Cam Citidel

Cam Citidel (/kæm/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate City located in Windbeach Dutchy, Sifate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Cam Citidel is derived from the Sylvin language, as Cam Citidel was founded by Eve Holiday, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Cam Citidel has a yearly average temperature of 18°C (64°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 10°C (50°F). Cam Citidel receives an average of 144 cm/y (56 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Cam Citidel covers an area of nearly 36 km² (14 mi²), and an average elevation of 2448 m (8031 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Cam Citidel was founded durring the early 10th century, by Eve Holiday. The establishment of Cam Citidel suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Cam Citidel which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Cam Citidel was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Cam Citidel 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.

Cam Citidel is buildings are arranged arround a network of spacious cobblestone streets which form a grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. Cam Citidel's exceptionaly well made fortifications 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.

Cam Citidel is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This city is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

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

Cam Citidel has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.

Cam 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 City. Cam Citidel's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

Cam 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 Cam Citidel's natural decorations nor waterways.

Cam 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.

Cam 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.

Cam 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

Cam Citidel's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is recurring in Cam Citidel.

The Church Grim near Cam Citidel are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Cam Citidel's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Mysticism energies of tier 1 via recitation of scripture.

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.

Cam Citidel Census Data: Year 2000

3172 of Cam Citidel's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 174 work in Agriculture
• 700 work as Craftsmen
• 264 work as Merchants
• 500 work as Service Workers
• 324 work as General Laborers
• 132 work as Skilled Laborers
• 447 work as Civil Servants
• 279 work in Cottage Industries
• 182 work as Artists
• 170 work in Produce Industries

5117 of Cam Citidel's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 345 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Cam Citidel has access to some sort of functioning ancient infrastructure, whether it's an array of wall-mounted arcane energy projectors, running water, moving roadways, community-wide climate control, or some other inherited luxury. This infrastructure may be the result of a still-functional Working, or it could be the product of some venerable occult engine that's still operational, or it may be the fruit of the labors of some specially-designed organism or Blighted populace.

Cam Citidel is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Cam Citidel was attacked by a renegade group of the army. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Cam Citidel lost 121 people, 269 livestock, and 60 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 88, when members of Cam Citidel's militia enacted an operation to construct defenses in a particular fortification. The operation was complicated by at least some of the intelligence related to the operation was incorrect. The conflict ended with the defense of the fortification against a siege, which ended in a crushing defeat for Cam Citidel's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Cam Citidel's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History