Beult Castle

Beult Castle (/beult/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in Newfield Dutchy, Kobian Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Beult Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Beult Castle was founded by Dylan Shepherd-Barron, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Beult Castle has a yearly average temperature of 18°C (64°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 7°C (44°F). Beult Castle receives an average of 259 cm/y (101 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Beult Castle covers an area of nearly 47 km² (18 mi²), and an average elevation of 976 m (3202 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Beult Castle was founded durring the late 17th century in late fall of the year 1582, by Dylan Shepherd-Barron. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Dylan Shepherd-Barron.

Beult Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Beult 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.

Beult Castle is buildings are grouped arround an odd layout of restrictive baked earthen streets, which seems to be based on an overlapping squair patern such that there are small squares at the cornor of every bigger square. Sometimes buildings exist in the smaller squaires, other times they are open spaces, or occupied by temporary structures. The city resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The robustly designed timber walls 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.

Right off the bat Beult 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. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. This wealth has brought the city nothing but neurosis, if you can believe your eyes. Everyone acts as if you’re out to take a piece of them. Every door is locked and every window barred. Efforts are made to make you feel welcome, but only in the public areas of the city, particularly the market.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Beult 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.

Beult 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.

Beult 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.

Beult 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.

Beult 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.

Beult 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.

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

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

Beult 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 City. Beult Castle's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

Beult 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.

Beult 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 Beult Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Beult 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.

Beult 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.

Beult 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

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Beult Castle's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its buildings being predominantly formed through the combination of basic geometric shapes. However, it shown in the detailing given to the structures such as its characteristic tall columns, intricate detail, symmetry, harmony, and balance in their designs to an astonishing degree of precision. Decorative elements for the buildings tended to be built into the structure itself, making great use of fluting, frescoes, inlays, and embossing.

In Beult Castle the milk never sours.

The Mold, Slime near Beult Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Beult Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Transmutation energies of tier 3 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Beult Castle Census Data: Year 2000

4179 of Beult Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 235 work in Agriculture
• 929 work as Craftsmen
• 334 work as Merchants
• 649 work as Service Workers
• 427 work as General Laborers
• 167 work as Skilled Laborers
• 631 work as Civil Servants
• 356 work in Cottage Industries
• 226 work as Artists
• 225 work in Produce Industries

6346 of Beult Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 553 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Beult Castle is known for its unusual rock formations.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami granted the town a great harvest. One of Beult Castle's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History