Newtown Castle

Newtown Castle (/ˈnuˌtaʊn/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Large City located in Spellham Dutchy, Sifate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Newtown Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Newtown Castle was founded by Snuthosh Parkins, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Newtown Castle has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 11°C (51°F). Newtown Castle receives an average of 140 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Newtown Castle covers an area of nearly 59 km² (23 mi²), and an average elevation of 3672 m (12047 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Newtown Castle was founded durring the late 11th century, by Snuthosh Parkins. The establishment of Newtown Castle was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Snuthosh Parkins electing to pay people to resettle in Newtown Castle.

Newtown Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Newtown Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature plaster covered brick construction taking the shape of large simple gemometric shapes which ate then embelished with decorative features, but retain their simple shapes in spite of the added features such as pillars, faccaddes, and covered walkways. The blocky nature gives a general impression of extreem age, as if each structure has existed since time immemorial.

Newtown Castle is buildings are located arround a single restrictive baked earthen mainstreet which forms a clockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Newtown Castle's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. Astonishigly, the budget oriented are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

A quick look in any direction shows Newtown Castle is filled with vices. There are many taverns, brothels are advertising their services on the streets, cardsharks are plying their illicit trade within public squairs, and every shop has at least three signs advertising various sales on goods. That alone wouldn’t be too noticeable, if it wasn’t just so omnipresent and overwhelmingly how the people of this city live.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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.

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

Newtown Castle has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.

Newtown 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. Newtown Castle's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

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

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

Newtown 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 Newtown Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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.

Newtown 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

Newtown Castle's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used embraces individualism and experimentation. It emerged as a movement against traditional, classical styles and sought to make buildings dynamic and fun while breaking the rules. The style incorporated elements of previous architectural styles in exaggerated and whimsical ways. Traditional, conservative leanings were void in this era, with most scholars of architecture agreeing it was a time of “anything goes.”.

In Newtown Castle most nights are accompanied by colorful ribbons of light in the sky.

The Spider, Assassin (Giant) near Newtown Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Newtown Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves reenactments to channel Charm energies of tier 3 via moments of science.

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.

Newtown Castle Census Data: Year 2000

5165 of Newtown Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 292 work in Agriculture
• 1162 work as Craftsmen
• 418 work as Merchants
• 783 work as Service Workers
• 533 work as General Laborers
• 211 work as Skilled Laborers
• 736 work as Civil Servants
• 468 work in Cottage Industries
• 294 work as Artists
• 268 work in Produce Industries

7610 of Newtown Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1110 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Newtown Castle is centered around a major pilgrimage site. This may be a religious location of importance to a major faith, or it may be a more secular institution that draws the traffic, like a famous academy or the remains of some wondrous ancient work. Considerable local tension likely exists over controlling the access to the site and maximizing the profits from foreign visitors.

Newtown Castle has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Newtown 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 Newtown Castle lost 290 people, 384 livestock, and 42 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 71, when members of Newtown Castle's militia enacted an operation to destroy a particular enemy prototype. The operation was complicated by the officer in charge of Newtown Castle's forces was incompetent, and issue many foolish and-or unprofessional orders. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in defeat for Newtown Castle's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Newtown Castle's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History