Brun Castle

Brun Castle (/brʌn/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Lightfield Dutchy, Ipoulan Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Brun Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Brun Castle was founded by Gärm Mé̄s 'Hit Icemewllo' Yä̌s Ga̋chī Gä̌sh Adlard, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Brun Castle has a yearly average temperature of 20°C (68°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Brun Castle receives an average of 141 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Brun Castle covers an area of nearly 97 km² (38 mi²), and an average elevation of 5114 m (16778 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Brun Castle was founded durring the early 14th century in spring of the year 1306, by Gärm Mé̄s 'Hit Icemewllo' Yä̌s Ga̋chī Gä̌sh Adlard. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Brun Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Brun Castle 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.

Brun Castle is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of spacious paverstone streets which form octogonal paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The city is the proud owner of a thick set of fortified walls fashioned from querried stone blocks. While not up to snuff for a fort or castle wall, the city's walls are naturaly much larger than those of forts or castles. Therefore, the construction such a wall is most expencive. Brun Castle's buget focused wall would serve its community well in battle in spite of looking unimpressive compared to castles and fortresses. Brun Castle's top tier civilian fortifications has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

Brun Castle seems to be abandoned at first. There are people present, working their trades and going about their business like any community, it’s just they are absurdly quiet. Just as you start to think there might be trouble, you see most of them are reading. The entire city feels like a library, with those not reading remaining quite to not disturb those who have their nose in a book. The longer you remain in Brun Castle the more you start to wonder if you’ve entered some strange open-concept University rather than a city, but you can’t quite say such with certainty.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Brun 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.

Brun 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.

Brun 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.

Brun 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.

Brun 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.

Brun 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Brun 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.

Brun 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 Brun Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Brun 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.

Brun 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.

Brun 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

Brun Castle's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for its striking sculptural forms and often dazzling ornamental detail that characterizes the buildings general shape. The radiant colors, rich patterns, and symmetrical silhouettes employed by this style were backed up by rich decorative features including gardens, courtyards, extruded arches, domes, pointed domes, vaulted ceilings, elaborate painted and inlaid designs, and decorative sculptures.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is skipped in Brun Castle.

The Tigrilla near Brun Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Brun Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Enchantment 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.

Brun Castle Census Data: Year 2000

8574 of Brun Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 464 work in Agriculture
• 1889 work as Craftsmen
• 692 work as Merchants
• 1286 work as Service Workers
• 899 work as General Laborers
• 351 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1286 work as Civil Servants
• 750 work in Cottage Industries
• 478 work as Artists
• 479 work in Produce Industries

13000 of Brun Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1377 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century was struck by a great wind storm. A great funnel cloud itself touched down in Brun Castle, bringing twisting winds which killed 191 people, 232 livestock, and 94 buildings in the disaster.. The disaster is generally remembered as the Howling Winds of Torment.

History