Richlyn

Richlyn (/richlyn/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Juqíhgtíhrāv County, Yehan Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Richlyn is derived from the Sylvin language, as Richlyn was founded by Kthil Clay Edwards, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Richlyn has a yearly average temperature of 18°C (64°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 11°C (51°F). Richlyn receives an average of 134 cm/y (52 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Richlyn covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4474 m (14678 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Richlyn was founded durring the late 14th century in spring of the year 1282, by Kthil Clay Edwards. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Kthil Clay Edwards.

Richlyn was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Richlyn is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Richlyn is buildings are speckled and packed arround crampt cobblestone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a town. The town sits comfortably behind a palisade wall complete with a timber gatehouse and battlments. The timber-based walls has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

A look around Richlyn gives you an uneasy feeling. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring just long enough for it to be uncomfortable. This all rests atop the unmistakable impression the town is one of the strictest places imaginable. Everyone’s actions are clearly directed by laws they keep in heart and mind at all times. Orderly byond order is a phrase which Richlyn brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Richlyn 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.

Richlyn 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.

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

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

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

Richlyn 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

Richlyn'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, summer is long in Richlyn.

The Fox, Fading near Richlyn are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Richlyn's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves reenactments to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 3 via singing.

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.

Richlyn Census Data: Year 2000

351 of Richlyn's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 24 work in Agriculture
• 81 work as Craftsmen
• 25 work as Merchants
• 59 work as Service Workers
• 34 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 48 work as Civil Servants
• 33 work in Cottage Industries
• 18 work as Artists
• 18 work in Produce Industries

759 of Richlyn's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 70 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Some important ruler or leading figure resides in the community. This may be the seat of a regional lord, or it could be the traditional residence of a high priest, great magus, merchant house, or other wielder of influence. The community itself may or may not be under their direct control, but the wishes of the august figure must be acknowledged by the locals.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century heavy spring rains following an uncharacteristically dry year and a minor earthquake resulted in the collapse of the west side of Woe Hill. the landslide struck Richlyn, and devastated the community. 235 people, 343 livestock, and 58 buildings were lost to the calamity. The disaster is recorded in history as Woe's Fall.

History