Millook Castle

Millook Castle (/millook/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in Barrowfalcon Dutchy, Duytea Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Millook Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Millook Castle was founded by Olwenda Seacole, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Millook Castle has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 2°C (35°F). Millook Castle receives an average of 139 cm/y (54 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Millook Castle covers an area of nearly 44 km² (17 mi²), and an average elevation of 3526 m (11568 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Millook Castle was founded durring the late 10th century, by Olwenda Seacole. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Millook Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Millook 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.

Millook Castle is buildings are built arround a single spacious packed earth mainstreet which forms a counterclockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. The city is protected by a humble stone fence which is tall enough to provide adiquite cover for defenders to fire from, but no more than that. The peasent-grade has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

Your first impression of Millook Castle proves to be right on the money. This city is where the rebels chose to settle. Fashion trends are quite simply the opposite of what’s popular in the other nearby communities. THis trend extends everywhere. Things that should be black are white, what would normally be square is organically curved, and what is typically unthinkable for polite society is more than welcome in this public square. Up to the logical limits, of course. There’s no flaying someone alive to eat their skin going on, but the women are dressed a little immodestly, the men are a little more emotional, and the food is all overly complex and terrible.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Millook 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.

Millook 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.

Millook 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.

Millook 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.

Millook 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.

Millook 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.

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

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

Millook 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. Millook Castle's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

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

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

Millook 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 Millook Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Millook 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.

Millook 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.

Millook 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

Millook Castle'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.

In Millook Castle it is impossible to directly or indirectly lie.

The Achaierai near Millook Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Millook Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves line dance to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 1 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.

Millook Castle Census Data: Year 2000

3929 of Millook Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 207 work in Agriculture
• 880 work as Craftsmen
• 317 work as Merchants
• 598 work as Service Workers
• 410 work as General Laborers
• 161 work as Skilled Laborers
• 575 work as Civil Servants
• 351 work in Cottage Industries
• 215 work as Artists
• 215 work in Produce Industries

6192 of Millook Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 532 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Millook Castle is reliant on an industry or product that has toxic or negative side-effects as part of its production. The good is extremely valuable, or the community is extremely desperate, and the side effects are endured as a necessary evil. It may be that their neighbors or lord are forcing them to produce the good so that they aren’t the ones suffering the cost.

Millook Castle's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Millook Castle was attacked by soldiers from another nation, waging a greater campaign. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Millook Castle lost 203 people, 184 livestock, and 73 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 146, when members of Millook Castle's militia enacted an operation to fortify a particular fortification. The operation was complicated by a trusted officer who turned traitor and defects. The conflict ended with an assault and siege on the fortification, which ended in defeat for Millook Castle's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Millook Castle's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History