Kingdom of Goblet Muse
Home to an ever changing future in a harsh environment.
(Image is from movie i will replace with art later)
This city has been around for centuries. Built near the border between another land and Briar Valley. It remains on the Briar Valley side.
History & Issues
The History is entangled with the conflict this city was made to alleviate. The very centuries old war is now just a bitter rivalry of Goblins & Faes. The very land the city rests on was war torn land and holds a lot of good or bad memories with the elder residents. The ground is completely dried of nutrients as punishment faes & other faefolk sapped it all away. Even with these goblins and other Briar Valley folk still live there and rather adept then move on to better place.
City System and Food
Food in Goblet Muse was very hard to come by as none can be grown so all of it is imported from the other land it's near not Briar Valley at all. The Food system works like a food bank. All citizens must register at the main family affair building so how many people are in the city,how many are households,how many children,and how many elderly. Once this is all counted on the 1st of each month large bulk package is delivered to each house of food for the entire month. All residents must have 2 refrigerators,2 freezers,and appliances to make ice if refrigerators don't. There are events to teach new families how to use and preserve their month long rations as they are carefully portioned for their family.
The city works on having a King and 5 council members who are tasked with keeping up different things the city needs. Absolutely no help from the outside they do not want any influence from the Draconias to ever be within the city. The police heavily enforce this by any mention or depictions of them is a crime and will get fined or jailed for it.
There is little room for extra food. There are only two chances for this. The single restaurant in all of Goblet Muse which opens once a month at the end of it and the citizens ball held in the middle of month yet isn't for children as its only place to get alcoholic drinks. While this all sounds awful the citizens have adapted to this controlled food system as surprising as it is freeish and only requires an adult of the household to work a job for the city or a city assigned one to other jobs.
King & Others
Sigurd's entire purpose is to be this symbol of peace as he is of goblin & fae mixed birth. A lot of people both in Goblet Muse and outside find it horrible that the city tried to ease centuries old tension between two species by having an innocent child born who's gone through so much pain & suffering growing up.(More on this will be in Sigurd's backstory post)
The goblin family known as the Farscrew have been the ruling power of the city for a long time. Currently King Sigurd is seen in a split light by his citizens. Most of the system in place was done by his father who recently gave kingship to Sigurd to retire from public life. His son now is faced with being seen as a tyrant or savior.
Education
The city has one school for all children and youths. From age 4 to 18 you can go to this school and are taught very limited subjects because the city puts so much money into the food system the Education one is just a joke. Most times none of the teen youths want to attend and rebel quickly due to how awful it is. Most decide to start working at 14 of age and are on their way to having their own household by 18.
To deal with these issues abit Sigurd has experts of dance,art,and music he convinced to come to Goblet Muse to teach lessons for youths and pays for 10 youths lessons per 3 months to help them obtain or enhance some sort of respectable skill that they can use for future and not just be worker bees.
The Future
Goblet Muse is a far more decent city than it used to be. Alot of the elderly to adults raised by them still hold grudges towards faes but the middle age and younger citizens are more open for change. While only a few people with fae blood mixed in them can call this city home, it's changing. This city cursed with an eternal autumn is going to possibly be different. Maybe if Sigurd reaches out for help..