Aller Castle

Aller Castle (/ˈɔlər/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Beachmaple Dutchy, Ipoulan Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Aller Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Aller Castle was founded by Khnegmas Stallybrass, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Aller Castle has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Aller Castle receives an average of 231 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Aller Castle covers an area of nearly 78 km² (31 mi²), and an average elevation of 2160 m (7086 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Aller Castle was founded durring the early 13th century in summer of the year 1243, by Khnegmas Stallybrass. The establishment of Aller Castle was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Khnegmas Stallybrass electing to pay people to resettle in Aller Castle.

Aller Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Aller Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber and earth construction, with most buildigns first floors resembling mounds of earth, with subsequent floors appearing as elaborate log cabins, with each building forming a tiered pyramid of sorts fromed from the stack of rectangular, peek roofed cabins. Most wooden bracing, support, and trim is carved with decorative knotwork, and the larger structures even feature painted trim which emphasises the knotwork.

Aller Castle is was constructed arround several premissive packed earth mainstreets which cross one another at certain axies, with smaller streets branching off of them to premit acess to the many buildings deeper into the road network. The overall fashion is remenessent of a circulatory system, or other organic construct, and is quite effishent in its design. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Aller Castle's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. Aller Castle's budget oriented has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

Aller 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 Aller Castle ’s existence has dried up and the city is drifting down the stream of history as it dries up. Even with that as it is, everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or much of both. The town should be gone, not dying. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring just long enough for it to be uncomfortable.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Aller 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.

Aller 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.

Aller 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.

Aller 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.

Aller 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.

Aller 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.

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

Aller Castle has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Aller 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. Aller Castle's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Aller Castle 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.

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

Aller Castle 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.

Aller 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 Aller Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Aller 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.

Aller 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.

Aller 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

Aller Castle's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is famous for its stately symmetry, classical elements, and grand appearance. Columns and pillars, such as Corinthian columns, are often seen supporting open structures or porticos. Symmetry is an important feature of this style, with each half of a building mirroring the other. Domed ceilings and windows grace these buildings, with everything placed in a mathematical arrangement.

In Aller Castle most nights are accompanied by colorful ribbons of light in the sky.

The Pudding, Blood near Aller Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Aller Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves ritual combat to channel Invocation energies of tier 3 via recitation of scripture.

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.

Aller Castle Census Data: Year 2000

6940 of Aller Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 369 work in Agriculture
• 1568 work as Craftsmen
• 588 work as Merchants
• 1077 work as Service Workers
• 705 work as General Laborers
• 287 work as Skilled Laborers
• 947 work as Civil Servants
• 648 work in Cottage Industries
• 379 work as Artists
• 372 work in Produce Industries

10970 of Aller Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 553 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Aller Castle is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

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History

Aller Castle used to be more prosperous, but something happened relatively long ago that left it a shrunken shadow of its former self. If the settlement is prosperous, the locals often lament how much more they could have had. If the settlement is not prosperous, the locals blame their ill fortunes on that event. Reminders of this better time can be found in many places within Aller Castle.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Aller Castle was attacked by members of a peasant revolt. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Aller Castle lost 296 people, 162 livestock, and 85 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 191, when members of Aller Castle's militia enacted an operation to capture a particular fortification intact. The operation was complicated by at least some of the intelligence related to the operation was incorrect. The conflict ended with a last stand against the enemy until a particular event occurred, which ended in victory for Aller Castle's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Aller Castle's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History