Caversivan Castle

Unlike postclassical Earth, **Caversivan castles** are much superior enough to make life in these look like an episode of *MTV Cribs*, even if it's not about feasts and festivals since they're all bright, dry and fragrant fortresses/residential complex hybrids with no vermin and diseases. No matter if you're a ruling class member or not, you would indulge in rich wine and daily hot baths, and there's a lot of comfort and/or relaxation other than going to churches and giving humane ways to enemies.

## Bathing

Caversiva love taking baths as much as Earthicans do. Bathing is common, thanks to clean water access, especially for the lower class. Plumbing also is safe from being non-existent by the Drastians. Modern bathtubs (made out of thermoformed acrylic, porcelain-enameled steel, fiberglass-reinforced polyester, or porcelain-enameled cast iron) are installed in bathroom, which would also come with curtains so that it can define the words "hygienic" and "privacy."

## Chapels

Every castle has an onsite chapel so the lords and/or ladies could attend morning mass. In fact, along with the great hall, the chapel is the defining structure of the castle. Everything else was constructed around those two primary rooms. If you live in a particularly fancy castle, the chapel would be two stories so that the lords and/or ladies and their families, including "Servant of the Month" recipients and some lucky chosen servants could sit in the upper level and literally look down on other servants.

## Cooking

Thanks to microwave ovens, George Foreman grills and other modern cookware/bakeware technology saved by the autochthons, cooking with open flames is all but no longer done (unless hearths and stone kitchen rooms are to be done upon).

## Diligence

To counteract the sin of sloth, lords and ladies aren't only responsible for governing lands (which can include regularly make a bunch of difficult decisions and engaging in fierce political negotiations), but they're well known for helping servants if they're available so that they're quick enough to ensure that meals are prepared well enough and/or making sure castles won't fall into disrepair.

That's the reason why castles are now reducing servant numbers to avoid upkeeps and overpopulation. Servants only do the standard housekeeping duties, because lords and ladies are more diligent enough than their Earth counterparts to attend every whim of their own, even their own families.

## Drinking

Monarchs aren't allowed to drink alcoholic drinks. Even nobles and castle servants aren't to drink alcohol either. Instead, they would drink water and non-alcoholic drinks (fruit juices, mocktails, iced teas, milks, ginger beers, etc.).

## Dungeons

Dungeons are all in a Disney-like treatment because many lords and/or ladies wanted to treat criminals, political opponents, or really anyone who happened to offend them at any particular moment after imprisoning them as humanely as possible (due to the lessons of human rights and welfare to be done in a more fairer way and from medieval times). Otherwise, only the worst criminals would've been tortured in grotesque ways, depending on the judge's sentence and on how sadistic their nature would be, but, due to their nature on how to be less sadistic than the latter, not routinely.

Since there was pest control, there isn't a way to be letting the prisoner be eaten alive from the inside out by hungry rats since they knew that this rodent species is responsible for causing plague outbreaks.

## Feasts

Feasts and festivals happen every day in castles, just like on Earth. For cooks, when they prepare feasts, they also have the same feast food as the nobles as reward for their hard work. Meanwhile, lords and/or ladies of the house would entertain their guests at a long wooden table with people seated according to their importance. The important people would be seated at the head of the table, even the servants would be seated on the wooden table too with them as it's all because of social equality as long as they're selected to have a "Servant of the Month" award while others are tucked away to the back with some consolation meals.

## Flooring

Castles are no reeky stone garbage heaps, because of their flooring being clean every day by lords, ladies, families and servants. Pair that with rushes, reeds and herbs being spread all across the castle floors, and that will make castles more fragrant and clean. That also comes with botanical gardens and reed farms so they can switch out old rushes for clean ones a bit more easily.

Beer, grease, fragments, bone, spittle, animal excrement and other nasty stuff are regularly cleaned, so basically, whenever you went in the castle, you're thinking that it's actually like a walk in the park.

## Heat & Light

Castles in Caversiva have better heating and lighting than Earth ones, plus they have insulation systems. They're designed both as fortresses and dwellings at the same time, so everything is made of various strong building materials, especially a lot of windows to let in more sunlight. Every castle resident (like lords and ladies) would have nicer rooms with fireplaces and windows.

Even in the servants' quarters, despite being located in the lower inferior of the castles, they have fireplaces and basement windows so that they wouldn't have to be frigid, lightless warrens that may become breeding grounds for diseases that thrive in the damp cold.

## Meals

Meals were taken in the great hall of a castle, and servants who were tucked all the way in the back of the table have consolation meals -- and in other words, your status only affects where you get to sit while what you get to eat doesn't matter what you are. Lords and ladies, including their families and guests, would be served gourmet dishes with exotic spices and lavish ingredients.

Servants meanwhile have consolation meals -- stews, pies and snacks made with exotic spices and lavish ingredients, served with side dishes and desserts (making servants' meals figuratively and literally but very slightly better than what lords, ladies and their families and guests would eat). Peasants are also allowed to visit (but not allowed to live without permission) and are counted as guests, yet the only requirement is that they might at least have a good behavior.

Peasants who work the land for lords and ladies can also work the land for themselves and many others so they can feed themselves and their families with ample food supplies.

## Pest Control

Thanks to modern traps and modern pest control methods, rats are less likely to enter a castle, meaning that they aren't everywhere on every castle anymore. In case of a rat, people would either catch it or report that to pest control without having to accept rat infestation as a part of normal life. They wouldn't use rats as a means of torture since they knew that they actually carried a plague that eradicated around half of medieval Europe's population.

## Residents

There's a law that servants would be only one per each occupation per three family members due to their lessons from direct contact diseases. Also, a lord or lady's family must have only one castle per one generation since castles are readily built cheaper with rent unless it's by choice. Servants too would serve the needs of a castle family and on each other.

## Sanitation

Thanks to plumbing, running water and flush toilets are more possible. Toilets also have sewer connections and castles also come with sewage treatment plants, and they even have exhaust fans. With running water, baths for all classes are made possible so that servants would no longer smell stinky. On top of that, the servants have available medicine like lords and nobles could since they're effectively made cheaper.

Your average castle dweller won't be intensely ill so they won't have to do home remedies or pray for their recovery almost all the time, thanks to those lessons learned from medieval castles from Earth, and even by autochthons' help.

## Toiletry

Privacy is thankfully a thing in castles, even if you didn't own a place. So when you had to run off to the bathroom to do your necessaries, you'd be doing it on modern flush toilets rather than long wooden benches with several holes cut into them. Toilet cubicles also are provided to ensure that you would have some privacy while not embarrassing your friends, coworkers, and really anyone else who happened to walk by.

Again, there's always flushing, thanks to the flush toilet technology saved from its permanent deletion by the Drastians. So your business would just drop down into the sewage system.

## Work Days

Thanks to the lack of alcohol, servants would wake up just in time to start a day. Electricity was sadly non-existent so sunlight, torches, candles and lanterns are crucially important. Castles are bright places, even through the night. So the servants are able to sleep well so they won't have to capitalize on every second of daylight, just to get their work done.

Even if you don't work in a castle, unless you're wealthy, odds are you work as a merchant, a craftsman or a laborer, so you might have to be up at the crack of dawn if you expected to make any money.