Badsey Castle

Badsey Castle (/badsey/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in the Quiegsan Region of the Tetburland.

The name Badsey Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Badsey Castle was founded by Ermé̄sh Hānvē 'Star Nina' Yaw̋ch Ma̋ń̄ Yōkīkī Barnbrook, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Badsey Castle has a yearly average temperature of 27°C (80°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 31°C (87°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 24°C (75°F). Badsey Castle receives an average of 163 cm/y (64 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Badsey Castle covers an area of nearly 34 km² (13 mi²), and an average elevation of 4624 m (15170 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Badsey Castle was founded durring the late 11th century, by Ermé̄sh Hānvē 'Star Nina' Yaw̋ch Ma̋ń̄ Yōkīkī Barnbrook. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Badsey Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Badsey Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Badsey Castle is buildings are arranged arround a single restrictive cobblestone mainstreet with many smaller streets branching off of it which gives the city a over all rectangular shape, albit one warped and twisted by the nature of the curves of the main road. The city is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. The city's exceptionaly well made fortifications have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the city.

Badsey Castle has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Badsey Castle’s streets. The city is very clearly a joyfull place as well as relaxing. Music can be heard often, as well as laughter. The smell of food and drink permiates the air. You can’t help but smile.

Civic Infrastructure

Badsey Castle possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Badsey Castle has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Badsey Castle has an Office of Civil Groundskeeping, which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the construction and upkeep up of all plant life, water features, and other natural decorations within Badsey Castle. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Badsey Castle's parks.

Badsey Castle has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Badsey Castle.

Badsey Castle has a government-funded child care program, overseen by the local Department of Nursemaids, which is responsible for providing childcare to working-class citizens according to local ordinances.

Badsey Castle has a Gravedigger's Guild, which is responsible for collecting the dead and laying them to rest according to all applicable laws and religious customs.

Badsey Castle has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Badsey Castle has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Badsey Castle has a Highwayman's Guild, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

Badsey Castle has a Hall of Slayers, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

Badsey Castle has a monistary of an order of Civil Monks, who provide divine-related services to the general public and maintain Badsey Castle's public wards, blessings, and other arcane systems.

Badsey Castle possesses a Galvanic Power Grid, which brings galvanic current to most if not all buildings in town, and permits a great many consumer goods to function within the City. Badsey Castle's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

Badsey Castle possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Badsey Castle has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Badsey Castle has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands. They are not to be confused with the Office of Civil Groundskeeping as they do not hold authority over nor responsibility for Badsey Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Badsey Castle has a Guild of Roadworkers, who are responsible for maintaining the roadways and public paths within town. They also have the duty of enforcing all civil laws relating to the roadways.

Badsey Castle has a public schooling program overseen by the Hall of Sages who has the responsibility of ensuring access to affordable high-quality education in all basic classes (Reading, Writing, Mathmatics, General Sciences, General Arcana, and Social Education) is made available to all citizens.

Badsey Castle has a public septic system, which allows its citizens to have indoor bathrooms. The septic system is overseen by the League of Sewerkeepers, who posses the legal authority to enforce all laws relating to the septic system, and are also tasked with its maintenance and upkeep.

Cultural Notes

Badsey Castle's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Badsey Castle hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Serpentfolk near Badsey Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Badsey Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves creating small tokens to channel Conjuration energies of tier 1 via singing.

Economy

The following information was obtained via the Imperial Census Bureau as part of the Eyom Economic Outreach Program. It differs from Standard Imperial censuses in that many of Tom's citizens, regardless of culture, work in more than one occupation or hold more than a single job. The Imperial Census Bureau has ruled that a job is a job, hence, the intigers within the data presented here can count an individual more than once.

Badsey Castle Census Data: Year 2000

2910 of Badsey Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 169 work in Agriculture
• 650 work as Craftsmen
• 233 work as Merchants
• 452 work as Service Workers
• 295 work as General Laborers
• 117 work as Skilled Laborers
• 419 work as Civil Servants
• 255 work in Cottage Industries
• 164 work as Artists
• 156 work in Produce Industries

4901 of Badsey Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 159 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Badsey Castle is cursed with recurrent spells of some troublesome disease. The affliction isn’t so fatal as to make living there impossible, but it adds suffering and expense to local lives. The plague might be the product of an ancient curse, the results of long lost toxic remains, or an unavoidable byproduct of whatever industry or purpose justifies the city. It’s probably not overly contagious, but visitors may be in some peril all the same.

Due to a magical anomaly, Badsey Castle is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

The the a coat of plates of Elven High Magic, an a coat of plates imbued with potent amounts of Elven High Magic energies was created near Badsey Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History