City: Bovey Castle

Bovey Castle

Bovey Castle
Example Sylvin architecture.
StateHobben
ProvenceCosea Provence
RegionMêfit-mëcê Basin
Founded1333
Community LeaderLord Trênm Fehrman Dickons
Area49 km2 (19 mi2)
Average Yearly Temp25°C (77°F)
Average Elevation3488 m (11443 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation275 cm/y (108 in/y)
Population11594
Population Density236 people per km2 (610 people per mi2)
Town AuraEnchantment
Naming
Native nameBovey Castle
Pronunciation/ˈboʊvi/
Direct Translation[Translation Unavailable]
Translation[Not Yet Translated]

Bovey Castle (/ˈboʊvi/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in the Cosea Provence of the Hobben.

The name Bovey Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Bovey Castle was founded by Trênm Fehrman, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Bovey Castle has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 21°C (69°F). Bovey Castle receives an average of 275 cm/y (108 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Bovey Castle covers an area of nearly 49 km2 (19 mi2), and an average elevation of 3488 m (11443 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Bovey Castle was founded durring the early 14th century in fall of the year 1333, by Trênm Fehrman. The establishment of Bovey Castle suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Bovey Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Bovey Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Bovey Castle is buildings are arranged arround a single restrictive paverstone mainstreet with many smaller streets branching off of it which gives the city a over all rectangular shape, albit one warped and twisted by the nature of the curves of the main road. The city posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Bovey Castle weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. Bovey Castle's budget focused millitary grade defenses are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the city as needed.

Your first impression of Bovey Castle proves to be right on the money. This city is where the rebels chose to settle. Fashion trends are quite simply the opposite of what’s popular in the other nearby communities. THis trend extends everywhere. Things that should be black are white, what would normally be square is organically curved, and what is typically unthinkable for polite society is more than welcome in this public square. Up to the logical limits, of course. There’s no flaying someone alive to eat their skin going on, but the women are dressed a little immodestly, the men are a little more emotional, and the food is all overly complex and terrible.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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.

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

Bovey Castle has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

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

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

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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 Bovey Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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.

Bovey 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

Bovey Castle's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is skipped in Bovey Castle.

The Trailgaunt near Bovey Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Bovey Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves creating small tokens to channel Augury energies of tier 2 via throat chanting.

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.

Agriculture

  • Dairy Farmers: 22
  • Farmers: 36
  • Farm Laborer: 55
  • Hunters: 35
  • Milk Maids: 34
  • Ranchers: 15
  • Ranch Hands: 33
  • Shepherds: 30
    • Farmland: 46839 m2
    • Cattle and Similar Creatures: 2898
    • Poultry: 34782
    • Swine: 2318
    • Sheep: 115
    • Goats: 23
    • Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 1159

Craftsmen

  • Arms and Toolmakers: 22
  • Blacksmiths: 25
  • Bookbinders: 14
  • Buckle-makers: 16
  • Cabinetmakers: 25
  • Candlemakers: 38
  • Carpenters: 36
  • Clothmakers: 31
  • Coach and Harness Makers: 12
  • Coopers: 28
  • Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 15
  • Copyists: 10
  • Cutlers: 9
  • Fabricworkers: 26
  • Farrier: 59
  • Furriers: 7
  • Glassworkers: 39
  • Gunsmiths: 24
  • Harness-Makers: 10
  • Hatters: 22
  • Hosiery Workers: 8
  • Jewelers: 13
  • Leatherwrights: 32
  • Locksmiths: 11
  • Matchstick makers: 17
  • Musical Instrument Makers: 16
  • Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 14
  • Paper Workers: 16
  • Plasterers: 15
  • Pursemakers: 19
  • Roofers: 12
  • Ropemakers: 12
  • Rugmakers: 11
  • Saddlers: 21
  • Scabbardmakers: 25
  • Scalemakers: 12
  • Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 7
  • Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 11
  • Shoemakers: 11
  • Soap and Tallow Workers: 40
  • Tailors: 70
  • Tanners: 14
  • Upholsterers: 16
  • Watchmakers: 16
  • Weavers: 33
  • Whitesmiths: 9

