Fairgrove

Fairgrove (/fairgrove/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small Town located in Dellholt Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Fairgrove is derived from the Sylvin language, as Fairgrove was founded by Vúr Yó̄̋ch 'Bella Anna' Yóńnv Ga̋mēr Vúoī Spackman, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Fairgrove has a yearly average temperature of 13°C (55°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 1°C (33°F). Fairgrove 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. Fairgrove covers an area of nearly 3 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 2782 m (9127 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Fairgrove was founded durring the late 13th century in fall of the year 1157, by Vúr Yó̄̋ch 'Bella Anna' Yóńnv Ga̋mēr Vúoī Spackman. The establishment of Fairgrove was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Vúr Yó̄̋ch 'Bella Anna' Yóńnv Ga̋mēr Vúoī Spackman struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Fairgrove as a prison colony.

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

Fairgrove is buildings are arranged arround a network of spacious paverstone streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks, spikes, and fences to provide some protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Fairgrove's minimaly adiquite are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the town as needed.

Fairgrove is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the town 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. There’s a patern to the panic. It’s not easy to see, and no one quite agrees on what it is, but the locals know and operate under this pattern. It shapes everything they do, and you feel as if you’ve almost worked it out only for some small detail to devastate your theory every time you try and comprehend it.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Fairgrove 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.

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

Fairgrove 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.

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

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

Fairgrove 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.

Cultural Notes

Two or more groups of citizens within Fairgrove hate each other. Their neighbors or the local law have kept things from too-overt violence, but members of the groups will constantly interfere with their rivals and cause whatever misery they can get away with. This hate may spring from recent events, or it may be an inherited spite from old wrongs.

Fairgrove's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, dramatic use of columns, and a preference for blank walls. This design ethos extended to re-imagining earlier styles of structure to create them anew, with a similar overall look and feel to one another..

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is long in Fairgrove.

The Spider, Assassin (Giant) near Fairgrove are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Fairgrove's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves performance art to channel Invocation 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.

Fairgrove Census Data: Year 2000

216 of Fairgrove's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 17 work in Agriculture
• 45 work as Craftsmen
• 17 work as Merchants
• 39 work as Service Workers
• 20 work as General Laborers
• 7 work as Skilled Laborers
• 33 work as Civil Servants
• 20 work in Cottage Industries
• 7 work as Artists
• 11 work in Produce Industries

594 of Fairgrove's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 16 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century heavy spring rains following an uncharacteristically dry year and a minor earthquake resulted in the collapse of the south west side of Doom Valley. the landslide struck Fairgrove, and devastated the community. 292 people, 246 livestock, and 91 buildings were lost to the calamity. The disaster is recorded in history as Doom's Fall.

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