Hammer Castle

Hammer Castle (/ˈhæmər/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Beachwind Dutchy, Emzada Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Hammer Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Hammer Castle was founded by Breli Taylor, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Hammer Castle has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°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 6°C (42°F). Hammer Castle receives an average of 134 cm/y (52 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Hammer Castle covers an area of nearly 71 km² (28 mi²), and an average elevation of 7950 m (-16866 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Hammer Castle was founded durring the late 11th century, by Breli Taylor. The establishment of Hammer Castle suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Hammer Castle which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Hammer Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Hammer 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.

Hammer Castle is buildings folow an organic layout of premissive baked earthen streets whihch gives the city a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The city posesses a fortified albit thin wall of querried stone. This wall posesses most of the features of a castle wall, though it is constructed from cheeper inferior stone. It would pose a minor chalange for an attacking army, though it's clear the wall's true purpose is to crush the hopes of bandits and marauders. Hammer Castle's failry decent fortifications are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

A quick look in any direction shows Hammer Castle 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

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

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

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

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

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.

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

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

Hammer 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. Hammer Castle's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

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

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

Hammer Castle has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Hammer 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 Hammer Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.

Hammer 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

Hammer Castle's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Hammer Castle 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 Rat near Hammer Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Hammer Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves sex to channel Conjuration energies of tier 3 via mimery.

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.

Hammer Castle Census Data: Year 2000

6343 of Hammer Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 363 work in Agriculture
• 1405 work as Craftsmen
• 514 work as Merchants
• 950 work as Service Workers
• 656 work as General Laborers
• 259 work as Skilled Laborers
• 943 work as Civil Servants
• 559 work in Cottage Industries
• 364 work as Artists
• 330 work in Produce Industries

9300 of Hammer Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1360 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Hammer Castle is home to some form of natural wonder. It could be a hot spring, or an especially enchanting glade, or a particular vista. Whatever it is, it's such a lovely attraction that Hammer Castle sees its fair share of tourists every year from all across Eyom. Consequently, its residents speak many languages at a functional level.

Hammer Castle is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Hammer Castle was attacked by members of a peasant revolt. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Hammer Castle lost 138 people, 383 livestock, and 51 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 149, when members of Hammer Castle's militia enacted an operation to destroy or capture a particular enemy war supplies. The operation was complicated by the enemy forces had far more numbers than estimated. The conflict ended with needing to break through the enemy's lines, which ended in victory for Hammer Castle's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Hammer Castle's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

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