Derry Castle

Derry Castle (/ˈdɛri/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Bellston Dutchy, Tuhate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Derry Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Derry Castle was founded by Bresí Watkins, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Derry Castle has a yearly average temperature of 17°C (62°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 19°C (66°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 15°C (59°F). Derry Castle receives an average of 268 cm/y (105 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Derry Castle covers an area of nearly 166 km² (66 mi²), and an average elevation of 1244 m (4081 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Derry Castle was founded durring the early 10th century, by Bresí Watkins. The establishment of Derry Castle was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Derry Castle's construction back out of the project. Bresí Watkins pushed on reguardles, and Derry Castle was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

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

Derry Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of restrictive flagstone streets which form a diagonal shaped 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 in posession of a finaly crafted dwarvern style fortified fighting wall, completer with lower, middle, and upper battlments for use in sloped-fire defence stratagies, murder holes, and statues which may or may not be constructs, and, of course, MERTICULATIONSshortsizename is one of the wealthiest and politicaly connected settlments in the world.. The city's Ragnarock-era relics are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the city's defences.

Right off the bat Derry Castle hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. The influx of wealth has brought with it an influx of relaxation. Everywhere you look people are enjoying their prosperity in a slow, casual, and deliberate manner. There’s no rush for anything anywhere you look.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

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

Derry Castle has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Derry 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. Derry Castle's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Derry Castle 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.

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

Derry 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.

Derry 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 Derry Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

Derry 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.

Derry Castle 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

Derry Castle's garrison 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..

In Derry Castle every night at precisely midnight every structure in town is engulfed by sailors fire until the end of the witching hour.

The Ronus near Derry Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Derry Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Illusion energies of tier 2 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.

Derry Castle Census Data: Year 2000

14688 of Derry Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 803 work in Agriculture
• 3236 work as Craftsmen
• 1184 work as Merchants
• 2260 work as Service Workers
• 1533 work as General Laborers
• 613 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2168 work as Civil Servants
• 1303 work in Cottage Industries
• 810 work as Artists
• 778 work in Produce Industries

22729 of Derry Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1559 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

Derry Castle used to be much richer, but something happened in the last 4 years to crush its source of prosperity. Different factions of the community might be trying to grasp at the remaining dregs of wealth, others might try to restart the failed industry, and some might look for a new livelihood. Any group or entity thought responsible for the collapse is likely to be treated very harshly, and some locals might find profit in shifting the blame to their enemies.

The the a suit of Ring armour of Conjuration, an a suit of Ring armour imbued with potent amounts of Conjuration energies was created near Derry Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History