Winster Castle

Winster Castle (/winster/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical City located in Shademoor Dutchy, Sifate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Winster Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Winster Castle was founded by Jóch Gó̄ 'Boo Nadia' Cúnvoī Hāstär Vúrmbó̄ Waddingham, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Winster Castle has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°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 11°C (51°F). Winster Castle receives an average of 142 cm/y (55 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Winster Castle covers an area of nearly 24 km² (9 mi²), and an average elevation of 2886 m (9468 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Winster Castle was founded durring the early 14th century in fall of the year 1350, by Jóch Gó̄ 'Boo Nadia' Cúnvoī Hāstär Vúrmbó̄ Waddingham. The establishment of Winster Castle was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Winster Castle's construction back out of the project. Jóch Gó̄ 'Boo Nadia' Cúnvoī Hāstär Vúrmbó̄ Waddingham pushed on reguardles, and Winster Castle was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Winster Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Winster 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.

Winster Castle is buildings are located arround a single broad cobblestone mainstreet which forms a clockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. The city sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. The would-be-castle fortifications have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

A look around Winster Castle is like a look into a broken heart. There is no planning, no organization. Everyone here clearly goes about their own thing with little thought to anyone around them who isn’t selling something they need. It’s not malicious. Heads are hung. Eyes are empty. Something truly horrible happened here once upon a time and the city never healed.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Winster 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.

Winster 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.

Winster 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.

Winster 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.

Winster 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.

Winster 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.

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

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

Winster 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 Winster Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Winster 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.

Winster 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.

Winster 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

Winster Castle's town hall 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 Winster Castle there are unidentifiable people in the fog, but it seems to be okay.

The Cat, Common near Winster Castle are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Winster Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves gestures to channel Charm energies of tier 1 via chanting.

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.

Winster Castle Census Data: Year 2000

2128 of Winster Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 114 work in Agriculture
• 477 work as Craftsmen
• 174 work as Merchants
• 325 work as Service Workers
• 218 work as General Laborers
• 83 work as Skilled Laborers
• 310 work as Civil Servants
• 189 work in Cottage Industries
• 120 work as Artists
• 118 work in Produce Industries

3435 of Winster Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 292 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Winster Castle is cursed with recurrent spells of some troublesome disease. The affliction isn’t so fatal as to make living there impossible, but it adds suffering and expense to local lives. The plague might be the product of an ancient curse, the results of long lost toxic remains, or an unavoidable byproduct of whatever industry or purpose justifies the city. It’s probably not overly contagious, but visitors may be in some peril all the same.

Winster Castle has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Winster Castle was attacked by organized criminals with significant wealth and power. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Winster Castle lost 226 people, 214 livestock, and 37 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 176, when members of Winster Castle's militia enacted an operation to transport a specific war machine to a particular depot unharmed. The operation was complicated by a natural disaster interrupted the operation, shattering unit cohesion. The conflict ended with an assault and siege on the depot, which ended in defeat for Winster Castle's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Winster Castle's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History