In the House of Banu Qasi

[Eulalios]

Rafal Kasiewicz, white-haired and bed-riding Defender of Saraqusta (etat 58, Fighter-12), has only two wives:

Serendib, a grey-braided woman (51) stern of face, straight-backed, and commanding - a daughter of the teyibi clans; and
Dierdre, dark-haired (42), blue eyed, big-bosomed and smiling, a cunning child of the Gaels who haunt the upper Ebro Valley.

Serendib has several children:
lazy, domineering, blunt-mannered Haroun ibn Rafal, eldest-born son (36) Fighter-8;
gluttonous, gossipy, easily-slighted Nour, eldest daughter (34), wife to scholarly Walenty herbu Nalecz (40);
cautious, grasping Melia, second daughter (33);
mischievous, disputatious Zoulika, fourth daughter (27), wife to the woods knight Pere Obrador (Ranger-??); and
three little brothers (Cassim, Vidal, and Zouman) who are teenagers fostered out north into the hill forts of Navarra.

Dierdre, also, has several children:
the astrologer Bleithhian, second son (28) and Sage;
gentle, dreamy Zara, third daughter (27);
Dafythh the Brigand, third son (25) and Fighter-??, who is not often seen in the town; and
two small sisters, María and Ceridwen.

And then there are grandchildren, more than a dozen among the four daughters and unmarried Haroun.

[Eulalios]

It turns out that al-Jafaría Zaragoza was not built until beginning in 1060. So we're about two centuries too early for me to use that floor plan.

However ... the House of Banu Qasi is marked (2) on the city map below. (The heavy brown lines are the 3 km of Roman walls, built early AD, still standing in 882 AD, still standing today).

por Willtron - Trabajo propio. Disponible bajo la licencia CC BY-SA 3.0

Here is some information on the House as it stands today:

cesarausutotorreonzudasn.pdf

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The house is a tower built of pale brown stone on a rectangular plan, about ten yards by fourteen yards on the ground, near seventy feet in height, with a great pointed-arch doorway near fifteen feet high at the ground level. It is called the Stargaze Tower sometimes by the family, because it has a pitched roof perfect for doing just that. Just below the roof is attic storage, including the armory, with eighteen great windows for shooting down with bows. Below the attic armory are family quarters. Below those, servants' quarters. Below those, the workshops, and below those, the great hall into which the great doorway opens. Below the hall, the cellars. Outside the doorway, the governor's / chieftain's plaza, where the lord Banu Qasi will sit in open court on any pleasant day. This plaza, also, is where weapons training, executions, and high markets are held.