Autumnabbey

Autumnabbey (/autumnabbey/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Lorhedge Dutchy, Tifia County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Autumnabbey is derived from the Sylvin language, as Autumnabbey was founded by Amlugleg Stroud, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Autumnabbey has a yearly average temperature of 24°C (75°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 20°C (68°F). Autumnabbey receives an average of 142 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Autumnabbey covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4238 m (13904 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Autumnabbey was founded durring the late 15th century in summer of the year 1391, by Amlugleg Stroud. The establishment of Autumnabbey suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Autumnabbey which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Autumnabbey was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Autumnabbey 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.

Autumnabbey is is constructed arround a semi-circular premissive paverstone mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The town resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Autumnabbey's robustly designed timber walls 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.

Right off the bat Autumnabbey 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

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

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

Autumnabbey 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.

Autumnabbey 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.

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

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

Autumnabbey 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

Autumnabbey's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Autumnabbey all of the cats speak in a dead language.

The Mud Elemental, Large near Autumnabbey are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Autumnabbey's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves orgies to channel Invocation energies of tier 3 via oath swearing.

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.

Autumnabbey Census Data: Year 2000

395 of Autumnabbey's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 85 work as Craftsmen
• 32 work as Merchants
• 66 work as Service Workers
• 38 work as General Laborers
• 13 work as Skilled Laborers
• 58 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 19 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

834 of Autumnabbey's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 51 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

POI

History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Autumnabbey is seriously plagued with raiders. One or more groups of persistent plunderers are hitting the community repeatedly, and they lack the necessary resources to fend them off or protect all their holdings.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century Mere Ithaca began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which devastated , killing every person and animal in its path which could not escape the cloud. Oddly, the plants of the region flourished in the years after the disaster. An estimated people, livestock, and buildings were lost to the disaster. The disaster is referred to as the Cursed Fates Wind.

History