Great Torpe

Great Torpe (/greɪt torpe / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Bachibà Hûmu̹du̹ County, Yean County, within the Kingdom of Helsteria.

The name Great Torpe is derived from the Sylvin language, as Great Torpe was founded by Breg̈kèbm Khunromud Muggeridge, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Great Torpe has a yearly average temperature of 26°C (78°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 22°C (71°F). Great Torpe receives an average of 138 cm/y (54 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Great Torpe covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 5670 m (18602 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Great Torpe was founded durring the early 13th century in spring of the year 1204, by Breg̈kèbm Khunromud Muggeridge. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

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

Great Torpe is buildings are arranged arround a network of broad baked earthen 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 town rests behind the absurdity that is a thick, timber braced, wall made of clay bricks. While visualy impressive and certainly an astetic, Great Torpe 's wall provides no actual defence against siege equipment due to the choice of its cosntruction materials. Even nonexperts can tell the town is trying to impress rather than defend with its walls, towers, and gatehouses. Though admittedly, they do look nice... To primitive tribals who have never seen fortifications before. The town's political statment focused walls are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the towns defences.

Great Torpe seems to be abandoned at first. There are people present, working their trades and going about their business like any community, it’s just they are absurdly quiet. Just as you start to think there might be trouble, you see most of them are smiling, quietly exchanging words with a friend, or simply enjoying the day as they work. It reminds you of an evening at home as everyone dined, having run out of things to talk about and embraced the savory meal before them.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Great Torpe 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.

Great Torpe 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.

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

Great Torpe has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

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

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

Great Torpe 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

While Great Torpe might ostensibly be ruled by some other power, real control lies with the senior members of the local craft and labor guilds. Their decisions have the practical weight of law, and much of their time and effort is spent squeezing out competitors and parceling out economic opportunities in the community. Some guilds might have little or nothing to do with their original trade, and now exist purely as shells for political influence.

Great Torpe '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 Great Torpe it is impossible to directly or indirectly lie.

The Dinosaur, Ceratosaurus near Great Torpe are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Great Torpe 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves gestures to channel Mysticism 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.

Great Torpe Census Data: Year 2000

341 of Great Torpe 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 24 work in Agriculture
• 77 work as Craftsmen
• 24 work as Merchants
• 57 work as Service Workers
• 33 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 49 work as Civil Servants
• 31 work in Cottage Industries
• 16 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

720 of Great Torpe 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 55 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Great Torpe 's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

POI

History

The the a javalin of Illusion, an a javalin imbued with great amounts of Illusion energies was created in Great Torpe by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History