Brockeye Castle

Brockeye Castle (/brockeye/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Jandell Dutchy, Jiea Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Brockeye Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Brockeye Castle was founded by Êgarêbmê Rushton, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Brockeye Castle has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 17°C (62°F). Brockeye Castle receives an average of 140 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Brockeye Castle covers an area of nearly 113 km² (45 mi²), and an average elevation of 10894 m (-7208 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Brockeye Castle was founded durring the late 12th century in fall of the year 1067, by Êgarêbmê Rushton. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Êgarêbmê Rushton.

Brockeye Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Brockeye Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature waddle and daub construction with good timber frames and a stone foundation protected by thatched or shingled rooves. Most buildings with second floors are built in such a way as to overhang into the streets on the upper floors for more space, as building size seems to be the primary indicator of wealth within the community. Most buildings are not decorated with any integral features, but instead use ivy, flowers, and other natural elements in planters of on trellices to breathe life into the structure they grow upon.

Brockeye Castle is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of premissive 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 city 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. Brockeye Castle's wall wouldn't hinder a proper army, but it is more than sufishent for bandits and other small marauding groups. Unfortuantly, these monster and outlaw focused fortifications are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Brockeye Castle has the unmistakable air of a city on its last legs. Everything is a bit slipshod and ramshackle. Everyone is at work, or drinking. No one has anything in their eyes other than fear and despair. Whatever industry once fueled Brockeye Castle ’s existence has dried up and the city is drifting down the stream of history as it dries up. The locals seem to have responded to their slow downfall by recreating Brockeye Castle as one of the strictest places imaginable. Everyone’s actions are clearly directed by laws they keep in heart and mind at all times. Orderly byond order is a phrase which the city brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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.

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

Brockeye Castle has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Brockeye 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. Brockeye Castle's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Brockeye 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.

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

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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 Brockeye Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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.

Brockeye 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

Brockeye Castle's citizens locals enjoy many vices and lustful appetites. They may have religious sanction for their deeds, or neighbors might trade with them for such things, or they could be followers of some ideology that blesses such pursuits. Their economy or their social organization is usually heavily reliant on such traffic, and to ensure its continuance they may have made bargains with various mortal and immortal powers.

Brockeye Castle's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is short in Brockeye Castle.

The Snallygaster near Brockeye Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Brockeye Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Summoning energies of tier 1 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.

Brockeye Castle Census Data: Year 2000

10251 of Brockeye Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 554 work in Agriculture
• 2291 work as Craftsmen
• 816 work as Merchants
• 1538 work as Service Workers
• 1069 work as General Laborers
• 417 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1596 work as Civil Servants
• 866 work in Cottage Industries
• 568 work as Artists
• 536 work in Produce Industries

14556 of Brockeye Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2157 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Brockeye Castle is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami ended a famine plaguing Brockeye Castle. One of Brockeye Castle's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History