Barrowknights

Barrowknights (/barrowknights/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in the Cosea Provence of the Kingdom of Hobben.

The name Barrowknights is derived from the Sylvin language, as Barrowknights was founded by Tregênkèj Adlington Holiday, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Barrowknights has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 21°C (69°F). Barrowknights receives an average of 289 cm/y (113 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Barrowknights covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 2194 m (7198 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Barrowknights was founded durring the late 13th century in winter of the year 1175, by Tregênkèj Adlington Holiday. The establishment of Barrowknights was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Tregênkèj Adlington Holiday electing to pay people to resettle in Barrowknights.

Barrowknights was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Barrowknights is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Barrowknights is is constructed arround a semi-circular narrow cobblestone mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The town resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The town's robustly designed timber walls are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the towns defences.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Barrowknights, 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 town. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Barrowknights 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.

Barrowknights 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.

Barrowknights 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.

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

Barrowknights possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Barrowknights 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 Barrowknights's natural decorations nor waterways.

Barrowknights 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.

Barrowknights 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

Two or more groups of citizens within Barrowknights hate each other. Their neighbors or the local law have kept things from too-overt violence, but members of the groups will constantly interfere with their rivals and cause whatever misery they can get away with. This hate may spring from recent events, or it may be an inherited spite from old wrongs.

Barrowknights's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its fluid and florid elaborate style, comprising ornate, asymmetric designs and pastel shades. It is often considered to be a playful, light style, which made exuberant use of curves and emphasized subtle asymmetry in the general shape of its structures. Walls, ceilings and moldings are decorated with numerous interlacing of curves and counter-curves based on the shapes of ‘C’ and ‘S’, along with shell forms and other naturalistic shapes.

Due to the actions of local Kami, winter is short in Barrowknights.

The Herd Animal, Stag near Barrowknights are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Barrowknights's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 2 via recitation of scripture.

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.

Barrowknights Census Data: Year 2000

443 of Barrowknights's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 29 work in Agriculture
• 95 work as Craftsmen
• 33 work as Merchants
• 73 work as Service Workers
• 44 work as General Laborers
• 16 work as Skilled Laborers
• 65 work as Civil Servants
• 42 work in Cottage Industries
• 23 work as Artists
• 23 work in Produce Industries

950 of Barrowknights's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 43 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Barrowknights makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.

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History

The the a pair of chausses of Mysticism, an a pair of chausses imbued with notable amounts of Mysticism energies was created in Bareho Qûyæ Mîze by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

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