Camnagar

Camnagar (/kæm/ /nagar/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Dunscast Earldom of the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Camnagar is derived from the Sylvin language, as Camnagar was founded by Ma̋chvé̄ Erméch 'Xandy Sasha' Ca̋mé̄ Mé̄y Ya̋mē Culver, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Camnagar has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 19°C (66°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 12°C (53°F). Camnagar receives an average of 240 cm/y (94 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Camnagar covers an area of nearly 480 km² (192 mi²), and an average elevation of 976 m (3202 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Camnagar was founded durring the late 12th century in summer of the year 1094, by Ma̋chvé̄ Erméch 'Xandy Sasha' Ca̋mé̄ Mé̄y Ya̋mē Culver. The establishment of Camnagar suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Camnagar which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Camnagar was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Camnagar is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Camnagar is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of crampt cobblestone 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 sits behind an impressive looking clay brick wall. The wall is notable for querried stone blocks being used to renforce the clay bricks in the expected manner and locations. While the wall was built to the exact specifications of modern fortifications, one has to wonder why the money invested into creating such a well fortified wall wasnt spent on a less impressive looking wall crated from sturdier materials. Camnagar's walls would endure a brief bombardment, but only from light siege weapons. It seems more likly the city's walls were not designed with defence in mind but rather lending the town a certain air with visitors. Unfortuantly, these boondoggle-of-a-fortified wall 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 Camnagar 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

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

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

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

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

Camnagar 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.

Camnagar 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.

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

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

Camnagar 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.

Camnagar 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.

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

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

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

Camnagar's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

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

Camnagar has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Camnagar 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 Camnagar's natural decorations nor waterways.

Camnagar 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.

Camnagar 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.

Camnagar 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.

Camnagar is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Camnagar's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Camnagar there are unidentifiable people in the fog, but it seems to be okay.

The Cicada Swarm near Camnagar are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Camnagar's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves long periods of drunkenness to channel Invocation energies of tier 2 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.

Camnagar Census Data: Year 2000

43429 of Camnagar's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 2418 work in Agriculture
• 9950 work as Craftsmen
• 3490 work as Merchants
• 6579 work as Service Workers
• 4367 work as General Laborers
• 1792 work as Skilled Laborers
• 6224 work as Civil Servants
• 3906 work in Cottage Industries
• 2409 work as Artists
• 2294 work in Produce Industries

62449 of Camnagar's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 7969 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Camnagar has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of secured a clean water supply for . The recitation of the hero's story remains a popular tavern and fair tale.

History