Farungen

Farungen (/farungen/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Ohà Qàyacha Kingdom, Emada County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Farungen is derived from the Sylvin language, as Farungen was founded by Tatera Jinkinson Birtwistle, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Farungen has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 17°C (62°F). Farungen receives an average of 176 cm/y (69 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Farungen covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 8576 m (-14813 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Farungen was founded durring the late 17th century in late fall of the year 1597, by Tatera Jinkinson Birtwistle. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Farungen was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Farungen is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Farungen is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of crampt paverstone streets which form triangular 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 resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The town's robustly designed timber walls are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the town's defences.

The first thing you notice about Farungen is the large sign at the entrance welcoming you to their humble town. Children come up to you and say hi, some asking if you’ve fought any big monsters, and others just zipping away after their hello. The adults are much the same. By the time you’ve made it a significant way into the town you’ve been invited to a tavern for a pint to drink in exchange for news of the world. You’ve also had no less than three older women give you a sweetroll and direct your attention to their still unmarried children. It would be creepy if it wasn't so sincere.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Farungen 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.

Farungen 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.

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

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

Farungen 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

Farungen's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

In Farungen sometimes, near one of the seasonal solstices, the sun appears to split into three and it rains from a clear sky for several hours.

The Snake, Constrictor (Anaconda) near Farungen are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Farungen's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves orgies to channel Invocation energies of tier 1 via mimery.

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.

Farungen Census Data: Year 2000

345 of Farungen's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 23 work in Agriculture
• 79 work as Craftsmen
• 25 work as Merchants
• 57 work as Service Workers
• 34 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 49 work as Civil Servants
• 31 work in Cottage Industries
• 18 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

787 of Farungen's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 23 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Farungen has been cursed with some blight that makes life difficult, albeit not impossible. An offended sorcerer's vengeful Working, an outraged god's wrath, a local distortion of the Legacy, or a simple history of bad feng shui in the area may have brought the curse about. I(devise not only the curse, but the reason why the locals haven't left for better lands).

Farungen 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 early 2nd century a local hero by the name of saved most of the town when a natural disaster struck Farungen. was immortalized in song for this deed.

History