Lough Wood

Lough Wood (/laʊ wʊd/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Town located in the Quiegsan Region of the Tetbur Commune.

The name Lough Wood is derived from the Sylvin language, as Lough Wood was founded by Hèbel Glkeg̈m Carwardine, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Lough Wood has a yearly average temperature of 28°C (82°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 32°C (89°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 25°C (77°F). Lough Wood receives an average of 175 cm/y (68 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Lough Wood covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 6478 m (21253 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Lough Wood was founded durring the late 11th century, by Hèbel Glkeg̈m Carwardine. The establishment of Lough Wood was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Lough Wood's construction back out of the project. Hèbel Glkeg̈m Carwardine pushed on reguardles, and Lough Wood was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Lough Wood was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Lough Wood is no diffrent. The town'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.

Lough Wood is buildings are arranged arround a network of crampt flagstone 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 town emploies a series of defencive earthworks and fences to provide minimal protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Lough Wood's somewhat suffishent 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.

Lough Wood is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the town 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

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

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

Lough Wood 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.

Lough Wood 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.

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

Lough Wood 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.

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

Lough Wood 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 Town. Lough Wood's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

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

Lough Wood has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Lough Wood 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.

Cultural Notes

There’s a relatively new religion in Lough Wood which is rapidly gaining power. It might be a sectarian offshoot of a major faith, the unique product of a new prophet, or an outside faith backed by wealthy and powerful foreign supporters. Depending on the demands made on believers, the new faith may be a matter of concern only to the existing clergy, or it might be a major flashpoint for conflict in the community.

Lough Wood's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its fluid and florid elaborate style, comprising ornate, asymmetric designs and pastel shades. It is often considered to be a playful, light style, which made exuberant use of curves and emphasized subtle asymmetry in the general shape of its structures. Walls, ceilings and moldings are decorated with numerous interlacing of curves and counter-curves based on the shapes of ‘C’ and ‘S’, along with shell forms and other naturalistic shapes.

The Snake, Venomous near Lough Wood are known to be quite timid.

Lough Wood's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves performance art to channel Illusion energies of tier 2 via singing.

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.

Lough Wood Census Data: Year 2000

377 of Lough Wood's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 24 work in Agriculture
• 85 work as Craftsmen
• 29 work as Merchants
• 62 work as Service Workers
• 37 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 53 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 17 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

825 of Lough Wood's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 50 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Lough Wood is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

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History

The the a leather gambeson of Mysticism, an a leather gambeson imbued with potent amounts of Mysticism energies was created in Lough Wood by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History