Town Life

Towns were settlements that provided for themselves through the harvesting and/or processing of non-edible materials, though the operation that saw the town employed - hence being the sole reason for the town's existence, was often owned by someone specific, and not always someone actually present in the town itself.

Inhabitants
A town consisted of a number of dwellings that were often given out as lodging to those that pledged work there - typically people who worked through the off-seasons or year-round with their families living with them, but not every town was the same - many towns also featured an expanded village around the town itself, and the town primarily housed season workers (often the case with mining).

Income
The town itself was a huge source of income to its owner, and many merchant empires were based upon such ownerships, but the feudal era saw the turmoil of such rights constantly switching nature and changing in meaning that it hindered the overall progress of society, and as a result, many towns came to become freestanding dwellings where work crews traded their harvest freely instead of working for a company. In the earlier times, almost all inhabitants of a town were lodged and fed as part of their pay, and in addition, were paid in coin - wages set aside for retirement, and for the purchase of necessities.