Wampool Citidel

Wampool Citidel (/wampool/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Violetdell Dutchy, Ipoulan Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Wampool Citidel is derived from the Sylvin language, as Wampool Citidel was founded by Buddug Bower, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Wampool Citidel has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°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 11°C (51°F). Wampool Citidel receives an average of 213 cm/y (83 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Wampool Citidel covers an area of nearly 113 km² (45 mi²), and an average elevation of 3766 m (12355 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Wampool Citidel was founded durring the early 16th century in fall of the year 1531, by Buddug Bower. The establishment of Wampool Citidel suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Wampool Citidel which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Wampool Citidel was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel is buildings are arranged arround a network of spacious paverstone streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city has a fortified albit thin brick wall. The wall has most of the feeatures of a typical castle wall, just on a much smaller scale and and budget. Notably brick isn't a particuarly soild choice for resisting siege weapons. Wampool Citidel's wall wouldn't hinder a proper army, but it is more than sufishent for bandits and other small marauding groups. The city's monster and outlaw focused fortifications 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.

Right off the bat Wampool Citidel 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. Precisely how it has gained its wealth is a mystery. Wampool Citidel is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a city, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Wampool Citidel has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel 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.

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

Wampool Citidel has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Wampool Citidel 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. Wampool Citidel's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Wampool Citidel possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

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

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel 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 Wampool Citidel's natural decorations nor waterways.

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel 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.

Wampool Citidel 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

Wampool Citidel's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by vertical proportions, pointed arches, external buttressing, and asymmetry in the general shape of its buildings. The decorative features of the style were key, consisting of large arched windows, pointed arches, vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses, and sculptures integrated into the structure itself. Occasionally, for very important buildings, an array of sculptures or one colossal sculpture might replace the entirety of the entrance to said building.

In Wampool Citidel every night at precisely midnight every structure in town is engulfed by sailors fire until the end of the witching hour.

The Walking Stick, Giant near Wampool Citidel are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Wampool Citidel's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves gestures to channel Abjuration 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.

Wampool Citidel Census Data: Year 2000

10014 of Wampool Citidel's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 580 work in Agriculture
• 2252 work as Craftsmen
• 841 work as Merchants
• 1482 work as Service Workers
• 1066 work as General Laborers
• 415 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1406 work as Civil Servants
• 890 work in Cottage Industries
• 551 work as Artists
• 531 work in Produce Industries

16141 of Wampool Citidel's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 808 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

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History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Wampool Citidel is seriously plagued with raiders. One or more groups of persistent plunderers are hitting the community repeatedly, and they lack the necessary resources to fend them off or protect all their holdings.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with wealth for a year and a day. One of Wampool Citidel's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History