Pymmes Castle

Pymmes Castle (/pɪmz/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Beachdeer Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Pymmes Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Pymmes Castle was founded by Gelë Tsîlë Hèshë Basford, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Pymmes Castle has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 1°C (33°F). Pymmes Castle receives an average of 214 cm/y (84 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Pymmes Castle covers an area of nearly 189 km² (75 mi²), and an average elevation of 2130 m (6988 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Pymmes Castle was founded durring the late 11th century, by Gelë Tsîlë Hèshë Basford. The establishment of Pymmes Castle suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Pymmes Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Pymmes Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Pymmes Castle is buildings folow an organic layout of spacious split-log ties streets whihch gives the city a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The city is defended by arcane means. It's hard to spot at first, but there's a tell tell shimmer in the air arround Pymmes Castle, and you can spot the ocasional warding glyph carved into a rock or tree all arround town. These mystical defences are ancient, unknowable, and unassailable by current means... Assuming everything is in working order. Otherwise, the wards are little more than a deathtrap. Unfortuantly, these Relic of the World That Was are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

A look around Pymmes Castle shows Pymmes Castle is little more than a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Birbes can be seen changing hands openly, such that it must be customary to do so and must have been for a long time. The locals have no fear, no annoyance at the state of things, it simply is.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

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

Pymmes Castle has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Pymmes 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. Pymmes Castle's grid is powered by an arcane means.

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

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

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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 Pymmes Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes 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.

Pymmes Castle is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

Two or more groups of citizens within Pymmes Castle hate each other. Their neighbors or the local law have kept things from too-overt violence, but members of the groups will constantly interfere with their rivals and cause whatever misery they can get away with. This hate may spring from recent events, or it may be an inherited spite from old wrongs.

Pymmes Castle's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is skipped in Pymmes Castle.

The Herd Animal, Elk (Giant) near Pymmes Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Pymmes Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Invocation energies of tier 2 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.

Pymmes Castle Census Data: Year 2000

16952 of Pymmes Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 920 work in Agriculture
• 3858 work as Craftsmen
• 1378 work as Merchants
• 2663 work as Service Workers
• 1753 work as General Laborers
• 692 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2347 work as Civil Servants
• 1491 work in Cottage Industries
• 928 work as Artists
• 922 work in Produce Industries

25167 of Pymmes Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2688 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Pymmes Castle is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of secured a clean water supply for . One of Pymmes Castle's festivals remembers the hero.

History