Stanham Castle

Stanham Castle (/stanham/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Violetdell Dutchy, Ipoulan Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Stanham Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Stanham Castle was founded by Zairduk Parr, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Stanham Castle has a yearly average temperature of 18°C (64°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 10°C (50°F). Stanham Castle receives an average of 279 cm/y (109 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Stanham Castle covers an area of nearly 167 km² (66 mi²), and an average elevation of 1592 m (5223 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Stanham Castle was founded durring the early 13th century in spring of the year 1225, by Zairduk Parr. 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 Zairduk Parr.

Stanham Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Stanham Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Stanham Castle is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of broad packed earth 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 city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Stanham Castle's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. The budget oriented have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Right off the bat Stanham Castle hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. The influx of wealth has brought with it an influx of relaxation. Everywhere you look people are enjoying their prosperity in a slow, casual, and deliberate manner. There’s no rush for anything anywhere you look.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

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

Stanham Castle has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

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

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

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

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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 Stanham Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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.

Stanham 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

Stanham Castle's bank 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, summer is skipped in Stanham Castle.

The Lizard near Stanham Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Stanham Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves reenactments to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 2 via divine sermons.

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.

Stanham Castle Census Data: Year 2000

14667 of Stanham Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 802 work in Agriculture
• 3285 work as Craftsmen
• 1209 work as Merchants
• 2213 work as Service Workers
• 1541 work as General Laborers
• 611 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2079 work as Civil Servants
• 1316 work in Cottage Industries
• 802 work as Artists
• 809 work in Produce Industries

23788 of Stanham Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 784 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Stanham Castle produces something unique, a good or service that cannot be had anywhere else in the kingdom. This may be due to some unique resource found only there, or some carefully-guarded craft, or it may be a special service that can only be provided by the locals, who are somehow unique in their forms or abilities.

POI

History

The the a Mail coif of Charm, an a Mail coif imbued with great amounts of Charm energies was created in Spstàjodù Gob Gíhm by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History