Small City: Boke Ksdihej

Boke Ksdihej

Boke Ksdihej
Example Tauran architecture.
StateTetburland
ProvenceBombuqíh Region
RegionNěpzæhi-yìmǐ Heathland
Founded1081
Community LeaderLord Common Eurypterids
Area19 km2 (7 mi2)
Average Yearly Temp30°C (86°F)
Average Elevation3098 m (10164 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation104 cm/y (40 in/y)
Population4684
Population Density246 people per km2 (669 people per mi2)
Town AuraAbjuration
Naming
Native nameBoke Ksdihej
PronunciationKsdi /heʤ/
Direct Translation[lamb; victim] [shooting star]
Translation[Not Yet Translated]

Boke Ksdihej (Ksdi /heʤ/ [lamb; victim] [shooting star]) is a subtropical Small City located in the Bombuqíh Region of the Tetburland.

The name Boke Ksdihej is derived from the Sylvin language, as Boke Ksdihej was founded by Rä̂fér Vúō̄s 'Belle Cayla' Dawm Cúnvéch Mp̪vēshī, who was culturaly Tauran.

Climate

Boke Ksdihej has a yearly average temperature of 30°C (86°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a blistering 34°C (93°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a warm 27°C (80°F). Boke Ksdihej receives an average of 104 cm/y (40 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Boke Ksdihej covers an area of nearly 19 km2 (7 mi2), and an average elevation of 3098 m (10164 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Boke Ksdihej was founded durring the late 12th century in winter of the year 1081, by Rä̂fér Vúō̄s 'Belle Cayla' Dawm Cúnvéch Mp̪vēshī. The establishment of Boke Ksdihej suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Boke Ksdihej was built using the conventions of Tauran durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Boke Ksdihej is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature plaster covered brick construction taking the shape of large simple gemometric shapes which ate then embelished with decorative features, but retain their simple shapes in spite of the added features such as pillars, faccaddes, and covered walkways. The blocky nature gives a general impression of extreem age, as if each structure has existed since time immemorial.

Boke Ksdihej is is constructed arround a series of restrictive paverstone mainstreets which form concentric circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to each other at varrious points. The city is protected by a well-crafted cobblestone fence tall enough to provide adiquite cover for defenders to fire from, but no more than that. Boke Ksdihej's frontieer-style defences has sufferd soem light damage, reducing its function a little in some spots, but could almsot certainly preform as expected... Though some of the worse spots could lead to the loss of defenders lives if attackers identified the weaknesses ahead of time.

A quick look in any direction shows Boke Ksdihej is filled with vices. There are many taverns, brothels are advertising their services on the streets, cardsharks are plying their illicit trade within public squairs, and every shop has at least three signs advertising various sales on goods. That alone wouldn’t be too noticeable, if it wasn’t just so omnipresent and overwhelmingly how the people of this city live.

Civic Infrastructure

Boke Ksdihej has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Boke Ksdihej has an Office of Civil Groundskeeping, which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the construction and upkeep up of all plant life, water features, and other natural decorations within Boke Ksdihej. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Boke Ksdihej's parks.

Boke Ksdihej has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Boke Ksdihej.

Boke Ksdihej has a government-funded child care program, overseen by the local Department of Nursemaids, which is responsible for providing childcare to working-class citizens according to local ordinances.

Boke Ksdihej 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.

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

Boke Ksdihej has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Boke Ksdihej has a Highwayman's Guild, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

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

Boke Ksdihej possesses a Galvanic Power Grid, which brings galvanic current to most if not all buildings in town, and permits a great many consumer goods to function within the Small City. Boke Ksdihej's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Boke Ksdihej's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Boke Ksdihej has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands. They are not to be confused with the Office of Civil Groundskeeping as they do not hold authority over nor responsibility for Boke Ksdihej's natural decorations nor waterways.

Boke Ksdihej has a Guild of Roadworkers, who are responsible for maintaining the roadways and public paths within town. They also have the duty of enforcing all civil laws relating to the roadways.

Boke Ksdihej 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.

Boke Ksdihej has a public septic system, which allows its citizens to have indoor bathrooms. The septic system is overseen by the League of Sewerkeepers, who posses the legal authority to enforce all laws relating to the septic system, and are also tasked with its maintenance and upkeep.

Cultural Notes

Boke Ksdihej's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used has a sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation. The primary facade of its buildings often featured a series of set backs that create a stepped outline. Low-relief decorative panels can be found at entrances, around windows, along roof edges or as string courses. It was best known for its use of smooth finish building materials such as stucco, concrete block, glazed brick or mosaic tile. Decorative details can incorporate various artistic or exotic motifs to suit the building's function or the architect's whim. Chevrons, zigzags, and other geometrical motifs are common forms of ornament.

In Boke Ksdihej during thunderstorms, with each flash of lightning, everyone sees different monsters from the corner of their eyes.

The Fire Crab, Small near Boke Ksdihej are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Boke Ksdihej's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves ritual combat to channel Conjuration energies of tier 3 via chanting.

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.

