Salmons Castle

Salmons Castle (/ˈsæmənz/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Lightfield Dutchy, Ipoulan Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Salmons Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Salmons Castle was founded by Raw̄sh Mërmpf̄ 'Elodie Lisso' Yawmē̋ch Sēr Daw̄shīb Malyon, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Salmons Castle has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 15°C (59°F). Salmons Castle receives an average of 141 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Salmons Castle covers an area of nearly 256 km² (102 mi²), and an average elevation of 4120 m (13517 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Salmons Castle was founded durring the early 16th century in spring of the year 1549, by Raw̄sh Mërmpf̄ 'Elodie Lisso' Yawmē̋ch Sēr Daw̄shīb Malyon. The establishment of Salmons Castle was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Raw̄sh Mërmpf̄ 'Elodie Lisso' Yawmē̋ch Sēr Daw̄shīb Malyon electing to pay people to resettle in Salmons Castle.

Salmons Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Salmons Castle is no diffrent. The city'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.

Salmons Castle is buildings are built arround a single broad baked earthen mainstreet which forms a counterclockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. 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 Salmons 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. The Relic of the World That Was have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Salmons Castle is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. There’s a patern to the panic. It’s not easy to see, and no one quite agrees on what it is, but the locals know and operate under this pattern. It shapes everything they do, and you feel as if you’ve almost worked it out only for some small detail to devastate your theory every time you try and comprehend it.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

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

Salmons Castle has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Salmons 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. Salmons Castle's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

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

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

Salmons Castle has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Salmons 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 Salmons Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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.

Salmons 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

Salmons Castle's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is skipped in Salmons Castle.

The Buckawn near Salmons Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Salmons Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves square dance to channel Augury energies of tier 2 via recitation of scripture.

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.

Salmons Castle Census Data: Year 2000

22844 of Salmons Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1407 work in Agriculture
• 4955 work as Craftsmen
• 1868 work as Merchants
• 3454 work as Service Workers
• 2360 work as General Laborers
• 938 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3371 work as Civil Servants
• 1994 work in Cottage Industries
• 1289 work as Artists
• 1208 work in Produce Industries

35359 of Salmons Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1800 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Salmons Castle has access to some sort of functioning ancient infrastructure, whether it's an array of wall-mounted arcane energy projectors, running water, moving roadways, community-wide climate control, or some other inherited luxury. This infrastructure may be the result of a still-functional Working, or it could be the product of some venerable occult engine that's still operational, or it may be the fruit of the labors of some specially-designed organism or Blighted populace.

Salmons Castle is known for its well built pedestrian paths, which include foot bridges to cross the main street at several high-traffic areas.

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History

The the a shortbow of Truename Magic, an a shortbow imbued with potent amounts of Truename Magic energies was created in Sak Run Hadfow by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History