Warmouth

Warmouth (/wɔː/ /maʊθ/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Linmead Dutchy, Dodbrid County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Warmouth is derived from the Sylvin language, as Warmouth was founded by Darla Austin, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Warmouth has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 21°C (69°F). Warmouth receives an average of 140 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Warmouth covers an area of nearly 336 km² (134 mi²), and an average elevation of 5318 m (17447 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Warmouth was founded durring the early 12th century in summer of the year 1149, by Darla Austin. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Warmouth was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Warmouth 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.

Warmouth is buildings are arranged arround a network of premissive paverstone streets which form a grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The riverside city resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The city's robustly designed timber walls 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.

A look around Warmouth gives you an uneasy feeling. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring jsut long enough for it to be uncomfortable. Beneath this surface, the people of Warmouth can be overheard having academic discussions, as well as talking about scholarly subjects in general. It’s quite clear Warmouth places a lot of value on education and being a learned individual.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Warmouth 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.

Warmouth 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.

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

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

Warmouth 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.

Warmouth 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.

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

Warmouth has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

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

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

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

Warmouth 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.

Warmouth 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 Warmouth's natural decorations nor waterways.

Warmouth 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.

Warmouth 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.

Warmouth 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.

Warmouth 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

Warmouth's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

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

The Snake, Venomous near Warmouth are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Warmouth's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves drinking to channel Abjuration energies of tier 1 via oratory performances.

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.

Warmouth Census Data: Year 2000

30135 of Warmouth's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1615 work in Agriculture
• 6611 work as Craftsmen
• 2479 work as Merchants
• 4759 work as Service Workers
• 3098 work as General Laborers
• 1233 work as Skilled Laborers
• 4205 work as Civil Servants
• 2868 work in Cottage Industries
• 1682 work as Artists
• 1585 work in Produce Industries

43705 of Warmouth's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 5557 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Warmouth has a conflict with a neighboring community. This usually isn't part of a larger war, but is instead a personal animosity between them. It may be the community has suffered at their enemy's hands, or they may have been the ones applying the suffering. Constant low-level skirmishes and trouble making go on between the two.

Due to a magical anomaly, Warmouth 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

The the a war pick of Transmutation, an a war pick imbued with notable amounts of Transmutation energies was created in Warmouth by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History