Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge (/knightsbridge/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Băbověkhka Zone, Tefea County, within the Norwick Principality.

The name Knightsbridge is derived from the Sylvin language, as Knightsbridge was founded by Ga̋ń Vú̄b̪f̄ 'Melissa Chuck Cog' Gō̄sh Cú̄w̄b Ya̋nvé̄sh Dobson, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Knightsbridge has a yearly average temperature of 20°C (68°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 12°C (53°F). Knightsbridge receives an average of 285 cm/y (112 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Knightsbridge covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 1848 m (6062 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Knightsbridge was founded durring the early 17th century in early fall of the year 1605, by Ga̋ń Vú̄b̪f̄ 'Melissa Chuck Cog' Gō̄sh Cú̄w̄b Ya̋nvé̄sh Dobson. The establishment of Knightsbridge was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Ga̋ń Vú̄b̪f̄ 'Melissa Chuck Cog' Gō̄sh Cú̄w̄b Ya̋nvé̄sh Dobson electing to pay people to resettle in Knightsbridge.

Knightsbridge was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Knightsbridge is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature timber and earth construction, with most buildigns first floors resembling mounds of earth, with subsequent floors appearing as elaborate log cabins, with each building forming a tiered pyramid of sorts fromed from the stack of rectangular, peek roofed cabins. Most wooden bracing, support, and trim is carved with decorative knotwork, and the larger structures even feature painted trim which emphasises the knotwork.

Knightsbridge is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of spacious worn bedrock streets which form octogonal 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 rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. Knightsbridge's millitarily questionable 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 look around Knightsbridge seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Knightsbridge 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.

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

Knightsbridge 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.

Knightsbridge 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.

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

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

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

Knightsbridge 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

Knightsbridge's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Knightsbridge all of the cats speak in a dead language.

The Fly, Giant near Knightsbridge are known to be quite timid.

Knightsbridge's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 1 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Knightsbridge Census Data: Year 2000

318 of Knightsbridge's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 75 work as Craftsmen
• 22 work as Merchants
• 51 work as Service Workers
• 30 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 47 work as Civil Servants
• 28 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 18 work in Produce Industries

713 of Knightsbridge's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 31 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Knightsbridge is centered around a major pilgrimage site. This may be a religious location of importance to a major faith, or it may be a more secular institution that draws the traffic, like a famous academy or the remains of some wondrous ancient work. Considerable local tension likely exists over controlling the access to the site and maximizing the profits from foreign visitors.

Knightsbridge is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

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History

The the a Arming cap of Augury, an a Arming cap imbued with great amounts of Augury energies was created in Kle̜ I̽rbrëkkwë Ner by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History