Waring Castle

Waring Castle (/ˈwɛrɪŋ/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small City located in the Qegian Provence of the Hobben.

The name Waring Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Waring Castle was founded by Mithny Crossan, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Waring Castle has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 15°C (59°F). Waring Castle receives an average of 281 cm/y (110 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Waring Castle covers an area of nearly 10 km² (4 mi²), and an average elevation of 1296 m (4251 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Waring Castle was founded durring the late 16th century in spring of the year 1467, by Mithny Crossan. The establishment of Waring Castle was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Mithny Crossan electing to pay people to resettle in Waring Castle.

Waring Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Waring Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Waring Castle is was constructed arround several crampt worn bedrock mainstreets which cross one another at certain axies, with smaller streets branching off of them to premit acess to the many buildings deeper into the road network. The overall fashion is remenessent of a circulatory system, or other organic construct, and is quite effishent in its design. The city rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. The millitarily questionable fortifications 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.

Waring Castle has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Waring Castle’s streets. In spite of this, quite a few people can be seen reading and the city has an abundance of libraries. It’s quite clear the community values education.

Civic Infrastructure

Waring Castle possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

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

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

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

Waring 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.

Waring 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.

Waring 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.

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

Waring 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 Waring Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Waring 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.

Waring 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.

Waring 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

Waring Castle's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, dramatic use of columns, and a preference for blank walls. This design ethos extended to re-imagining earlier styles of structure to create them anew, with a similar overall look and feel to one another..

In Waring Castle snow is warm to the touch and does not melt within city limits. Also it only happens during summer.

The Mole near Waring Castle are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Waring Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Illusion energies of tier 2 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.

Waring Castle Census Data: Year 2000

817 of Waring Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 49 work in Agriculture
• 183 work as Craftsmen
• 69 work as Merchants
• 129 work as Service Workers
• 82 work as General Laborers
• 31 work as Skilled Laborers
• 121 work as Civil Servants
• 71 work in Cottage Industries
• 41 work as Artists
• 41 work in Produce Industries

1485 of Waring Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 95 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Waring Castle produces some wonderful cultural artifact or trains famous artists. The product might be some exceptional cloth, or artistic luxury good, or the scholarly fruits of a famous academy. Trained artists might be students of a particular school, or the apprentices of the current masters of a long artistic tradition who dwell here.

The center of Waring Castle's town square was built around an ancient standing stone.

POI

History

The the a quiver of Charm, an a quiver imbued with great amounts of Charm energies was created in Wantsum Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History