Agriculture

  • Dairy Farmers: 9
  • Farmers: 13
  • Farm Laborer: 27
  • Hunters: 16
  • Milk Maids: 12
  • Ranchers: 5
  • Ranch Hands: 12
  • Shepherds: 12
    • Farmland: 18923 m2
    • Cattle and Similar Creatures: 1171
    • Poultry: 14052
    • Swine: 936
    • Sheep: 46
    • Goats: 9
    • Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 468

Craftsmen

  • Arms and Toolmakers: 9
  • Blacksmiths: 10
  • Bookbinders: 6
  • Buckle-makers: 6
  • Cabinetmakers: 10
  • Candlemakers: 13
  • Carpenters: 13
  • Clothmakers: 13
  • Coach and Harness Makers: 5
  • Coopers: 10
  • Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 6
  • Copyists: 4
  • Cutlers: 3
  • Fabricworkers: 9
  • Farrier: 26
  • Furriers: 3
  • Glassworkers: 15
  • Gunsmiths: 10
  • Harness-Makers: 4
  • Hatters: 9
  • Hosiery Workers: 3
  • Jewelers: 5
  • Leatherwrights: 11
  • Locksmiths: 4
  • Matchstick makers: 7
  • Musical Instrument Makers: 6
  • Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 6
  • Paper Workers: 6
  • Plasterers: 6
  • Pursemakers: 8
  • Roofers: 5
  • Ropemakers: 4
  • Rugmakers: 4
  • Saddlers: 9
  • Scabbardmakers: 10
  • Scalemakers: 5
  • Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 3
  • Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 4
  • Shoemakers: 4
  • Soap and Tallow Workers: 15
  • Tailors: 21
  • Tanners: 5
  • Upholsterers: 6
  • Watchmakers: 6
  • Weavers: 16
  • Whitesmiths: 3

Merchants

  • Adventuring Goods Retellers: 3
  • Arcana Sellers: 3
  • Beer-Sellers: 6
  • Booksellers: 7
  • Butchers: 12
  • Chandlers: 12
  • Chicken Butchers: 11
  • Entrepreneurs: 4
  • Fine Clothiers: 11
  • Fishmongers: 11
  • Florists: 2
  • Potion Sellers: 8
  • Resellers: 17
  • Spice Merchants: 6
  • Wine-sellers: 9
  • Wheelwright: 7
  • Woodsellers: 4

Service workers

  • Bakers: 24
  • Barbers: 19
  • Coachmen: 6
  • Cooks: 20
  • Doctors: 8
  • Gamekeepers: 7
  • Grooms: 4
  • Hairdressers: 16
  • Healers: 13
  • Housekeepers: 13
  • Housemaids: 26
  • House Stewards: 14
  • Inns: 4
  • Laundry maids: 8
  • Maidservants: 14
  • Nursery Maids: 8
  • Pastrycooks: 15
  • Restaurateur: 18
  • Tavern Keepers: 19

Specialized Laborer

  • Ashworkers: 6
  • Bleachers: 4
  • Chemical Workers: 2
  • Coal Heavers: 9
  • In-Town Couriers: 10
  • Long Haul Couriers: 10
  • Dockyard Workers: 9
  • Gas Workers: 2
  • Hay Merchants: 3
  • Leech Collectors: 12
  • Millers: 11
  • Miners: 9
  • Oilmen and Polishers: 7
  • Postmen: 9
  • Pure Finder: 5
  • Skinners: 15
  • Sugar Refiners: 2
  • Tosher: 7
  • Warehousemen: 15
  • Watercarriers: 10
  • Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 16

Skilled Laborers

  • Accountants: 5
  • Alchemist: 6
  • Clerk: 9
  • Dentists: 4
  • Educators: 12
  • Engineers: 6
  • Gardeners: 4
  • Mages: 3
  • Plumbers: 4
  • Pharmacist: 5
  • Professors: 2
  • Scientists: 3
  • Wizards: 2

Civil Servants

  • Adventurers: 4
  • Bankers: 6
  • Civil Clerks: 10
  • Civic Iudex: 5
  • Consultants: 2
  • Exorcist: 10
  • Fixers: 5
  • Kami Clerk: 9
  • Landlords: 9
  • Lawyers: 5
  • Legend Keepers: 7
  • Militia Officers: 39
  • Monks, Monastic: 15
  • Monks, Civic: 13
  • Historian, Oral: 11
  • Historian, Textual: 5
  • Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 10
  • Priests: 19
  • Rangers: 6
  • Rat Catchers: 6
  • Scholars: 7
  • Spiritualist: 8
  • Slayers: 2
  • Storytellers: 15
  • Military Officers: 15

Cottage Industries

  • Brewers: 13
  • Comfort Services: 17
  • Enchanters: 5
  • Herbalists: 5
  • Jaminators: 16
  • Needleworkers: 16
  • Potters: 8
  • Preserve Makers: 14
  • Quilters: 6
  • Seamsters: 20
  • Spinners: 13
  • Tinker: 5
  • Weaver: 13

Artists

  • Actors: 5
  • Architects: 1
  • Bards: 7
  • Costumers: 2
  • Dancers: 5
  • Drafters: 3
  • Engravers: 3
  • Fine Furniture Carpenters: 2
  • Glaziers: 4
  • Inlayers: 4
  • Musicians: 13
  • Painters, Art: 2
  • Playwrights: 5
  • Sculptors, Art: 4
  • Wood Carvers: 15
  • Writers: 17

Produce Industries

  • Butter Churners: 17
  • Canners: 14
  • Cheesmakers: 14
  • Ice Merchants: 2
  • Millers: 9
  • Picklers: 7
  • Smokers: 6
  • Stockmakers: 5
  • Tobacconists: 7
  • Tallowmakers: 11

1668 of Boke Ksdihej's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

2876 of Boke Ksdihej's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 140 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Boke Ksdihej is known for its unusual rock formations.

POI

History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Boke Ksdihej is seriously plagued with raiders. One or more groups of persistent plunderers are hitting the community repeatedly, and they lack the necessary resources to fend them off or protect all their holdings.

The the a bracelet of Augury, an a bracelet imbued with great amounts of Augury energies was created in Boke Kriēlíhnli̊ by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History