas, most live in villages surrounded by a wooden palisade to keep out wild animals, and keep the domestic animals inside. Most cities have stone walls and a keep where the noble ruling the city lives. What is on the inside of the palisade or city walls varies from province to province. In Gradoslavl, the villages have the church in the center. Most houses are small and made of wood. There are separate buildings for people, stables and food storage all surrounded by a high fence. Any trade building, like a bakery, a shoemakers shop and so on are built as a separate building, with a wall shared with the fence and an entrance to the street. Richer families might live in stone houses or bigger wooden houses. Usually only one family lives in a house, and if there are servants, they would live in a separate building. In Gradoslavl kin settle close by, often in neighbouring houses, so that a street can often be traced back to an original family. The same pattern is seen in Gradoslavian cities. Here the settlement is also divided by social class, with the nobles living in the middle of the city, closest to the main church and the castle of the ruling boyar. Around this are there usually is a stone wall. Next comes the merchant and craftsmen district, which also has a wall, that usually is only of wood. Outside the city wall, the poorer people live with no city walls to protect them.