Bralik Citidel

Bralik Citidel (/breɪn/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Cosea Provence of the Hobben.

The name Bralik Citidel is derived from the Sylvin language, as Bralik Citidel was founded by Fyêpí Rixon, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Bralik Citidel has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 23°C (73°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 15°C (59°F). Bralik Citidel receives an average of 258 cm/y (101 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Bralik Citidel covers an area of nearly 95 km² (38 mi²), and an average elevation of 3750 m (12303 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Bralik Citidel was founded durring the early 13th century in fall of the year 1218, by Fyêpí Rixon. The establishment of Bralik Citidel suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Bralik Citidel which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Bralik Citidel was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Bralik Citidel is no diffrent. The city'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.

Bralik Citidel is buildings are located arround a single restrictive paverstone mainstreet which forms a clockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. 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 Bralik Citidel'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. The city's budget oriented have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the city.

A look around Bralik Citidel gives you an uneasy feeling. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring jsut long enough for it to be uncomfortable. Beneath this surface, the people of Bralik Citidel can be overheard having academic discussions, as well as talking about scholarly subjects in general. It’s quite clear Bralik Citidel places a lot of value on education and being a learned individual.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Bralik Citidel 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.

Bralik Citidel 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.

Bralik Citidel has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Bralik Citidel has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Bralik Citidel 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.

Bralik Citidel 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.

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

Bralik Citidel has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Bralik Citidel 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. Bralik Citidel's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Bralik Citidel 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.

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

Bralik Citidel 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.

Bralik Citidel 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 Bralik Citidel's natural decorations nor waterways.

Bralik Citidel 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.

Bralik Citidel 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.

Bralik Citidel 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

Bralik Citidel's chapel 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 Bralik Citidel snow is warm to the touch and does not melt within city limits. Also it only happens during summer.

The Trailgaunt near Bralik Citidel are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Bralik Citidel's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves square dance to channel Augury energies of tier 3 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.

Bralik Citidel Census Data: Year 2000

8467 of Bralik Citidel's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 449 work in Agriculture
• 1925 work as Craftsmen
• 681 work as Merchants
• 1292 work as Service Workers
• 858 work as General Laborers
• 343 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1232 work as Civil Servants
• 782 work in Cottage Industries
• 463 work as Artists
• 442 work in Produce Industries

12500 of Bralik Citidel's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1578 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Bralik Citidel is surrounded by dangerous terrain: miasmatic swamps, perilous crevasses, radioactive badlands, a pocket of or some other harmful topography. Bralik Citidel might prefer the defensive potential of the terrain here, or have found a precious resource worth the danger. The terrain might have formed at some time since the founding, with the citizens struggling to make terms with the new danger.

Bralik Citidel has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

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History

The the a monocole of Abjuration, an a monocole imbued with potent amounts of Abjuration energies was created near Brain Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History