Editing WFRP: A Private War (section)

==Background Info==

The setting is based on WFRP1e canon, with modifications.

===[http://www.shadow-warriors.co.uk/Players%20Info.htm Guide to the Empire]===

===Middenheim===

====[http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4103/middenheimcommonknowled.jpg Common Knowledge about Middenheim]====

====[http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/707/warhammercitymaplowres.jpg Map of Middenheim]====

====Collegium Theologica====
The Collegium (location 32) was originally founded in 1762 as a seminary for young Ulrican priests, and the Department of Holy and Scriptural Studies (DHSS) is still the largest faculty. Nevertheless, nowadays the Collegium offers as wide a range of subjects as any university, even though it still technically doesn't have an imperial charter granting it university status. Certainly, it considers itself the equal of the University of Altdorf. The Collegium's library is the largest in Middenheim, with excellent collections on history and law and, of course, of Ulrican religious writings. About 50 new students enroll each year, at a cost of 50GCs, although some become Faculty Scholars, which gives them on-site accomodation in return for doing small services for the professors.

The legal status of the Collegium is unclear. It runs its own court system (including a small Watch and a comfortable jail) under the auspices of the Law Department. Trials are presided over by the elderly Chancellor, Lienhard von Altenhaus, the Dean of the DHSS and a representative of the cult of Ulric, but according to an arrangement that applies to every university in the Empire, the court ultimately defers to the University of Altdorf. This is potentially problematic since the Collegium's Law Department is Ulrican and also heavily involved with the Temple of Verena, whereas Altdorf's is Sigmarite with strong links to the cult of Solkan. In addition, because of the lack of an imperial charter, the Worshipful Guild of Legalists claims that the Collegium is not a university and therefore falls under civil law.

===Beeckerhoven===

(pop. 408; main industry: timber, trade)

Beeckerhoven is a small town, whose walls have only been partially maintained and could clearly not withstand a modern siege with batteries of cannon. Unusually, arrivals don’t have to pay a toll to enter the walls – perhaps a measure to encourage trade. 

====Landmarks====

'''The Walls:''' only the three gatehouses (north, south and west) are in good repair and in some areas, especially the Warehouse District, people have built right up onto the walls, despite city ordinances not to.

'''Hauptstrasse:''' the "Main Street" from south to north, bisecting the town. Both the Wolf Runner and Four Seasons’ inns face onto it.

'''Marktplatz:''' abutting Hauptrasse on the west, "Market Square" is the town’s main square, containing a small covered market, a Town Hall (with council offices), the Watch and the temple of Ulric.

'''Salzstrasse:''' "Salt Street" runs from the Marktplatz to the west, ultimately towards Salzenmund. The Merchants’ Guild faces onto the street and the Physicians’ Guild is just off it, to the south.

'''Temple District:''' mainly called this because the Temple of Ulric is on the south-west side of the Marktplatz, this is the most affluent area of Beeckerhoven to the west of Hauptstrasse and south of Salzstrasse. This is where the Physicians' and Merchants' Guilds are located, as well as the town's only shrine to Sigmar.

'''Physicians' Guild:''' this is not much more than a small, but well-appointed guesthouse. The expensively wood-panneled entrance hall is clearly meant to impress locals and reassure visitors from Salzenmund and Middenheim that they aren't stuck in the back of beyond. A liveried clerk sits behind a reception desk on which a notice asks for donations to the Dr Thurn Memorial Fund. Past the desk, through an open door, can be glimpsed a lounge with upholstered armchairs, ashtrays for pipeweed smokers and a small bar. 

'''The Warehouse District:''' taking up most of the north of the town, also home to the imperial garrison, the municipal stables and, in the more residential, working-class part, the temple of Shallya with its orphanage-cum-workhouse. The name of the area is a bit of a misnomer: although there certainly are warehouses here, especially to store timber, there are also working-class residences and workshops. Some streets are clearly built to be wide enough for a wagon, with occasional squares to allow two to pass or one to turn round. Smaller alleys lead between the houses and warehouses off the main streets and open out into small courtyards with a well or just end suddenly at the city wall. The people here are practical, no-nonsense Nordlanders, with a taste for drink and boisterous celebrations.

'''Amboss Platz:''' "Anvil Square" is the biggest in the Warehouse District, but diverges from the functionality of the area only by having a statue in the middle of the square. It's dominated by the gaol and associated watch house on one side, and the Minter's, a squat, two-storey building with a tiled roof, on the other.

'''Temple of Shallya:''' this temple is very different from the marble-faced and frescoed building in Middenheim. It's small, with its simplicity coming from poverty and cheapness rather than elegance, and the orphanage next door is brutally utilitarian, with bars on the windows. Shallya's doors are never locked but the austere interior is lit by only a single candle set up on a tall candlestick in front of the temple's rather ill-shaped statue to the goddess. The temple is spotlessly clean, so that the cold flagstones gleam.

'''Imperial Garrison:''' the regiment is an Ersatztruppe - a reserve unit comprised of the men too infirm, lazy, traumatised or prematurely old to be of battlefield use but who can still undertake basic garrison duties in a backwater town like Beeckerhoven. The commander is a decent man, but boredom and a lack of real responsibility have driven him to drink.

===Seuchenshof===

Located north-east of Beeckerhoven, near the border of Nordland and Ostland, this Shallyan-run former hospice for victims of the Black Plague was once so feared that no one went there if they could possibly help it. But the installation of a new abbess a few years ago, the re-organisation of its medical care and a wave of apparently miraculous cures from its spring waters have made it an increasingly attractive destination for well-to-do families in Nordland, western Ostland and even Middenheim.