Adur Castle

Adur Castle (/adur/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Níníy Dutchy, Dāmêvr Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Adur Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Adur Castle was founded by Tshêyeshë O'Dell, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Adur Castle has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 16°C (60°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 15°C (59°F). Adur Castle receives an average of 235 cm/y (92 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Adur Castle covers an area of nearly 58 km² (23 mi²), and an average elevation of 1202 m (3943 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Adur Castle was founded durring the early 12th century in summer of the year 1101, by Tshêyeshë O'Dell. The establishment of Adur Castle was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Adur Castle's construction back out of the project. Tshêyeshë O'Dell pushed on reguardles, and Adur Castle was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

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

Adur Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of premissive canals streets which form a diagonal shaped 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 city has a set of well fortified walls, with gatehouses, watch towers, battlments, and even a moat, which are fashioned from stone and timber. Adur Castle's walls are, howeaver, fashioned from stone and timber. While unorthadox, the design looks to be functional to a reasonable degree. With luck, the untested design will remain untested for years to come. The unusual though effective defenses has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

Adur Castle is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

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

Adur Castle has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Adur 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. Adur Castle's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

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

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

Adur Castle 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.

Adur 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 Adur Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

Adur 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.

Adur Castle's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its fluid and florid elaborate style, comprising ornate, asymmetric designs and pastel shades. It is often considered to be a playful, light style, which made exuberant use of curves and emphasized subtle asymmetry in the general shape of its structures. Walls, ceilings and moldings are decorated with numerous interlacing of curves and counter-curves based on the shapes of ‘C’ and ‘S’, along with shell forms and other naturalistic shapes.

In Adur Castle the milk never sours.

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

Adur Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves square dance to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 1 via throat singing.

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.

Adur Castle Census Data: Year 2000

5219 of Adur Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 296 work in Agriculture
• 1179 work as Craftsmen
• 424 work as Merchants
• 768 work as Service Workers
• 549 work as General Laborers
• 212 work as Skilled Laborers
• 776 work as Civil Servants
• 458 work in Cottage Industries
• 287 work as Artists
• 270 work in Produce Industries

8276 of Adur Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 417 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Adur Castle is known for its unusual rock formations.

POI

History

The the a bow of Charm, an a bow imbued with potent amounts of Charm energies was created in Adur Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History