Scotglen

Scotglen (/scotglen/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Stonewitch Dutchy, Nuea Kingdom, within the Sylvanian Empire.

The name Scotglen is derived from the Sylvin language, as Scotglen was founded by Lush Pickering, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Scotglen has a yearly average temperature of 17°C (62°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 9°C (48°F). Scotglen receives an average of 137 cm/y (53 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Scotglen covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4510 m (14796 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Scotglen was founded durring the early 15th century in summer of the year 1426, by Lush Pickering. The establishment of Scotglen 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.

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

Scotglen is buildings are speckled and packed arround premissive flagstone 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 resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Unfortuantly, these robustly designed timber walls are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

A look around Scotglen seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do. On second glance, that chaos continues into adulthood. 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. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Scotglen 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.

Scotglen 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.

Scotglen 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.

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

Scotglen has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Scotglen 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.

Cultural Notes

Scotglen's town hall 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 Scotglen the stars are always right.

The Raven near Scotglen are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Scotglen's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves destroying a prepared ritual vessel to channel Invocation energies of tier 3 via oath swearing.

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.

Scotglen Census Data: Year 2000

377 of Scotglen's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 22 work in Agriculture
• 84 work as Craftsmen
• 30 work as Merchants
• 62 work as Service Workers
• 37 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 55 work as Civil Servants
• 33 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

816 of Scotglen's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 49 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Scotglen is known for its well built pedestrian paths, which include foot bridges to cross the main street at several high-traffic areas.

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History

Scotglen 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 late 2nd century Anguish Peak, an iconic vista located neare Scotglen, proved to be volcanic when the peak erupted. The eruption was isolated to the area around Scotglen, which was swallowed in ash, lava flows, and pyroclastic gasses. Scotglen lost 104 people, 171 livestock, and 25 buildings in the disaster. The event is forever remembered as the Day of Anguish's Wrath.

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