Farfair

Farfair (/farfair/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in the Izclea Region of the Tetbur Commune.

The name Farfair is derived from the Sylvin language, as Farfair was founded by Tseibnaer Hirst, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Farfair has a yearly average temperature of 28°C (82°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 33°C (91°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 24°C (75°F). Farfair receives an average of 283 cm/y (111 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Farfair covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4128 m (13543 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Farfair was founded durring the late 13th century in summer of the year 1199, by Tseibnaer Hirst. The establishment of Farfair suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Farfair which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

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

Farfair is was constructed arround several crampt carved bedrock mainstreets which cross one another at certain axies, with smaller streets branching off of them to premit acess to the many buildings deeper into the road network. The overall fashion is remenessent of a circulatory system, or other organic construct, and is quite effishent in its design. The town sits comfortably behind a palisade wall complete with a timber gatehouse and battlments. Farfair's timber-based walls are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the town as needed.

A look around Farfair seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Farfair 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.

Farfair 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.

Farfair 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.

Farfair 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.

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

Farfair 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 Farfair's natural decorations nor waterways.

Farfair 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.

Farfair 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

Farfair's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used has a sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation. The primary facade of its buildings often featured a series of set backs that create a stepped outline. Low-relief decorative panels can be found at entrances, around windows, along roof edges or as string courses. It was best known for its use of smooth finish building materials such as stucco, concrete block, glazed brick or mosaic tile. Decorative details can incorporate various artistic or exotic motifs to suit the building's function or the architect's whim. Chevrons, zigzags, and other geometrical motifs are common forms of ornament.

In Farfair birds speak prophesy.

The Human Juju Zombie near Farfair are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Farfair's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves orgies to channel Enchantment energies of tier 3 via throat singing.

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.

Farfair Census Data: Year 2000

430 of Farfair's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 96 work as Craftsmen
• 33 work as Merchants
• 70 work as Service Workers
• 44 work as General Laborers
• 15 work as Skilled Laborers
• 65 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 23 work in Produce Industries

891 of Farfair's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 40 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Farfair is cursed with recurrent spells of some troublesome disease. The affliction isn’t so fatal as to make living there impossible, but it adds suffering and expense to local lives. The plague might be the product of an ancient curse, the results of long lost toxic remains, or an unavoidable byproduct of whatever industry or purpose justifies the city. It’s probably not overly contagious, but visitors may be in some peril all the same.

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

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History

The the a suit of Banded mail of Necromancy, an a suit of Banded mail imbued with great amounts of Necromancy energies was created near Falcabbey by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History