Ock Castle

Ock Castle (/ock/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in Roseoak Dutchy, Duytea Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Ock Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Ock Castle was founded by Ênka Pun, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Ock Castle has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 3°C (37°F). Ock Castle receives an average of 265 cm/y (104 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ock Castle covers an area of nearly 27 km² (10 mi²), and an average elevation of 3466 m (11371 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ock Castle was founded durring the late 16th century in summer of the year 1554, by Ênka Pun. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Ock Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ock Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Ock Castle is is constructed arround a semi-circular spacious packed earth mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. 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. Ock 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.

Ock Castle is a bustling hive of activity. Everyone moves at nothing short of a jog, each convocation is a mile a minute, and there’s dedicated lanes for riding through town in the center of each street. The locals all appear to be not merely occupied, but in a true hurry for everything from drinking a pint of ale to their daily work.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Ock 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.

Ock 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.

Ock 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.

Ock 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.

Ock 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.

Ock 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.

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

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

Ock 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.

Ock 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 Ock Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ock 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.

Ock 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.

Ock 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

Ock Castle's chapel 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 Ock Castle rainbows form quite often above the City.

The Thoqqua near Ock Castle are known to be quite timid.

Ock Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves square dance to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 1 via oath swearing.

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.

Ock Castle Census Data: Year 2000

2390 of Ock Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 135 work in Agriculture
• 531 work as Craftsmen
• 195 work as Merchants
• 361 work as Service Workers
• 243 work as General Laborers
• 93 work as Skilled Laborers
• 350 work as Civil Servants
• 223 work in Cottage Industries
• 131 work as Artists
• 128 work in Produce Industries

3567 of Ock Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 517 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ock Castle produces some wonderful cultural artifact or trains famous artists. The product might be some exceptional cloth, or artistic luxury good, or the scholarly fruits of a famous academy. Trained artists might be students of a particular school, or the apprentices of the current masters of a long artistic tradition who dwell here.

Ock Castle's roads were poorly made when first laid. Rather than repairing them correctly, a series of new roads was laid atop the old, leading to the streets of modern Ock Castle suffering from potholes, cracking, and even sinkholes. The locals often repair the road by putting down wooden decking.

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History

The the a Arming cap of Chronomancy, an a Arming cap imbued with potent amounts of Chronomancy energies was created near Ock Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History