Augton Castle

Augton Castle (/bleng/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Flowerbourne Dutchy, Luqian Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Augton Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Augton Castle was founded by Maegang Sales, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Augton Castle has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 6°C (42°F). Augton Castle receives an average of 188 cm/y (74 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Augton Castle covers an area of nearly 108 km² (43 mi²), and an average elevation of 2338 m (7670 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Augton Castle was founded durring the early 15th century in spring of the year 1402, by Maegang Sales. The establishment of Augton Castle suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Augton Castle which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Augton Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Augton Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Augton Castle is is constructed arround a series of narrow cobblestone mainstreets which form concentric circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to each other at varrious points. The city is in posession of a finaly crafted dwarvern style fortified fighting wall, completer with lower, middle, and upper battlments for use in sloped-fire defence stratagies, murder holes, and statues which may or may not be constructs, and, of course, MERTICULATIONSshortsizename is one of the wealthiest and politicaly connected settlments in the world.. The city's Ragnarock-era relics 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.

Right off the bat Augton Castle hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Augton 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.

Augton 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.

Augton 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.

Augton 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.

Augton 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.

Augton 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.

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

Augton Castle has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Augton 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. Augton Castle's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Augton 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.

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

Augton 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.

Augton 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 Augton Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Augton 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.

Augton 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.

Augton 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

Augton Castle'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 long in Augton Castle.

The Raven Swarm near Augton Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Augton Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves orgies to channel Transmutation energies of tier 1 via divine sermons.

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.

Augton Castle Census Data: Year 2000

9780 of Augton Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 531 work in Agriculture
• 2136 work as Craftsmen
• 768 work as Merchants
• 1504 work as Service Workers
• 987 work as General Laborers
• 400 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1567 work as Civil Servants
• 858 work in Cottage Industries
• 528 work as Artists
• 501 work in Produce Industries

14785 of Augton Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1023 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Augton Castle 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.

The roads leading into Augton Castle possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with wealth for a year and a day. One of Augton Castle's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History