Kemp Castle

Kemp Castle (/kɛmp/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Gumada Provence of the Hobben.

The name Kemp Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Kemp Castle was founded by Onshi Hood, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Kemp Castle has a yearly average temperature of 24°C (75°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 18°C (64°F). Kemp Castle receives an average of 276 cm/y (108 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Kemp Castle covers an area of nearly 86 km² (34 mi²), and an average elevation of 2430 m (7972 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kemp Castle was founded durring the late 12th century in summer of the year 1052, by Onshi Hood. The establishment of Kemp Castle suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Kemp Castle which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

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

Kemp Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of spacious flagstone streets which form a grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. 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. Kemp Castle's failry decent fortifications 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 city as needed.

Kemp 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 Kemp Castle’s streets. In spite of this, quite a few people can be seen reading and the city has an abundance of libraries. It’s quite clear the community values education.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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.

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

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

Kemp 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. Kemp Castle's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Kemp Castle 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.

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

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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 Kemp Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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.

Kemp 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

Kemp Castle's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

In Kemp Castle tiny harmless tornadoes plague the town.

The Thanatos Fey near Kemp Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Kemp Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Charm 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.

Kemp Castle Census Data: Year 2000

7793 of Kemp Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 427 work in Agriculture
• 1717 work as Craftsmen
• 624 work as Merchants
• 1168 work as Service Workers
• 790 work as General Laborers
• 315 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1208 work as Civil Servants
• 701 work in Cottage Industries
• 434 work as Artists
• 409 work in Produce Industries

12078 of Kemp Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 614 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kemp Castle's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

POI

History

A local has came up with a wonderful new idea 1 months ago; it may be a magical innovation, a new industrial process, a new agricultural product, a new use for what was thought to be ancient garbage, or some other very useful, profitable idea. Everyone around them is fighting for the chance to exploit this clever new plan.

The the a vest of Transmutation, an a vest imbued with notable amounts of Transmutation energies was created near Kemp Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History