Bromyard

Bromyard (/bromyard / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Zelsdagd Hold, Queoulnia Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Bromyard is derived from the Sylvin language, as Bromyard was founded by Tsîbè Witting, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Bromyard 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). Bromyard receives an average of 214 cm/y (84 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Bromyard covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 3308 m (10853 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Bromyard was founded durring the late 13th century in spring of the year 1186, by Tsîbè Witting. The establishment of Bromyard was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Tsîbè Witting struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Bromyard as a prison colony.

Bromyard was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Bromyard 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.

Bromyard is buildings are arranged arround a single premissive packed earth mainstreet with many smaller streets branching off of it which gives the town a over all rectangular shape, albit one warped and twisted by the nature of the curves of the main road. The town resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Unfortuantly, these robustly designed timber walls are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Looking around Bromyard you immediately realise that the locals are looking back at you. All of them. Everywhere you look somone is staring back at you analytically, looking over every inch of you, your gear, and your companions. As you get close to people, their hands move closer to their belt knife, or dagger. You may want to watch where you go and what you say...

Civic Infrastructure

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

Bromyard 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.

Bromyard has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Bromyard 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.

Bromyard 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.

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

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

Bromyard 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

Bromyard 's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Bromyard there is a constant smell of overcooked presumably ethnic food.

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

Bromyard 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Mysticism energies of tier 2 via mimery.

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.

Bromyard Census Data: Year 2000

332 of Bromyard 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 23 work in Agriculture
• 73 work as Craftsmen
• 23 work as Merchants
• 54 work as Service Workers
• 32 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 49 work as Civil Servants
• 32 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

738 of Bromyard 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 56 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Bromyard has been cursed with some blight that makes life difficult, albeit not impossible. An offended sorcerer's vengeful Working, an outraged god's wrath, a local distortion of the Legacy, or a simple history of bad feng shui in the area may have brought the curse about. I(devise not only the curse, but the reason why the locals haven't left for better lands).

Bromyard 's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of protected Bromyard 's harvest from an army of bandits. was immortalized in song for this deed.

History