Bungate

Bungate (/bungate / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Meamaka County, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Bungate is derived from the Sylvin language, as Bungate was founded by Hyandotame Christie, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Bungate has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -1°C (31°F). Bungate receives an average of 138 cm/y (54 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Bungate covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4368 m (14330 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Bungate was founded durring the early 11th century, by Hyandotame Christie. The establishment of Bungate suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Bungate which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Bungate was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Bungate 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.

Bungate is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of premissive paverstone 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 well-crafted cobblestone fence tall enough to provide adiquite cover for defenders to fire from, but no more than that. The town's frontieer-style defences are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the town's defences.

Bungate seems to be abandoned at first. There are people present, working their trades and going about their business like any community, it’s just they are absurdly quiet. Just as you start to think there might be trouble, you see most of them are smiling, quietly exchanging words with a friend, or simply enjoying the day as they work. It reminds you of an evening at home as everyone dined, having run out of things to talk about and embraced the savory meal before them.

Civic Infrastructure

Bungate possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

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

Bungate 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.

Bungate 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.

Bungate 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.

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

Bungate has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

Bungate 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 Town. Bungate 's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

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

Bungate 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.

Bungate 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

The locals are convinced that there is some terrible threat against them working from within their society. It may be a matter of dark sorcerers, foreign spies, traitorous neighbors, shape shifting monsters, or some other hidden evil. This evil may be a recent fear, or it may be an inherited peril they’ve always had to guard against. The danger itself may or may not exist, or if it exists it may not justify the steps being taken.

Bungate 's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Bungate leaves and flower petals never touch the ground.

The Caypup near Bungate are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Bungate 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves orgies to channel Conjuration energies of tier 2 via recitation of poetic epics.

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.

Bungate Census Data: Year 2000

405 of Bungate 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 89 work as Craftsmen
• 31 work as Merchants
• 67 work as Service Workers
• 41 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 59 work as Civil Servants
• 40 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

823 of Bungate 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 92 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Bungate '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 late 2nd century a great windstorm struck Bungate . Its winds were so great they picked up unsecured objects and flung them with enough force to smash brick and skull alike. Buildings collapsed under the gale, burying countless people alive. The storm's devistation was focused on the area arround Bungate , which lost 156 people, 116, and 58 livestock in the disaster.. History remembers the strom as The Storm of Doom.

History