Fort Leach

Fort Leach (/liʧ/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in Dragonsea Dutchy, Emzada Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Fort Leach is derived from the Sylvin language, as Fort Leach was founded by Trëmënka Rykener Hewson Broadbridge, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Fort Leach has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 8°C (46°F). Fort Leach receives an average of 192 cm/y (75 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Fort Leach covers an area of nearly 43 km² (17 mi²), and an average elevation of 4432 m (14540 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Fort Leach was founded durring the early 17th century in late winter of the year 1602, by Trëmënka Rykener Hewson Broadbridge. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Fort Leach was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach is buildings are located arround a single crampt baked earthen mainstreet which forms a clockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. The city 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 frontieer-style defences 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.

Fort Leach is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a city, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach 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.

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

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

Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach 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.

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

Fort Leach has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Fort Leach 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 City. Fort Leach's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach 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 Fort Leach's natural decorations nor waterways.

Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach 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.

Fort Leach 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

Fort Leach's garrison 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.

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is long in Fort Leach.

The Porcupine, Giant near Fort Leach are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Fort Leach's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Summoning energies of tier 2 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.

Fort Leach Census Data: Year 2000

3829 of Fort Leach's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 210 work in Agriculture
• 864 work as Craftsmen
• 305 work as Merchants
• 586 work as Service Workers
• 394 work as General Laborers
• 155 work as Skilled Laborers
• 551 work as Civil Servants
• 354 work in Cottage Industries
• 206 work as Artists
• 204 work in Produce Industries

5607 of Fort Leach's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 820 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Fort Leach makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.

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History

Fort Leach used to be more prosperous, but something happened relatively long ago that left it a shrunken shadow of its former self. If the settlement is prosperous, the locals often lament how much more they could have had. If the settlement is not prosperous, the locals blame their ill fortunes on that event. Reminders of this better time can be found in many places within Fort Leach.

The the a library of Truename Magic, an a library imbued with potent amounts of Truename Magic energies was created in Fort Kenn by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History