It's hard to find a decent picture of a motte & bailey castle on the Internet. Usually, they're very neat; with an even motte and a nice, nearly circular bailey...
...So I was quite pleased to see this reconstruction drawing of a small motte & bailey castle, such as DW characters might encounter in the northern lands of Ellesland.
(Taking my cue from DW Book 6, page 22; “the perfect gentle knight of an elegant castle in, say, Chaubrette cuts a very different figure from his rough Elleslandic cousin, sitting in a draughty keep, clutching a wench in one hand and a brimming mead-horn in the other” - I tend to see castles in Ellesland as more 'primitive' than those of the Coradian states. The further south in Ellesland you travel, the more wooden forts are replaced by stone keeps and curtain walls... As you cross the sea to the mainland, the castles start to get more elaborate - with extra towers, gateworks, &c.)
The attached image is a reconstruction of Halton Castle, in Lancashire in the late 11th Century.
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