Brierford

Brierford (/brierford / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Metimada County, Geea County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Brierford is derived from the Sylvin language, as Brierford was founded by Yór Yä̂f̄ 'Pumpkin Tiara' Goībóń̄ Yóó̄ Mbó̄sh Bethell-Codrington Woods Wakefield Newell, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Brierford has a yearly average temperature of 24°C (75°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 21°C (69°F). Brierford receives an average of 68 cm/y (26 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Brierford covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 5156 m (16916 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Brierford was founded durring the late 15th century in winter of the year 1363, by Yór Yä̂f̄ 'Pumpkin Tiara' Goībóń̄ Yóó̄ Mbó̄sh Bethell-Codrington Woods Wakefield Newell. The establishment of Brierford was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Yór Yä̂f̄ 'Pumpkin Tiara' Goībóń̄ Yóó̄ Mbó̄sh Bethell-Codrington Woods Wakefield Newell electing to pay people to resettle in Brierford .

Brierford was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Brierford is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature timber and earth construction, with most buildigns first floors resembling mounds of earth, with subsequent floors appearing as elaborate log cabins, with each building forming a tiered pyramid of sorts fromed from the stack of rectangular, peek roofed cabins. Most wooden bracing, support, and trim is carved with decorative knotwork, and the larger structures even feature painted trim which emphasises the knotwork.

Brierford is buildings are located arround a single crampt paverstone mainstreet which forms a clockwise spiral to give the town a over all circular shape. The town has a fortified albit thin brick wall. The wall has most of the feeatures of a typical castle wall, just on a much smaller scale and and budget. Notably brick isn't a particuarly soild choice for resisting siege weapons. Brierford 's wall wouldn't hinder a proper army, but it is more than sufishent for bandits and other small marauding groups. Brierford 's monster and outlaw focused fortifications are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Brierford is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Brierford 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.

Brierford 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.

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

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

Brierford 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

Brierford 's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is skipped in Brierford .

The Spider, Assassin (Giant) near Brierford are known to be quite timid.

Brierford 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves square dance to channel Necromancy energies of tier 3 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Brierford Census Data: Year 2000

312 of Brierford 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 20 work in Agriculture
• 69 work as Craftsmen
• 24 work as Merchants
• 50 work as Service Workers
• 30 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 46 work as Civil Servants
• 29 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 18 work in Produce Industries

695 of Brierford 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 41 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Brierford 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.

The roads leading into Brierford possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century Tarn Champlain began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which devastated , killing every person and animal in its path which could not escape the cloud. Oddly, the plants of the region flourished in the years after the disaster. An estimated people, livestock, and buildings were lost to the disaster. The disaster is referred to as the Cursed Fates Wind.

History