Wylye Castle

Wylye Castle (/wylye/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small City located in the Seóvmbaw̄ä Provence of the Hobben.

The name Wylye Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Wylye Castle was founded by Giant Flies Yeakel, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Wylye Castle has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Wylye Castle receives an average of 273 cm/y (107 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Wylye Castle covers an area of nearly 15 km² (6 mi²), and an average elevation of 2002 m (6568 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Wylye Castle was founded durring the late 16th century in fall of the year 1476, by Giant Flies Yeakel. The establishment of Wylye 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.

Wylye Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Wylye 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.

Wylye Castle is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of spacious carved bedrock streets which form octogonal 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 sits comfortably behind a palisade wall complete with a timber gatehouse and battlments. The city's timber-based walls are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Wylye Castle has the unmistakable air of a city on its last legs. Everything is a bit slipshod and ramshackle. Everyone is at work, or drinking. No one has anything in their eyes other than fear and despair. Whatever industry once fueled Wylye Castle ’s existence has dried up and the city is drifting down the stream of history as it dries up. Likely due to this, Wylye Castle 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 have homes. One cannot help but wonder what Wylye Castle was like during the glorydays.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Wylye 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.

Wylye 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.

Wylye 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.

Wylye 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.

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

Wylye Castle possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Wylye 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 Wylye Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Wylye 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.

Wylye 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.

Wylye 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

Wylye Castle is home to a distinct subculture, who are either the majority here or have the dominant positions in the community. Architecture, local laws, and social customs are all tuned to suit them, and they may not be particularly forgiving or friendly to the major culture of the region. Communities that are not outright independent usually make an arm's-length submission to a local lord.

Wylye Castle's garrison 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, winter is recurring in Wylye Castle.

The Mud Elemental, Medium near Wylye Castle are known to be quite timid.

Wylye Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Abjuration energies of tier 3 via 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.

Wylye Castle Census Data: Year 2000

1305 of Wylye Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 74 work in Agriculture
• 286 work as Craftsmen
• 109 work as Merchants
• 210 work as Service Workers
• 135 work as General Laborers
• 50 work as Skilled Laborers
• 184 work as Civil Servants
• 117 work in Cottage Industries
• 70 work as Artists
• 70 work in Produce Industries

2281 of Wylye Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 73 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a most peculiar disaster struck Wylye Castle, causing great chunks of ice to fall from the sky. Wylye Castle lost 130 people, 114 livestock, and 36 buildings in the disaster.. The ice rain is generally remembered as the Doom Rain.

History