Lostock Castle

Lostock Castle (/lostock/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Belford Dutchy, Nefan Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Lostock Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Lostock Castle was founded by Chag Beetles Harsent, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Lostock Castle has a yearly average temperature of 13°C (55°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 13°C (55°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Lostock Castle receives an average of 263 cm/y (103 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the brutaly long winter months. Lostock Castle covers an area of nearly 72 km² (28 mi²), and an average elevation of 2178 m (7145 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Lostock Castle was founded durring the late 16th century in summer of the year 1498, by Chag Beetles Harsent. The establishment of Lostock Castle was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Lostock Castle's construction back out of the project. Chag Beetles Harsent pushed on reguardles, and Lostock Castle was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Lostock Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Lostock 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.

Lostock Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of narrow 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 is the proud owner of a proper castle-style stone wall complete with all of the trimmings. It has towers, a moat, gatehouses, drawbridges, and even merticulationsshortsizeleadershipname.. Unfortuantly, these perhapse unnessisarily well built defences are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Lostock Castle, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same god, all preforming the same rituals to bless and anoint building,s streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holysymbols is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This city certainly loves its god.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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.

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

Lostock Castle has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

Lostock 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. Lostock Castle's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

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

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

Lostock 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 Lostock Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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.

Lostock 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

Lostock Castle's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

In Lostock Castle there is no wind.

The Giant cockroach near Lostock Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Lostock Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves line dance to channel Transmutation energies of tier 1 via oratory performances.

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.

Lostock Castle Census Data: Year 2000

6377 of Lostock Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 354 work in Agriculture
• 1398 work as Craftsmen
• 519 work as Merchants
• 985 work as Service Workers
• 639 work as General Laborers
• 263 work as Skilled Laborers
• 969 work as Civil Servants
• 560 work in Cottage Industries
• 357 work as Artists
• 333 work in Produce Industries

9796 of Lostock Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1032 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Many of Lostock Castle’s structures date back to the ancient past and a long-vanished culture. They have unique architectural traits, perhaps being made of some strange substance or with uncanny qualities. The locals find them too useful or too durable to destroy, but the buildings often have unpleasant little surprises in their under-explored corners, and there may be greater structures still buried by long ages beneath Lostock Castle’s streets.

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History

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

History