Laughern Castle

Laughern Castle (/laughern/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small City located in the Doûvnḱínts̄r Region of the Goblin Tribes.

The name Laughern Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Laughern Castle was founded by Zêthepí Cowell, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Laughern Castle has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 31°C (87°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Laughern Castle receives an average of 280 cm/y (110 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Laughern Castle covers an area of nearly 10 km² (4 mi²), and an average elevation of 758 m (2486 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Laughern Castle was founded durring the late 14th century in winter of the year 1254, by Zêthepí Cowell. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Zêthepí Cowell.

Laughern Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Laughern Castle 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.

Laughern Castle is buildings are arranged within a network of premissive paverstone 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 rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. The millitarily questionable 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 Laughern Castle gives the unmistakable impression the town is one of the strictest places imaginable. Everyone’s actions are clearly directed by laws they keep in heart and mind at all times. Orderly byond order is a phrase which Laughern Castle brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Laughern Castle 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.

Laughern Castle 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.

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

Laughern Castle 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.

Laughern Castle 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.

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

Laughern Castle 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 Small City. Laughern Castle's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Laughern Castle 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 Laughern Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Laughern Castle 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.

Laughern Castle 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.

Laughern Castle 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

Laughern Castle'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 Laughern Castle during thunderstorms, with each flash of lightning, everyone sees different monsters from the corner of their eyes.

The Mole near Laughern Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Laughern Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves performance art to channel Transmutation energies of tier 3 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.

Laughern Castle Census Data: Year 2000

820 of Laughern Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 47 work in Agriculture
• 182 work as Craftsmen
• 65 work as Merchants
• 130 work as Service Workers
• 86 work as General Laborers
• 31 work as Skilled Laborers
• 119 work as Civil Servants
• 72 work in Cottage Industries
• 43 work as Artists
• 45 work in Produce Industries

1496 of Laughern Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 121 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Laughern Castle has been cursed with some blight that makes life difficult, albeit not impossible. An offended sorcerer's vengeful Working, an outraged god's wrath, a local distortion of the Legacy, or a simple history of bad feng shui in the area may have brought the curse about. I(devise not only the curse, but the reason why the locals haven't left for better lands).

Laughern Castle is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

The the a well of Illusion, an a well imbued with great amounts of Illusion energies was created near Lâha Gàma Gûchya by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History