Darwen Citidel

Darwen Citidel (/darwen/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in the Izclea Region of the Tetburland.

The name Darwen Citidel is derived from the Sylvin language, as Darwen Citidel was founded by Pangwen Slaight, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Darwen Citidel has a yearly average temperature of 28°C (82°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 32°C (89°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 24°C (75°F). Darwen Citidel receives an average of 243 cm/y (95 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Darwen Citidel covers an area of nearly 132 km² (52 mi²), and an average elevation of 2988 m (9803 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Darwen Citidel was founded durring the late 19th century in late spring of the year 1857, by Pangwen Slaight. The establishment of Darwen Citidel was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Darwen Citidel's construction back out of the project. Pangwen Slaight pushed on reguardles, and Darwen Citidel was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Darwen Citidel was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 19th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Darwen Citidel 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.

Darwen Citidel is buildings are speckled and packed arround broad paverstone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the city's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a city. The city posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Darwen Citidel weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. Darwen Citidel's budget focused millitary grade defenses has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

A quick look in any direction shows Darwen Citidel is filled with vices. There are many taverns, brothels are advertising their services on the streets, cardsharks are plying their illicit trade within public squairs, and every shop has at least three signs advertising various sales on goods. That alone wouldn’t be too noticeable, if it wasn’t just so omnipresent and overwhelmingly how the people of this city live. Or if the general public wasn’t so enthusiastically, openly, and merrily participating in these activities.

Civic Infrastructure

Darwen Citidel 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.

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

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

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

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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.

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

Darwen Citidel has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Darwen 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. Darwen Citidel's grid is powered by an arcane means.

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

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

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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 Darwen Citidel's natural decorations nor waterways.

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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.

Darwen 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

Darwen Citidel's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Darwen Citidel sometimes, near one of the seasonal solstices, the sun appears to split into three and it rains from a clear sky for several hours.

The Human Juju Zombie near Darwen Citidel are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Darwen Citidel's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves square dance to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 1 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Darwen Citidel Census Data: Year 2000

11908 of Darwen Citidel's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 660 work in Agriculture
• 2681 work as Craftsmen
• 954 work as Merchants
• 1814 work as Service Workers
• 1213 work as General Laborers
• 480 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1737 work as Civil Servants
• 1052 work in Cottage Industries
• 667 work as Artists
• 650 work in Produce Industries

18461 of Darwen Citidel's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 939 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Darwen Citidel produces something unique, a good or service that cannot be had anywhere else in the kingdom. This may be due to some unique resource found only there, or some carefully-guarded craft, or it may be a special service that can only be provided by the locals, who are somehow unique in their forms or abilities.

Darwen Citidel is known for its unusual rock formations.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Darwen Citidel was attacked by savage formianss living nearby. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Darwen Citidel lost 204 people, 205 livestock, and 96 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 175, when members of Darwen Citidel's militia enacted an operation to deliver a message to a religious figure, then secure them. The operation was complicated by a key segment of the operation that deepened entirely on a stealth mission going perfectly. The conflict ended with needing to break through the enemy's lines, which ended in defeat for Darwen Citidel's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Darwen Citidel's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History