Winch

Winch (/wɪnʧ / [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Town located in Lochley Dutchy, Poxeiquian County, within the Norwick Principality.

The name Winch is derived from the Sylvin language, as Winch was founded by Strekka Trëmesm Ashbee, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Winch has a yearly average temperature of 20°C (68°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Winch receives an average of 207 cm/y (81 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Winch covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 2226 m (7303 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Winch was founded durring the early 14th century in fall of the year 1341, by Strekka Trëmesm Ashbee. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Strekka Trëmesm Ashbee.

Winch was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Winch is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Winch is buildings are built arround a single crampt gravel mainstreet which forms a counterclockwise spiral to give the town a over all circular shape. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks, spikes, and fences to provide some protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Winch 's minimaly adiquite has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

Right off the bat Winch hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Winch 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.

Winch 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.

Winch 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.

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

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

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

Winch 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

Winch 's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Winch rainbows form quite often above the Town.

The Grimstalker near Winch are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Winch 's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves line dance to channel Necromancy energies of tier 1 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Winch Census Data: Year 2000

375 of Winch 's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 24 work in Agriculture
• 84 work as Craftsmen
• 31 work as Merchants
• 64 work as Service Workers
• 34 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 53 work as Civil Servants
• 35 work in Cottage Industries
• 18 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

795 of Winch 's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 74 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Winch 's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

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History

Winch used to be more prosperous, but something happened relatively long ago that left it a shrunken shadow of its former self. If the settlement is prosperous, the locals often lament how much more they could have had. If the settlement is not prosperous, the locals blame their ill fortunes on that event. Reminders of this better time can be found in many places within Winch .

The the a handaxe of Invocation, an a handaxe imbued with potent amounts of Invocation energies was created in Winch by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

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