Questions about in game towns and in game town services?

Around how many towns will there be in Ultimate ADOM? Also in starting town(s) what services will be available? In ADOM you had to get a ways in before you could do stuff like smithing. Also you had to hope to get lucky early on in the beginning that you'd find an altar to use to gain piety. Without an altar you had very limited options when it came to recuperating piety. I hope the starting town Ultimate ADOM will have more services available than were present in the starting towns in in ADOM.