Rossop

Rossop (/rossop/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Lolqazgehv Hold, Ipoulan Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Rossop is derived from the Sylvin language, as Rossop was founded by Êyê Wardle Ashfield, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Rossop has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Rossop receives an average of 268 cm/y (105 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Rossop covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 378 m (1240 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Rossop was founded durring the late 17th century in early summer of the year 1574, by Êyê Wardle Ashfield. The establishment of Rossop was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Êyê Wardle Ashfield electing to pay people to resettle in Rossop.

Rossop was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Rossop is no diffrent. The town'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.

Rossop is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of spacious worn bedrock streets which form hexical 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 the absurdity that is a thick, timber braced, wall made of clay bricks. While visualy impressive and certainly an astetic, Rossop's wall provides no actual defence against siege equipment due to the choice of its cosntruction materials. Even nonexperts can tell the town is trying to impress rather than defend with its walls, towers, and gatehouses. Though admittedly, they do look nice... To primitive tribals who have never seen fortifications before. Rossop's political statment focused walls has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

Your first impression of Rossop proves to be right on the money. This town is where the rebels chose to settle. Fashion trends are quite simply the opposite of what’s popular in the other nearby communities. THis trend extends everywhere. Things that should be black are white, what would normally be square is organically curved, and what is typically unthinkable for polite society is more than welcome in this public square. Up to the logical limits, of course. There’s no flaying someone alive to eat their skin going on, but the women are dressed a little immodestly, the men are a little more emotional, and the food is all overly complex and terrible.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Rossop 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.

Rossop 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.

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

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

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

Rossop 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

Rossop's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its fluid and florid elaborate style, comprising ornate, asymmetric designs and pastel shades. It is often considered to be a playful, light style, which made exuberant use of curves and emphasized subtle asymmetry in the general shape of its structures. Walls, ceilings and moldings are decorated with numerous interlacing of curves and counter-curves based on the shapes of ‘C’ and ‘S’, along with shell forms and other naturalistic shapes.

In Rossop there are unidentifiable people in the fog, but it seems to be okay.

The Sagari near Rossop are known to be quite timid.

Rossop's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves creating small tokens to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 3 via throat chanting.

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.

Rossop Census Data: Year 2000

339 of Rossop's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 22 work in Agriculture
• 75 work as Craftsmen
• 24 work as Merchants
• 57 work as Service Workers
• 33 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 48 work as Civil Servants
• 33 work in Cottage Industries
• 16 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

731 of Rossop's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 33 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Rossop makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.

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History

Rossop used to be much richer, but something happened in the last (25664 % 6)+1 years to crush its source of prosperity. Different factions of the community might be trying to grasp at the remaining dregs of wealth, others might try to restart the failed industry, and some might look for a new livelihood. Any group or entity thought responsible for the collapse is likely to be treated very harshly, and some locals might find profit in shifting the blame to their enemies.

The the a gorget of Truename Magic, an a gorget imbued with great amounts of Truename Magic energies was created in Rosscrook by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History