Barbon Castle

Barbon Castle (/barbon/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Nō̌gyaw̄wē Dutchy, Dāmêvr Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Barbon Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Barbon Castle was founded by Êrêv Worrell, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Barbon Castle has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 11°C (51°F). Barbon Castle receives an average of 142 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Barbon Castle covers an area of nearly 149 km² (59 mi²), and an average elevation of 3028 m (9934 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Barbon Castle was founded durring the late 14th century in winter of the year 1259, by Êrêv Worrell. The establishment of Barbon Castle was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Barbon Castle's construction back out of the project. Êrêv Worrell pushed on reguardles, and Barbon Castle was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Barbon Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Barbon Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Barbon Castle is is constructed arround a series of crampt flagstone mainstreets which form overlapping circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. 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 are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Barbon Castle, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same divine, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its divine. Asside form the revrent worship, you can see the citizens are preparing for something, and that something isn’t good. Weapons are worn openly. Defensive structures have been recently constructed to guard less used areas of the city. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Barbon 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 Barbon Castle. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Barbon Castle's parks.

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

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

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

Barbon Castle has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Barbon 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 Large City. Barbon Castle's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Barbon Castle's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Barbon Castle has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Barbon Castle has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Barbon 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 Barbon Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

Barbon 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.

Barbon Castle is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

Barbon Castle's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used which employed abundant symbolic geometry, using pure forms such as the circle and square, and plans are based on often symmetrical layouts featuring rectangular courtyards and halls. These structures were is decorated with carved stone or stucco reliefs and made use of colorful stone mosaics..

Due to the actions of local Kami, winter is long in Barbon Castle.

The Megafauna, Archelon near Barbon Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Barbon Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves sex to channel Abjuration energies of tier 1 via chanting.

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.

Barbon Castle Census Data: Year 2000

13460 of Barbon Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 778 work in Agriculture
• 3104 work as Craftsmen
• 1110 work as Merchants
• 1958 work as Service Workers
• 1371 work as General Laborers
• 542 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1938 work as Civil Servants
• 1208 work in Cottage Industries
• 738 work as Artists
• 713 work in Produce Industries

20084 of Barbon Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1765 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Barbon 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

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of spared the town from the rampage of a legendary monster. Barbon Castle's militia's elite squad is named after .

History