Caundle Citidel

Caundle Citidel (/caundle/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Greymage Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Caundle Citidel is derived from the Sylvin language, as Caundle Citidel was founded by Byog̈il Haslem, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Caundle Citidel 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). Caundle Citidel receives an average of 139 cm/y (54 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Caundle Citidel covers an area of nearly 72 km² (28 mi²), and an average elevation of 3508 m (11509 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Caundle Citidel was founded durring the late 11th century, by Byog̈il Haslem. The establishment of Caundle Citidel was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Byog̈il Haslem struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Caundle Citidel as a prison colony.

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

Caundle Citidel is buildings are arranged within a network of spacious flagstone streets which form a rectangular grid, where each block verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller block has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The robustly designed timber walls has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

Right off the bat Caundle Citidel hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Caundle Citidel 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.

Caundle Citidel 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.

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

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

Caundle Citidel 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.

Caundle Citidel 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.

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

Caundle Citidel has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Caundle Citidel 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. Caundle Citidel's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Caundle Citidel 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.

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

Caundle Citidel 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.

Caundle Citidel 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 Caundle Citidel's natural decorations nor waterways.

Caundle Citidel 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.

Caundle Citidel 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.

Caundle Citidel 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.

Caundle Citidel's garrison 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 Caundle Citidel hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Spider, Assassin (Giant) near Caundle Citidel are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Caundle Citidel's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Enchantment energies of tier 3 via divine sermons.

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.

Caundle Citidel Census Data: Year 2000

6529 of Caundle Citidel's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 345 work in Agriculture
• 1420 work as Craftsmen
• 525 work as Merchants
• 1008 work as Service Workers
• 659 work as General Laborers
• 263 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1043 work as Civil Servants
• 566 work in Cottage Industries
• 354 work as Artists
• 346 work in Produce Industries

9293 of Caundle Citidel's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1375 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of killed a tyrannical who had controlled Caundle Citidel for years. Caundle Citidel's militia's elite squad is named after .

History