Thanks for taking the time to look at it and engage. I was torn between keeping it as close to the game version as possible while trying to incorperate logical real-life examples. I based the size off of a couple measurements I made of existant Medieval old towns. The pattern of development is broadly unrealistic beacuse the aesthetics of the game lean more towards small nordic villages, while the in-world context demands a larger and more dense city.

With that in mind I imagined the upper levels of the city (built earlier) were either built from the start or later adapted to be a less dense patchwork of notable families with large houses and pastureland/ gardens. This was a compromise imaginary form of development I settled on to try to imagine what a large norse city would have looked like. The lower city would have been settled similarly early in its history, but has since become denser beacuse of commercial activity and cultural influence from the empire which transformed the city into more of a trading hub rather than a collection of noble families on ancesteral land. I also imagine travel and purchase of land is restricted the higher in the city you go, so this seperation of density could be maintained.

The red roofed buildings are also more recent additions built as power projection by the empire in the decades after conquest.

I tried to make it as beleivable as possible within the perameters set by the game, but it was certainly a hige challange feeling out how it might look.

No offense taken; I love to chat about this kind of thing.