Aë-vaza Bî

Aë-vaza Bî (/ˈaë/ /ˈvaza/ [exempt] [friend; acquaintance]) is a subtropical Small Town located in the Mèhcebî Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Aë-vaza Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Aë-vaza Bî was founded by Gúdien Glèj, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Aë-vaza Bî has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 17°C (62°F). Aë-vaza Bî receives an average of 250 cm/y (98 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Aë-vaza Bî covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 7492 m (-18369 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Aë-vaza Bî was founded durring the early 15th century in winter of the year 1432, by Gúdien Glèj. The establishment of Aë-vaza Bî was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Aë-vaza Bî's construction back out of the project. Gúdien Glèj pushed on reguardles, and Aë-vaza Bî was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Aë-vaza Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Aë-vaza Bî is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Aë-vaza Bî is buildings are built arround a single crampt cobblestone mainstreet which forms a counterclockwise spiral to give the town a over all circular shape. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks and fences to provide minimal protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Astonishigly, the somewhat suffishent are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

A look around Aë-vaza Bî makes it abundantly clear the town suffered something horrible some time ago. It’s a quiet town filled with closed scriptoriums, people quietly yet dejectedly reading in isolated places around town, and the occasional book laying in a heap of garbage.

Civic Infrastructure

Aë-vaza Bî has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Aë-vaza Bî.

Aë-vaza Bî 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.

Aë-vaza Bî has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

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

Aë-vaza Bî has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Aë-vaza Bî 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.

Cultural Notes

Aë-vaza Bî's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Aë-vaza Bî birds speak prophesy.

The Achaierai near Aë-vaza Bî are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Aë-vaza Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves destroying a prepared ritual vessel to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 3 via oath swearing.

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.

Aë-vaza Bî Census Data: Year 2000

278 of Aë-vaza Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 60 work as Craftsmen
• 21 work as Merchants
• 44 work as Service Workers
• 27 work as General Laborers
• 7 work as Skilled Laborers
• 46 work as Civil Servants
• 26 work in Cottage Industries
• 11 work as Artists
• 15 work in Produce Industries

653 of Aë-vaza Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 28 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Aë-vaza Bî is cursed with recurrent spells of some troublesome disease. The affliction isn’t so fatal as to make living there impossible, but it adds suffering and expense to local lives. The plague might be the product of an ancient curse, the results of long lost toxic remains, or an unavoidable byproduct of whatever industry or purpose justifies the city. It’s probably not overly contagious, but visitors may be in some peril all the same.

POI

History

The the a greataxe of Augury, an a greataxe imbued with potent amounts of Augury energies was created in Aë-vaza Bî by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History