Tavy Castle

Tavy Castle (/ˈteɪvi/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Belness Dutchy, Nuea Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Tavy Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Tavy Castle was founded by H́i̊th Sugrue, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Tavy Castle has a yearly average temperature of 17°C (62°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 8°C (46°F). Tavy Castle receives an average of 160 cm/y (62 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Tavy Castle covers an area of nearly 133 km² (53 mi²), and an average elevation of 5278 m (17316 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Tavy Castle was founded durring the early 16th century in winter of the year 1519, by H́i̊th Sugrue. The establishment of Tavy 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.

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

Tavy Castle is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of restrictive cobblestone streets which form triangular 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 has a defencive wall made from querried stone. The wall is equipped with a full set of battlments but the nature of its construction methodology leaves it somewhat vulnerable to siege equipment. That said, the city is well defended against anything short of an army. The city's cost-cutting-focused defences have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the city.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Tavy Castle, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same god, all preforming the same rituals to bless and anoint building,s streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holysymbols is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This city certainly loves its god.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

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

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

Tavy 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. Tavy Castle's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

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

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

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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 Tavy Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

Tavy 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.

Cultural Notes

The locals are in a state of despair and dull apathy. They've lost the things that used to give them pride and hope, with the best among them carrying on out of habitual duty and the worst giving ready hands to shameful deeds and ignoble acts. No one really believes the future can be better, and most seek only to satisfy immediate appetites.

Tavy Castle's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its buildings being predominantly formed through the combination of basic geometric shapes. However, it shown in the detailing given to the structures such as its characteristic tall columns, intricate detail, symmetry, harmony, and balance in their designs to an astonishing degree of precision. Decorative elements for the buildings tended to be built into the structure itself, making great use of fluting, frescoes, inlays, and embossing.

In Tavy Castle leaves and flower petals never touch the ground.

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

Tavy Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves performance art to channel Invocation energies of tier 3 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.

Tavy Castle Census Data: Year 2000

11823 of Tavy Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 672 work in Agriculture
• 2618 work as Craftsmen
• 975 work as Merchants
• 1848 work as Service Workers
• 1210 work as General Laborers
• 477 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1725 work as Civil Servants
• 1033 work in Cottage Industries
• 650 work as Artists
• 615 work in Produce Industries

18520 of Tavy Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 938 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century Mere Bellandur began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which brought great calamity to the entire nation, killing every person and animal in its path which could not escape the cloud. Oddly, the plants of the region flourished in the years after the disaster. The disaster brought an end to people, livestock, and buildings. The disaster is referred to as the Grieving Wind.

History