Middleboro

Middleboro (/ˈmɪdl/ /boro/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Nō̌gyaw̄wē Dutchy, Padswestbu County, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Middleboro is derived from the Sylvin language, as Middleboro was founded by Shadda Dobbs, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Middleboro has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 10°C (50°F). Middleboro receives an average of 177 cm/y (69 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Middleboro covers an area of nearly 275 km² (110 mi²), and an average elevation of 4074 m (13366 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Middleboro was founded durring the early 16th century in summer of the year 1533, by Shadda Dobbs. The establishment of Middleboro was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Shadda Dobbs struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Middleboro as a prison colony.

Middleboro was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Middleboro 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.

Middleboro is buildings are speckled and packed arround broad paverstone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the city's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a city. The city posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Middleboro weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. The city's budget focused millitary grade defenses are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the city's defences.

Middleboro 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

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

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

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

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

Middleboro 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.

Middleboro 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.

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

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

Middleboro 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.

Middleboro 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.

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

Middleboro has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

Middleboro 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. Middleboro's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

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

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

Middleboro 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.

Middleboro 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 Middleboro's natural decorations nor waterways.

Middleboro 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.

Middleboro 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.

Middleboro 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.

Middleboro 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

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Middleboro's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Middleboro the milk never sours.

The Ghoul near Middleboro are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Middleboro's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves performance art to channel Conjuration energies of tier 3 via recitation of poetic epics.

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.

Middleboro Census Data: Year 2000

24596 of Middleboro's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1377 work in Agriculture
• 5599 work as Craftsmen
• 2018 work as Merchants
• 3696 work as Service Workers
• 2492 work as General Laborers
• 1004 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3538 work as Civil Servants
• 2167 work in Cottage Industries
• 1382 work as Artists
• 1323 work in Produce Industries

38164 of Middleboro's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1941 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Middleboro has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

POI

History

The the a pair of pants of Mysticism, an a pair of pants imbued with notable amounts of Mysticism energies was created near Middleboro by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History