Goldmire Castle

Goldmire Castle (/goldmire/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Dorway Dutchy, Loqulate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Goldmire Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Goldmire Castle was founded by Hithwen Eakin, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Goldmire Castle has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 12°C (53°F). Goldmire Castle receives an average of 138 cm/y (54 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Goldmire Castle covers an area of nearly 58 km² (23 mi²), and an average elevation of 5594 m (18353 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Goldmire Castle was founded durring the early 13th century in summer of the year 1215, by Hithwen Eakin. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Goldmire Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Goldmire Castle is no diffrent. The city'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.

Goldmire Castle is buildings are speckled and packed arround narrow baked earthen 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 sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. The would-be-castle fortifications have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Goldmire Castle is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Goldmire Castle 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.

Goldmire Castle 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.

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

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

Goldmire Castle 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.

Goldmire Castle 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.

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

Goldmire Castle has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Goldmire Castle 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. Goldmire Castle's grid is powered by an arcane means.

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

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

Goldmire Castle 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.

Goldmire Castle 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 Goldmire Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Goldmire Castle 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.

Goldmire Castle 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.

Goldmire Castle 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

Goldmire Castle's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used embraces individualism and experimentation. It emerged as a movement against traditional, classical styles and sought to make buildings dynamic and fun while breaking the rules. The style incorporated elements of previous architectural styles in exaggerated and whimsical ways. Traditional, conservative leanings were void in this era, with most scholars of architecture agreeing it was a time of “anything goes.”.

In Goldmire Castle rainbows form quite often above the Large City.

The Yothga near Goldmire Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Goldmire Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves line dance to channel Illusion energies of tier 3 via oath swearing.

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.

Goldmire Castle Census Data: Year 2000

5169 of Goldmire Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 274 work in Agriculture
• 1144 work as Craftsmen
• 414 work as Merchants
• 814 work as Service Workers
• 524 work as General Laborers
• 208 work as Skilled Laborers
• 761 work as Civil Servants
• 480 work in Cottage Industries
• 281 work as Artists
• 269 work in Produce Industries

7892 of Goldmire Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 833 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Goldmire Castle has been cursed with some blight that makes life difficult, albeit not impossible. An offended sorcerer's vengeful Working, an outraged god's wrath, a local distortion of the Legacy, or a simple history of bad feng shui in the area may have brought the curse about. I(devise not only the curse, but the reason why the locals haven't left for better lands).

Due to a magical anomaly, Goldmire Castle is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of slew a dragon and brought its hoard to Goldmire Castle, where it was shared with all. Goldmire Castle's militia's elite squad is named after .

History