hamlet: small settlement with residents serving surrounding resources
village: modest settlement with a church serving surrounding hamlets
town: midsized settlement with a market serving surrounding villages
city: large settlement with a cathedral serving surrounding towns
…they’re each surrounded by satellite instances of smaller settlements, until industrialised resources give way to the wilds…points-of-light settings may balance that heirarchy more sparsely so the wilds dominate industrialised resources but, despite the comparative isolation of settlements, the same general principles still apply…
…it was the first (and one of the few) well-produced modern 3D film and mustered a plurality of its box office return on the hype surrounding that novelty…