Yarty Castle

Yarty Castle (/yarty/ [Translation Unavailable]) is a subtropical Small City located in Springbeach Dutchy, Midate Kingdom, within the Sylvan.

The name Yarty Castle is derived from the Sylvin language, as Yarty Castle was founded by Lacey Mercer, who was culturaly Sylvin.

Climate

Yarty Castle has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 21°C (69°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 4°C (39°F). Yarty Castle receives an average of 253 cm/y (99 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Yarty Castle covers an area of nearly 11 km² (4 mi²), and an average elevation of 1588 m (5209 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Yarty Castle was founded durring the early 16th century in fall of the year 1530, by Lacey Mercer. The establishment of Yarty Castle was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Lacey Mercer struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Yarty Castle as a prison colony.

Yarty Castle was built using the conventions of Sylvin durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Yarty Castle is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Yarty Castle is buildings are arranged arround a network of premissive flagstone streets which form a diagonal shaped grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city is the proud owner of a proper castle-style stone wall complete with all of the trimmings. It has towers, a moat, gatehouses, drawbridges, and even merticulationsshortsizeleadershipname.. Yarty Castle's perhapse unnessisarily well built defences 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.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Yarty 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 god, all preforming the same rituals to bless and anoint building,s streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holysymbols is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This city certainly loves its god.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

Yarty 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.

Yarty 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.

Yarty 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.

Yarty 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.

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

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

Yarty 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 Yarty Castle's natural decorations nor waterways.

Yarty 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.

Yarty 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.

Yarty 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

Yarty Castle's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is recurring in Yarty Castle.

The Herd Animal, Elk (Giant) near Yarty Castle are known to be quite timid.

Yarty Castle's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sex to channel Transmutation energies of tier 2 via mimery.

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.

Yarty Castle Census Data: Year 2000

958 of Yarty Castle's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 59 work in Agriculture
• 212 work as Craftsmen
• 75 work as Merchants
• 148 work as Service Workers
• 96 work as General Laborers
• 37 work as Skilled Laborers
• 145 work as Civil Servants
• 87 work in Cottage Industries
• 49 work as Artists
• 50 work in Produce Industries

1620 of Yarty Castle's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 193 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Yarty Castle is reliant on an industry or product that has toxic or negative side-effects as part of its production. The good is extremely valuable, or the community is extremely desperate, and the side effects are endured as a necessary evil. It may be that their neighbors or lord are forcing them to produce the good so that they aren’t the ones suffering the cost.

Yarty Castle is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami granted the town a great harvest. One of Yarty Castle's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History