Looe Castle

Looe Castle (/looe/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate City located in Ironwick Dutchy, Kobian Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Looe Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Looe Castle was founded by Giant Slugs Broom, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Looe Castle has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cold 8°C (46°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 16°C (60°F). Looe Castle receives an average of 215 cm/y (84 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Looe Castle covers an area of nearly 49 km² (19 mi²), and an average elevation of 578 m (1896 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Looe Castle was founded durring the early 13th century in summer of the year 1203, by Giant Slugs Broom. The establishment of Looe Castle suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Looe Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Looe Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Looe Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of premissive split-log ties streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city is the proud owner of a proper castle-style stone wall complete with all of the trimmings. It has towers, a moat, gatehouses, drawbridges, and even merticulationsshortsizeleadershipname.. Astonishigly, the perhapse unnessisarily well built defences are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

Looe Castle is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Looe 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.

Looe 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.

Looe 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.

Looe 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.

Looe 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.

Looe 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.

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

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

Looe 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 City. Looe Castle's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Looe Castle 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.

Looe 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 Looe Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Looe 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.

Looe 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.

Looe 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

Looe Castle's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Looe Castle there is always just enough rain to be annoying.

The Hungry Flesh near Looe Castle are known to be quite timid.

Looe Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves long periods of drunkenness to channel Mysticism energies of tier 1 via mimery.

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.

Looe Castle Census Data: Year 2000

4325 of Looe Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 248 work in Agriculture
• 974 work as Craftsmen
• 348 work as Merchants
• 657 work as Service Workers
• 449 work as General Laborers
• 175 work as Skilled Laborers
• 625 work as Civil Servants
• 380 work in Cottage Industries
• 239 work as Artists
• 230 work in Produce Industries

6954 of Looe Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 348 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Looe 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).

Looe Castle is known for its unusual rock formations.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with good fortune for a year and a day. One of Looe Castle's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History