Hollyend

Hollyend (/ˈhɒli/ /ɛnd/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Harmouthet Shire of the Kingdom of Hobben.

The name Hollyend is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Hollyend was founded by Tshênhë, who was culturaly Hobben.

Climate

Hollyend has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Hollyend receives an average of 270 cm/y (106 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Hollyend covers an area of nearly 337 km² (134 mi²), and an average elevation of 1620 m (5314 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Hollyend was founded durring the early 15th century in summer of the year 1446, by Tshênhë. The establishment of Hollyend was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Tshênhë electing to pay people to resettle in Hollyend.

Hollyend was built using the conventions of Hobben durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Hollyend is no diffrent. The city'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.

Hollyend is buildings are arranged arround a network of narrow 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 city is the proud owner of a thick set of fortified walls fashioned from querried stone blocks. While not up to snuff for a fort or castle wall, the city's walls are naturaly much larger than those of forts or castles. Therefore, the construction such a wall is most expencive. Hollyend's buget focused wall would serve its community well in battle in spite of looking unimpressive compared to castles and fortresses. Hollyend's top tier civilian fortifications has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

A look arround Hollyend reveals an abundance of schools, libraries, and other academic structures. Locals can be overheard having academic discussions, as well as talking about scholarly subjects in general. It’s quite clear the city places a lot of value on education and being a learned individual.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Hollyend 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.

Hollyend 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.

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

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

Hollyend 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.

Hollyend 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.

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

Hollyend has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

Hollyend 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. Hollyend's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Hollyend possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

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

Hollyend has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Hollyend 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 Hollyend's natural decorations nor waterways.

Hollyend 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.

Hollyend 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.

Hollyend 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.

Hollyend is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

Hollyend's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by order, symmetry, formal design, grandiosity, and elaborate ornamentation. Architectural characteristics include balustrades, balconies, columns, cornices, pilasters, and triangular pediments. Stone exteriors are massive and grandiose in their symmetry; interiors are typically polished and lavishly decorated with sculptures, swags, medallions, flowers, and shields. Interiors will often have a grand stairway and opulent ballroom..

In Hollyend hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Skin Stitcher near Hollyend are known to be quite timid.

Hollyend'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 Illusion energies of tier 2 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.

Hollyend Census Data: Year 2000

30673 of Hollyend's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1752 work in Agriculture
• 6852 work as Craftsmen
• 2512 work as Merchants
• 4710 work as Service Workers
• 3223 work as General Laborers
• 1245 work as Skilled Laborers
• 4283 work as Civil Servants
• 2757 work in Cottage Industries
• 1688 work as Artists
• 1651 work in Produce Industries

44718 of Hollyend's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 4812 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

The roads leading into Hollyend 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.

POI

History

Hollyend used to be much richer, but something happened in the last (20589 % 6)+1 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.

The the a pair of spaulders of Mysticism, an a pair of spaulders imbued with notable amounts of Mysticism energies was created near Hollyend by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History