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name: create-location
description: Create a new Region or City note for the Baltun'ia campaign from the Location Framework Template — placed correctly in the Regions hierarchy, wikilinked, and added to its parent's index. Use when the DM wants to add a region, province, city, town, or settlement (e.g. "add a new city to Jessergate", "create the region north of the mountains", "make a fishing village in The Weald"). For a specific building/site inside a city use create-poi instead.
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# Create a Region or City

First read `.claude/skills/_shared/vault-conventions.md` and
`z_templates/Framework Templates/Location Framework Template.md`. Look at a real
region (`2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Jessergate.md`) and a
real city (`.../Jessergate/Voxiu/Voxiu.md`) — note the **condensed** real-world
style: regions lead with Geography / Weather / Specific History / Notable Cities
(`[[links]]`) / Based Species (`[[links]]`); cities lead with **Type** + Notable
Features, a prose intro, then Governance / Economy (often a pipe table) /
Defenses / Culture.

## Steps

1. **Region or city?** Decide (ask if unclear):
   - Region → `Regions of Baltun'ia/<Region>/<Region>.md`
   - City/town → `<Region>/<City>/<City>.md` (confirm which region it sits in;
     wikilink and cross-add to the region's Notable Cities).

2. **Mine canon.** Check the parent region note, the Regions Index, the Economy
   table, and recaps for anything already said about this place. Stay consistent
   with neighboring climate/species/politics.

3. **Draft the geography, climate, type, and economy** yourself — these follow
   from the world map and surrounding regions.

4. **Collaborate on the creative pivots.** Use AskUserQuestion for:
   - Governance / who holds power, and which faction dominates
   - The defining tension or current conflict here
   - 1–2 plot hooks and any secret tied to the ley-line conspiracy
   Offer options that fit the region's established character.

5. **Write the file** using the condensed local style (not the bare template
   verbatim). Wikilink species, neighboring regions, factions, and notable
   NPCs. Use a pipe table for any economic breakdown.

6. **Index it.** Add a `[[wikilink]]` from the parent (region → Regions Index;
   city → its region's Notable Cities). Flag sub-locations/NPCs worth stubbing.