Roddlesworth Castle

Roddlesworth Castle (/roddlesworth/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a temperate Large City located in Maplebridge Dutchy, Emzada Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Roddlesworth Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Roddlesworth Castle was founded by Pangwen Dane, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Roddlesworth Castle has a yearly average temperature of 20°C (68°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 13°C (55°F). Roddlesworth Castle receives an average of 136 cm/y (53 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Roddlesworth Castle covers an area of nearly 113 km² (45 mi²), and an average elevation of 4236 m (13897 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Roddlesworth Castle was founded durring the late 13th century in winter of the year 1163, by Pangwen Dane. The establishment of Roddlesworth Castle suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Roddlesworth Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Roddlesworth Castle 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.

Roddlesworth Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of broad carved bedrock streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. The city's would-be-castle fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Roddlesworth Castle, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same divine, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its divine. Asside form the revrent worship, you can see the citizens are preparing for something, and that something isn’t good. Weapons are worn openly. Defensive structures have been recently constructed to guard less used areas of the city. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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.

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

Roddlesworth Castle has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Roddlesworth 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. Roddlesworth Castle's grid is powered by an arcane means.

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

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

Roddlesworth Castle has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Roddlesworth 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 Roddlesworth Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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.

Roddlesworth 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

Two or more groups of citizens within Roddlesworth Castle hate each other. Their neighbors or the local law have kept things from too-overt violence, but members of the groups will constantly interfere with their rivals and cause whatever misery they can get away with. This hate may spring from recent events, or it may be an inherited spite from old wrongs.

Roddlesworth Castle's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

In Roddlesworth Castle there are unidentifiable people in the fog, but it seems to be okay.

The Mud Elemental, Medium near Roddlesworth Castle are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Roddlesworth Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Augury energies of tier 1 via proclamations.

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.

Roddlesworth Castle Census Data: Year 2000

10138 of Roddlesworth Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 534 work in Agriculture
• 2303 work as Craftsmen
• 838 work as Merchants
• 1540 work as Service Workers
• 1044 work as General Laborers
• 416 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1478 work as Civil Servants
• 903 work in Cottage Industries
• 547 work as Artists
• 535 work in Produce Industries

14685 of Roddlesworth Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2158 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with wealth for a year and a day. One of Roddlesworth Castle's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History