Dartington

Dartington (/dartington/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small Town located in Belford Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Dartington is derived from the Sylvin language, as Dartington was founded by Fyesheg̈ Young, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Dartington has a yearly average temperature of 9°C (48°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 11°C (51°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 7°C (44°F). Dartington receives an average of 207 cm/y (81 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Dartington covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 1874 m (6148 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Dartington was founded durring the early 14th century in fall of the year 1307, by Fyesheg̈ Young. The establishment of Dartington suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Dartington which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Dartington was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Dartington is no diffrent. The town'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.

Dartington is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of narrow baked earthen streets which form hexical 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 town is protected by a well-crafted cobblestone fence tall enough to provide adiquite cover for defenders to fire from, but no more than that. The town's frontieer-style defences are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the towns defences.

A look around Dartington is like a look into a broken heart which long ago fell to corruption. There is no planning, no organization. Everyone here clearly goes about their own thing with little thought to anyone around them who isn’t selling something they need… unless of course, they would be an easy target for some robbery. The town has truly fallen to evil.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Dartington 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.

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

Dartington 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.

Dartington 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.

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

Dartington possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Dartington has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Dartington 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.

Dartington is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

Life is hard in Dartington. Its people are impoverished compared to their peers elsewhere. Something is making the locals stay, however, whether fear of the alternative, hope for a better future, or a stubborn attachment to their ancestral lands. Whatver the reason, living in this harsh area for generations has made the people of Dartington a notably resourceful and hearty people.

Dartington's town hall 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, autumn is short in Dartington.

The Vukodlak near Dartington are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Dartington's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves sex to channel Charm energies of tier 1 via singing.

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.

Dartington Census Data: Year 2000

277 of Dartington's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 59 work as Craftsmen
• 21 work as Merchants
• 42 work as Service Workers
• 27 work as General Laborers
• 10 work as Skilled Laborers
• 43 work as Civil Servants
• 26 work in Cottage Industries
• 13 work as Artists
• 15 work in Produce Industries

640 of Dartington's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 69 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a great storm brought so much rain to Dartington. The resulting flood was isolated to the area around Dartington, which was swallowed by the waters for several days. Dartington lost 227 people, 151 livestock, and 61 buildings in the disaster. The disaster is remembered as the Damnation Drownings.

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