Kennal Citidel

Kennal Citidel (/kennal/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Lorbrook Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Kennal Citidel is derived from the Sylvin language, as Kennal Citidel was founded by Jaynie Brack, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Kennal Citidel has a yearly average temperature of 14°C (57°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 3°C (37°F). Kennal Citidel receives an average of 251 cm/y (98 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Kennal Citidel covers an area of nearly 102 km² (40 mi²), and an average elevation of 1730 m (5675 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kennal Citidel was founded durring the late 15th century in summer of the year 1459, by Jaynie Brack. The establishment of Kennal Citidel was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Kennal Citidel's construction back out of the project. Jaynie Brack pushed on reguardles, and Kennal Citidel was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

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

Kennal Citidel is buildings are arranged within a network of premissive flagstone streets which form a rectangular grid, where each block verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller block has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city has a defencive wall made from querried stone. The wall is equipped with a full set of battlments but the nature of its construction methodology leaves it somewhat vulnerable to siege equipment. That said, the city is well defended against anything short of an army. The cost-cutting-focused defences 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.

Your first impression of Kennal Citidel proves to be right on the money. This city is where the rebels chose to settle. Fashion trends are quite simply the opposite of what’s popular in the other nearby communities. THis trend extends everywhere. Things that should be black are white, what would normally be square is organically curved, and what is typically unthinkable for polite society is more than welcome in this public square. Up to the logical limits, of course. There’s no flaying someone alive to eat their skin going on, but the women are dressed a little immodestly, the men are a little more emotional, and the food is all overly complex and terrible.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Kennal Citidel 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.

Kennal Citidel 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.

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

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

Kennal Citidel 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.

Kennal Citidel 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.

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

Kennal Citidel has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Kennal Citidel 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. Kennal Citidel's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

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

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

Kennal Citidel 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.

Kennal Citidel 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 Kennal Citidel's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kennal Citidel 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.

Kennal Citidel 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.

Kennal Citidel 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

Kennal Citidel's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Kennal Citidel the utterance of expletives is impossible within city limits. This has changed as the limits have changed, but has not kept up with slang, or swearing in foreign languages.

The Ramidreju near Kennal Citidel are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Kennal Citidel's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves long periods of drunkenness to channel Elven High Magic 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.

Kennal Citidel Census Data: Year 2000

8984 of Kennal Citidel's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 506 work in Agriculture
• 2073 work as Craftsmen
• 737 work as Merchants
• 1342 work as Service Workers
• 928 work as General Laborers
• 361 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1288 work as Civil Servants
• 781 work in Cottage Industries
• 497 work as Artists
• 471 work in Produce Industries

14532 of Kennal Citidel's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 727 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kennal Citidel is surrounded by dangerous terrain: miasmatic swamps, perilous crevasses, radioactive badlands, a pocket of or some other harmful topography. Kennal Citidel might prefer the defensive potential of the terrain here, or have found a precious resource worth the danger. The terrain might have formed at some time since the founding, with the citizens struggling to make terms with the new danger.

Kennal Citidel is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami spared the town a natural disaster. One of Kennal Citidel's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History