Watchway

Watchway (/watchway / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Snowbourne Dutchy, Hesan County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Watchway is derived from the Sylvin language, as Watchway was founded by Èlegfê Padden, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Watchway has a yearly average temperature of 26°C (78°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 31°C (87°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 22°C (71°F). Watchway receives an average of 144 cm/y (56 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Watchway covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 3072 m (10078 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Watchway was founded durring the early 12th century in spring of the year 1100, by Èlegfê Padden. The establishment of Watchway suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Watchway which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Watchway was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Watchway is no diffrent. The town'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.

Watchway is buildings are located arround a single narrow flagstone mainstreet which forms a clockwise spiral to give the town a over all circular shape. The town is protected by a renforced stone fence which sits atop earthwork defences, for some of the best inexpencive defences a town of Watchway 's size could have. Watchway 's well-designed, yet cheep are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Watchway , 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 town certainly loves its god.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Watchway 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.

Watchway 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.

Watchway 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.

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

Watchway 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 Town. Watchway 's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Watchway has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Watchway 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.

Cultural Notes

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Watchway 's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is skipped in Watchway .

The Half-Celestial Unicorn near Watchway are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Watchway 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sex to channel Necromancy energies of tier 2 via throat chanting.

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.

Watchway Census Data: Year 2000

335 of Watchway 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 22 work in Agriculture
• 75 work as Craftsmen
• 24 work as Merchants
• 57 work as Service Workers
• 33 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 47 work as Civil Servants
• 32 work in Cottage Industries
• 17 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

677 of Watchway 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 87 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Watchway is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century Watchway was struck by unseasonably warm weather, causing a sweltering heat to smouther the land for 7 days. Watchway lost 166 people and 264 livestock in the disaster.. The deadly heat is remembered by most as the Loss's Flame.

History