Fort Padbury

Fort Padbury (/padbury/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Greymage Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Fort Padbury is derived from the Sylvin language, as Fort Padbury was founded by Brêrêtco Rice Welbourn, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Fort Padbury has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -1°C (31°F). Fort Padbury receives an average of 144 cm/y (56 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Fort Padbury covers an area of nearly 83 km² (33 mi²), and an average elevation of 4146 m (13602 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Fort Padbury was founded in time immemorial, reportedly some time durring the late 8th century, by Brêrêtco Rice Welbourn. The establishment of Fort Padbury was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Brêrêtco Rice Welbourn struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Fort Padbury as a prison colony.

Fort Padbury was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 8th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Fort Padbury is no diffrent. The city'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.

Fort Padbury is buildings are grouped arround an odd layout of spacious cobblestone streets, which seems to be based on an overlapping squair patern such that there are small squares at the cornor of every bigger square. Sometimes buildings exist in the smaller squaires, other times they are open spaces, or occupied by temporary structures. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Fort Padbury's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. The budget oriented has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Fort Padbury, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same divine, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its divine. Asside form the revrent worship, you can see the citizens are preparing for something, and that something isn’t good. Weapons are worn openly. Defensive structures have been recently constructed to guard less used areas of the city. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Fort Padbury 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.

Fort Padbury 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.

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

Fort Padbury has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Fort Padbury 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.

Fort Padbury 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.

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

Fort Padbury has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Fort Padbury 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. Fort Padbury's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Fort Padbury's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

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

Fort Padbury has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Fort Padbury 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 Fort Padbury's natural decorations nor waterways.

Fort Padbury 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.

Fort Padbury 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.

Fort Padbury 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

Fort Padbury's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

In Fort Padbury there is always just enough rain to be annoying.

The Caypup near Fort Padbury are known to be quite timid.

Fort Padbury's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Conjuration energies of tier 2 via chanting.

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.

Fort Padbury Census Data: Year 2000

7562 of Fort Padbury's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 441 work in Agriculture
• 1671 work as Craftsmen
• 582 work as Merchants
• 1158 work as Service Workers
• 754 work as General Laborers
• 303 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1176 work as Civil Servants
• 678 work in Cottage Industries
• 406 work as Artists
• 393 work in Produce Industries

11210 of Fort Padbury's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 987 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

The roads leading into Fort Padbury possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

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History

Fort Padbury 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.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami spared the town from the rampage of a legendary monster. One of Fort Padbury's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History