Benway

Benway (/ˈbɛnˌweɪ/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small Town located in Byness Dutchy, Liate County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Benway is derived from the Sylvin language, as Benway was founded by Dulepa Raeldireth Barlow, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Benway 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). Benway receives an average of 158 cm/y (62 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Benway covers an area of nearly 3 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 3288 m (10787 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Benway was founded durring the early 15th century in summer of the year 1428, by Dulepa Raeldireth Barlow. The establishment of Benway was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Benway's construction back out of the project. Dulepa Raeldireth Barlow pushed on reguardles, and Benway was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Benway was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Benway is no diffrent. The town'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.

Benway is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of crampt flagstone streets which form triangular paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The town is protected by a series of wooden fences ringing the town's parimiter, which are likly intended to keep varrious beasts out of town rather than protect it from attack by any intelegent agents. The bare minimum defences have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

A look around Benway shows Benway as a den of corruption. Birbes can be seen changing hands openly, such that it must be customary to do so and must have been for a long time. The locals have no fear, no annoyance at the state of things, it simply is. The town has another layer to it as well. Locals can be overheard having academic discussions, as well as talking about scholarly subjects in general. It’s quite clear Benway places a lot of value on education and being a learned individual, or at least, faking it.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Benway 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.

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

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

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

Benway has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Benway 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.

Cultural Notes

Benway's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Benway the utterance of expletives is impossible within city limits. This has changed as the limits have changed, but has not kept up with slang, or swearing in foreign languages.

The Pegasus near Benway are known to be quite timid.

Benway's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves orgies to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 3 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.

Benway Census Data: Year 2000

257 of Benway's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 20 work in Agriculture
• 50 work as Craftsmen
• 20 work as Merchants
• 43 work as Service Workers
• 26 work as General Laborers
• 7 work as Skilled Laborers
• 40 work as Civil Servants
• 26 work in Cottage Industries
• 10 work as Artists
• 15 work in Produce Industries

625 of Benway's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 27 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Benway is uncommonly rich, not only for the gentry but for the common citizens as well. They may produce a valuable good, oversee precious resource extraction, have special economic favors from the ruler, or simply have inherited a vast body of infrastructure. Their neighbors likely view them with envy, and outside raiders and exploiters find them an ideal target.

The center of Benway's town square was built around an ancient standing stone.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century Tarn Suguta began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which was isolated to the area around Benway, which was swallowed by the fumes for several days. Benway lost 275 people, 277 livestock, and 40 buildings in the disaster, though it is of note the local plant life flourished after the disaster. The disaster is referred to as the Ill Tides Wind.

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