Keyninch

Keyninch (/keyninch / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Gûhyâ Hûvi Dutchy, Dāmêvr Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Keyninch is derived from the Sylvin language, as Keyninch was founded by Grîd Rogers, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Keyninch has a yearly average temperature of 14°C (57°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 14°C (57°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Keyninch receives an average of 223 cm/y (87 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Keyninch covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 334 m (1095 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Keyninch was founded durring the late 13th century in summer of the year 1167, by Grîd Rogers. The establishment of Keyninch was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Grîd Rogers electing to pay people to resettle in Keyninch .

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

Keyninch is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of crampt packed earth streets which form triangular paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The town posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Keyninch weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. Astonishigly, the budget focused millitary grade defenses are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

Your first impression of Keyninch proves to be right on the money. This town is where the rebels chose to settle. Fashion trends are quite simply the opposite of what’s popular in the other nearby communities. THis trend extends everywhere. Things that should be black are white, what would normally be square is organically curved, and what is typically unthinkable for polite society is more than welcome in this public square. Up to the logical limits, of course. There’s no flaying someone alive to eat their skin going on, but the women are dressed a little immodestly, the men are a little more emotional, and the food is all overly complex and terrible.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Keyninch 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.

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

Keyninch 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.

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

Keyninch possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Keyninch has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Keyninch 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.

Cultural Notes

Keyninch has a long tradition of martial expertise. This may be a crisply-organized history of skilled native levies, or it may be a natural belligerence in the people that leaves them familiar with bloodshed. While their neighbors and liege doubtless respect their talents, this very aptitude might make them more willing to turn to steel than prudence would advise.

Keyninch 's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is short in Keyninch .

The Snake, Venomous near Keyninch are known to be quite timid.

Keyninch 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves gestures to channel Necromancy energies of tier 3 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Keyninch Census Data: Year 2000

331 of Keyninch 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 24 work in Agriculture
• 73 work as Craftsmen
• 24 work as Merchants
• 53 work as Service Workers
• 32 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 48 work as Civil Servants
• 30 work in Cottage Industries
• 16 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

769 of Keyninch 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 33 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Keyninch was attacked by a renegade group of the army. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Keyninch lost 200 people, 111 livestock, and 67 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 76, when members of Keyninch 's militia enacted an operation to break a siege of a particular vault. The operation was complicated by one of the key objectives in the operation requiring sticking to a very strict and short time table. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in defeat for Keyninch 's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Keyninch 's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History