Merchants

  • Adventuring Goods Retellers: 8
  • Arcana Sellers: 8
  • Beer-Sellers: 14
  • Booksellers: 17
  • Butchers: 32
  • Chandlers: 29
  • Chicken Butchers: 29
  • Entrepreneurs: 11
  • Fine Clothiers: 28
  • Fishmongers: 28
  • Florists: 6
  • Potion Sellers: 18
  • Resellers: 42
  • Spice Merchants: 15
  • Wine-sellers: 24
  • Wheelwright: 17
  • Woodsellers: 10

Service workers

  • Bakers: 57
  • Barbers: 51
  • Coachmen: 17
  • Cooks: 46
  • Doctors: 25
  • Gamekeepers: 17
  • Grooms: 10
  • Hairdressers: 37
  • Healers: 34
  • Housekeepers: 33
  • Housemaids: 68
  • House Stewards: 34
  • Inns: 11
  • Laundry maids: 21
  • Maidservants: 41
  • Nursery Maids: 23
  • Pastrycooks: 39
  • Restaurateur: 57
  • Tavern Keepers: 46

Specialized Laborer

  • Ashworkers: 16
  • Bleachers: 10
  • Chemical Workers: 6
  • Coal Heavers: 23
  • In-Town Couriers: 26
  • Long Haul Couriers: 25
  • Dockyard Workers: 23
  • Gas Workers: 5
  • Hay Merchants: 9
  • Leech Collectors: 31
  • Millers: 26
  • Miners: 24
  • Oilmen and Polishers: 18
  • Postmen: 25
  • Pure Finder: 15
  • Skinners: 35
  • Sugar Refiners: 6
  • Tosher: 18
  • Warehousemen: 38
  • Watercarriers: 23
  • Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 34

Skilled Laborers

  • Accountants: 14
  • Alchemist: 17
  • Clerk: 22
  • Dentists: 11
  • Educators: 34
  • Engineers: 16
  • Gardeners: 11
  • Mages: 8
  • Plumbers: 12
  • Pharmacist: 13
  • Professors: 4
  • Scientists: 8
  • Wizards: 5

Civil Servants

  • Adventurers: 11
  • Bankers: 15
  • Civil Clerks: 24
  • Civic Iudex: 13
  • Consultants: 7
  • Exorcist: 28
  • Fixers: 13
  • Kami Clerk: 23
  • Landlords: 22
  • Lawyers: 14
  • Legend Keepers: 20
  • Militia Officers: 105
  • Monks, Monastic: 37
  • Monks, Civic: 39
  • Historian, Oral: 26
  • Historian, Textual: 13
  • Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 26
  • Priests: 52
  • Rangers: 15
  • Rat Catchers: 17
  • Scholars: 18
  • Spiritualist: 21
  • Slayers: 6
  • Storytellers: 42
  • Military Officers: 39

Cottage Industries

  • Brewers: 30
  • Comfort Services: 42
  • Enchanters: 12
  • Herbalists: 13
  • Jaminators: 38
  • Needleworkers: 44
  • Potters: 19
  • Preserve Makers: 36
  • Quilters: 17
  • Seamsters: 55
  • Spinners: 31
  • Tinker: 13
  • Weaver: 29

Artists

  • Actors: 12
  • Architects: 4
  • Bards: 19
  • Costumers: 6
  • Dancers: 13
  • Drafters: 7
  • Engravers: 9
  • Fine Furniture Carpenters: 5
  • Glaziers: 12
  • Inlayers: 11
  • Musicians: 31
  • Painters, Art: 5
  • Playwrights: 12
  • Sculptors, Art: 9
  • Wood Carvers: 38
  • Writers: 39

Produce Industries

  • Butter Churners: 38
  • Canners: 34
  • Cheesmakers: 38
  • Ice Merchants: 5
  • Millers: 22
  • Picklers: 19
  • Smokers: 14
  • Stockmakers: 13
  • Tobacconists: 17
  • Tallowmakers: 27

4285 of Bovey Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

6614 of Bovey Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 695 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Bovey Castle was unknowingly built atop something unstable, and now that substrate is crumbling. It may be swampy ground or a decaying coastline, or it could be an ancient buried city that’s now giving way. In the case of some antique habitation, the denizens that once lived there might be boiling upward as their home is collapsing, or new opportunities may be revealed even as the community’s present structure is ruined.

Bovey Castle is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

The the a lyre of Transmutation, an a lyre imbued with potent amounts of Transmutation energies was created near Boke Wíhiē̼teq by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History