Kastill Grounds
Kastill Grounds is a city located in the mountainous hills of the Recs Altera, and is the access point for the Three Fortresses, which contain Palatia, Academopolis, and Magobrium. Kastill Grounds, sometimes simply called "Kastill," is lower in elevation and down the mountain from the three fortress cities in a common, shared mountain basin valley. Kastill is home to many city amenities like a market, inn, guildhall, and mayoral residence.
Soldiers on their way to the Military Academy, scholars on their way to the Library of Magic, and crown officials heading toward Palatia all must pass through Kastill Grounds first, which is heavily patrolled and well-kept.
Kastill is ruled by a mayor who is typically a local Ghadjoan human. The current mayor is Ebenezer Acrapulos, and is in charge of supporting the three fortresses, to an extent, managing shipments and ordering goods to be sent up from other locations across Orcli by means of Port Citadel.
Kastill is not accessible from the rocky, coastal cliffs of Ghadjo. It is only accessible from uphill roads ascending from Port Citadel to the north. Therefore, Kastill is greatly defended and patrolled, along with the other forts of Ghadjo.
Demographics
Human majority of many local Ghadjoans, along with many diverse visitors and sizeable minorities of various other races and ethnicities.
Government
The mayor is a director of many things: crown relations, the palace, the military academy, the Library of Magic, and local city needs like infrastructure, businesses, security, and local agriculture.
Defences
Kastill Walls
Industry & Trade
Military training, magic, government
Infrastructure
Stone roads, walls, forts, checkpoints, gates
Districts
Checkgate District: Area around the "Checkgate," the town's checkpoint gate which all incoming traffic must flow through.
Mineshaft District: Area around the "Mineshaft," the town's entrance to the Military Academy of Orcli, which was created by and manned by dwarf workers who can quickly transport large amounts of troops up to the fortress of Academopolis with ease by means of geomancy-powered elevator-like lifts within a cave-like shaft in the mountain.
Ropeway District: Area around the "Ropeway," the town's entrance to the Library of Magic, which was created by and manned by gnome workers who can quickly transport groups of people up to the fortress of Magobrium with ease by means of fulminomancy-propelled cable cars mounted to a metal line which spires through the mountain.
Fallsport District: Area around the "Fallsport," the town's entrance to the Royal Palace of Orcli, which was created by and manned by elf workers who can quickly transport people up to Palatia by means of hydromancy-fueld portation through the King's Cascade, the waterfall which flows from underneath the fortress of Palatia.
Kastill Proper: Area in the center of town, characterized by its many businesses and central location of townhalls, markets, inns, and other city amenities.
History
Originally the Ghadjoan capitol, Kastill was repurposed as the royal capital of Orcli due to its defensible position and central location in relation to the Twells of Orcli. To increase protection, the Three Fortresses were created to insulate and separate military from magic from monarchy.
Points of interest
Kastill Hall, Kastill Walls, Crown & Inn, the Fallsport, the Mineshaft, the Ropeway
Architecture
White, stone walls and stone buildings, some with tiled roofs and cobblestone streets which serpentine up the mountains slightly, convening in a plateau for Kastill Proper, which is walled by the Kastill Walls, rising up from the mountainside beneath.
Geography
Kastill Grounds is a flat city amidst steep mountains, built atop the white Kastill Walls. The surrounding region of the Recs Altera is mediterranean mountains, which are dryer and covered in shrubs
Alternative Name(s)
Kastill Proper, Kastill Basin
Type
Citadel
Population
20,000
Inhabitant Demonym
Kastillian
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