Glassden

Glassden (/glassden/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Zùwuczug County, Tuhate Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Glassden is derived from the Sylvin language, as Glassden was founded by Fyëgèj Renssalaer, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Glassden has a yearly average temperature of 13°C (55°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cold 10°C (50°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 17°C (62°F). Glassden receives an average of 258 cm/y (101 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Glassden covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1050 m (3444 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Glassden was founded durring the early 12th century in winter of the year 1134, by Fyëgèj Renssalaer. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Glassden was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Glassden 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.

Glassden is buildings are speckled and packed arround crampt flagstone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a town. The town is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. The exceptionaly well made fortifications have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

A look around Glassden makes it abundantly clear the town suffered something horrible some time ago. It’s a quiet town filled with closed scriptoriums, people quietly yet dejectedly reading in isolated places around town, and the occasional book laying in a heap of garbage.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Glassden 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.

Glassden 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.

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

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

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

Glassden 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

One or more crime bosses have a powerful influence within Glassden. They may control crime within the community itself, or they may use it simply as a safe haven from which to direct their minions elsewhere. Local law enforcement may know all about them, but lack the strength to confront them and their paid or intimidated henchmen.

Glassden'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 short in Glassden.

The Ifrit near Glassden are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Glassden's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves bloodletting to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 1 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Glassden Census Data: Year 2000

371 of Glassden's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 83 work as Craftsmen
• 30 work as Merchants
• 63 work as Service Workers
• 35 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 53 work as Civil Servants
• 35 work in Cottage Industries
• 17 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

793 of Glassden's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 74 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of killed a tyrannical who had controlled Glassden for years. A small order of knights was founded in 's honor, and bears his name to this day.

History