Ring Norting

Ring Norting (/rɪŋ ˈnɔrtɪŋ/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in the Bāwkyoīä Provence of the Kingdom of Hobben.

The name Ring Norting is derived from the Sylvin language, as Ring Norting was founded by Byoctîl Akehurst, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Ring Norting has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Ring Norting receives an average of 269 cm/y (105 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ring Norting covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3088 m (10131 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ring Norting was founded durring the late 15th century in summer of the year 1364, by Byoctîl Akehurst. The establishment of Ring Norting was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Byoctîl Akehurst struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Ring Norting as a prison colony.

Ring Norting was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ring Norting is no diffrent. The town'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.

Ring Norting is buildings are speckled and packed arround spacious packed earth streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town'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 town. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks and fences to provide minimal protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. The somewhat suffishent 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.

A look around Ring Norting has something terribly wrong with it. It’s impossible to put one’s finger on, but something is horribly wrong. Maybe it’s the way fog blankets the ground, but only in the connors of places. Maybe it’s the vermin scuttling between shadows in the corner of your eyes. Perhaps it’s the overcast sky which seemed to creep out of nowhere, or the distant howling of wolves. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring just long enough for it to be uncomfortable. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Regardless, you do not feel it would be wise to remain in Ring Norting long.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Ring Norting 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.

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

Ring Norting 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.

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

Ring Norting has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Ring Norting possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Ring Norting 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 Ring Norting's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ring Norting 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.

Ring Norting 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

Ring Norting's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Ring Norting hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Ramidreju near Ring Norting are known to be quite timid.

Ring Norting's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Augury energies of tier 3 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.

Ring Norting Census Data: Year 2000

436 of Ring Norting's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 97 work as Craftsmen
• 34 work as Merchants
• 74 work as Service Workers
• 43 work as General Laborers
• 16 work as Skilled Laborers
• 57 work as Civil Servants
• 42 work in Cottage Industries
• 22 work as Artists
• 25 work in Produce Industries

923 of Ring Norting's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 27 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

The roads leading into Ring Norting possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

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History

Ring Norting is still bloodied by a recent violent conflict. A crushing bandit raid, a lost siege, getting caught at the periphery of a major battle, or some other calamity has inflicted severe damage on the place. Some communities may suffer a longer-term version of this, their youths lost in a grinding, endless battle against some perpetual threat.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Ring Norting 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 Ring Norting lost 223 people, 209 livestock, and 40 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 44, when members of Ring Norting's militia enacted an operation to gain control of a particular mine. The operation was complicated by major logistical problems. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in a stalemate for Ring Norting's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Ring Norting's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History