Greasby Castle

Greasby Castle (/greasby/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in Butterview Dutchy, Odwea Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Greasby Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Greasby Castle was founded by Haw̋ńrmé Sēr 'Femme Carmen' Joīkīkī Vúchīkī Mp̪f̄ Coffin, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Greasby Castle has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 7°C (44°F). Greasby Castle receives an average of 154 cm/y (60 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Greasby Castle covers an area of nearly 26 km² (10 mi²), and an average elevation of 4690 m (15387 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Greasby Castle was founded durring the late 12th century in winter of the year 1084, by Haw̋ńrmé Sēr 'Femme Carmen' Joīkīkī Vúchīkī Mp̪f̄ Coffin. The establishment of Greasby Castle suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Greasby Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Greasby Castle 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.

Greasby Castle is was constructed arround several broad flagstone 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 city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Greasby Castle's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. The city's budget oriented have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the city.

Greasby Castle has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Greasby Castle’s streets. A look around Greasby Castle has something terribly wrong with it. It’s impossible to put one’s finger on, but something is horribly wrong. Maybe it’s the way fog blankets the ground, but only in the connors of places. Maybe it’s the vermin scutteling between shadows in the corner of your eyes. Perhaps it’s the overcast sky which seemed to creep out of nowhere, or the distant howling of wolves. Maybe it’s everything together. Regardless, you do not feel it would be wise to remain in Greasby Castle long.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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.

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

Greasby 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 City. Greasby Castle's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

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

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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 Greasby Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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.

Greasby 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

Greasby Castle's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used which employed abundant symbolic geometry, using pure forms such as the circle and square, and plans are based on often symmetrical layouts featuring rectangular courtyards and halls. These structures were is decorated with carved stone or stucco reliefs and made use of colorful stone mosaics..

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is recurring in Greasby Castle.

The Mold, Slime near Greasby Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Greasby Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves performance art to channel Mysticism 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.

Greasby Castle Census Data: Year 2000

2377 of Greasby Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 134 work in Agriculture
• 547 work as Craftsmen
• 188 work as Merchants
• 354 work as Service Workers
• 235 work as General Laborers
• 95 work as Skilled Laborers
• 354 work as Civil Servants
• 214 work in Cottage Industries
• 131 work as Artists
• 125 work in Produce Industries

3837 of Greasby Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 192 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Greasby Castle is a major trade hub, connecting several important cities or resource production areas. It’s probably at an important river juncture, ancient crossroads, or occupying the only safe path through some perilous wilderness. Its position may be important enough that it can survive on trade alone, despite being unable to feed itself with the surrounding land. Such hubs are usually heavily garrisoned by the lord who profits from their tariffs and taxes.

Greasby Castle is known for its well built pedestrian paths, which include foot bridges to cross the main street at several high-traffic areas.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century was ravaged by a deadly sickness. was the epicenter of the disaster, but Greasby Castle suffered the most. Greasby Castle lost 194 people, 399 livestock, and 89 buildings in the disaster.. The disaster is spoken of in hushed whispers as the Wrath of Mourning.

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