Leach Castle

Leach Castle (/liʧ/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Doûvnḱínts̄r Region of the Goblin Tribes.

The name Leach Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Leach Castle was founded by Rrhithnor Kennedy, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Leach 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). Leach Castle receives an average of 279 cm/y (109 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Leach Castle covers an area of nearly 206 km² (82 mi²), and an average elevation of 1400 m (4593 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Leach Castle was founded durring the early 15th century in winter of the year 1449, by Rrhithnor Kennedy. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Leach Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Leach Castle 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.

Leach Castle is buildings folow an organic layout of premissive gravel streets whihch gives the city a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The city rests behind a set of well fortified walls, with gatehouses, watch towers, and battlments. Leach Castle's walls are, howeaver, fashioned from stone and timber. While unorthadox, the design looks to be functional to a reasonable degree. With luck, the untested design will remain untested for years to come. The city's unusual yet seemingly effective fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Right off the bat Leach Castle hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Leach 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.

Leach 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.

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

Leach 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.

Leach 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.

Leach 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.

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

Leach Castle has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Leach 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 Large City. Leach Castle's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

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

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

Leach Castle 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.

Leach 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 Leach Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Leach 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.

Leach 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.

Leach 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.

Leach Castle 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

Leach Castle's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Leach Castle the water is caffeinated.

The Mole near Leach Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Leach Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 2 via throat 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.

Leach Castle Census Data: Year 2000

18541 of Leach Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1030 work in Agriculture
• 4301 work as Craftsmen
• 1524 work as Merchants
• 2787 work as Service Workers
• 1886 work as General Laborers
• 769 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2554 work as Civil Servants
• 1693 work in Cottage Industries
• 1027 work as Artists
• 970 work in Produce Industries

29416 of Leach Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 978 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

Leach Castle used to be more prosperous, but something happened relatively long ago that left it a shrunken shadow of its former self. If the settlement is prosperous, the locals often lament how much more they could have had. If the settlement is not prosperous, the locals blame their ill fortunes on that event. Reminders of this better time can be found in many places within Leach Castle.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century Leach Castle was struck by unseasonably warm weather, causing a sweltering heat to smouther the land for 22 days. Leach Castle lost 258 people and 317 livestock in the disaster.. The deadly heat is remembered by most as the Woe's Flame.

History