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A not-so-sleepy village of germanic influence. Name translates to Clockwork Town.

Description

Nestled in the mountains lays Uhrwerkstadt, a village full of varied and skilled craftsmen. Simple architecture stands out with white plaster and exposed dark beams. Clocks and dials are a constant decoration adorned throughout the city. They are often worked into buildings, ranging simple paintings to animated cuckoos and everything in between imaginable. The surrounding area is forested with some sections of grassy plains offering beautiful views.

Zeithalle, the proper name of the Town Hall, lays at the center of town and is home to the ruling aristocrat. It is set on a large, round courtyard that holds an interesting secret that is hidden in plain sight and often overlooked, especially during busy events such as the Inventor’s Triumph. All along the border of the front courtyard are mathematically placed roman numerals and the steeple of Zeithalle serves as a gnomon, effectively making the entire front courtyard an accurate sundial.

The town's workers are very fond of using their hands to create and the most skilled have fashioned into existence wonderful items. For example, the finest articulated armor is often attributed to the workers of Uhrwerkstadt, and is so expertly crafted that it can often be used as a base for prosthesis. Their handy work brings them a great deal of pride (and money), but other work still exists such as the farming of goats, sheep, and cows and the mining of various ores and gems. Some of the best bakers call Uhrwerkstadt home, even though it is an extra expense to import ingredients that cannot be grown locally.

In contrast to the Capital, this is a far less busy locale with a deceptive population. The crowds are hardly anything resembling the actual amount of people, as most remain busy indoors with their projects. Others are out in the world at large to acquire materials, in order to sell them to the makers and crafters for their projects.

History

Uhrwerkstadt was established by a Maestro that focused on craftsmen, and so Zeithalle was built with the masterful engineering of not only an analog clock of glass in the tower window, from which the guild master can look down at the square, but the tower of the building itself was a gnomon for the sundial built into the bricks of the courtyard before it. Over time the guild founded by the Maestro was challenged and the guild of merchants took its place. Their wealth made buying out competitors easy and thus it has held this position to this day.

Culture

Religion

Skaldic

Economy

Population

~10000

Main Exports

• Refined ores
• Metals
• Clocks
• Replacement Limbs