Boke Loshvèm

Boke Loshvèm (/loʃ/ /vɛm/ [cathedral] [little]) is a subtropical City located in Èmèj̼epà County, Niylili Provence, within the Daland.

The name Boke Loshvèm is derived from the Sylvin language, as Boke Loshvèm was founded by Máldes, who was culturaly Tauran.

Climate

Boke Loshvèm has a yearly average temperature of 20°C (68°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Boke Loshvèm receives an average of 255 cm/y (100 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Boke Loshvèm covers an area of nearly 36 km² (14 mi²), and an average elevation of 1654 m (5426 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Boke Loshvèm was founded durring the late 14th century in summer of the year 1287, by Máldes. The establishment of Boke Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm was built using the conventions of Tauran durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Boke Loshvèm is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Boke Loshvèm is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of restrictive cobblestone streets which form hexical paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The city is the proud owner of a proper castle-style stone wall complete with all of the trimmings. It has towers, a moat, gatehouses, drawbridges, and even merticulationsshortsizeleadershipname.. The city's perhapse unnessisarily well built defences have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the city.

Boke Loshvèm is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This city is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

Boke Loshvèm possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

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

Boke Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Boke Loshvèm's parks.

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

Boke Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm has a Hall of Slayers, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

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

Boke Loshvèm has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Boke Loshvèm 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 City. Boke Loshvèm's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Boke Loshvèm possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Boke Loshvèm has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Boke Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm's natural decorations nor waterways.

Boke Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm 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 Loshvèm's locals are divided into several castes. They may be organized by social role, by imputed nobility of birth, by ethnic origins, or any other dividing principle, but they cannot imagine any other way of organizing themselves. A hierarchy of castes is not inevitable, but there will be social and legal limits applied to ensure that each caste remains fixed in its function. The outside world may or may not respect these distinctions when dealing with the locals.

Boke Loshvèm's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is short in Boke Loshvèm.

The Skinwraith near Boke Loshvèm are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Boke Loshvèm's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Illusion energies of tier 2 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Boke Loshvèm Census Data: Year 2000

3284 of Boke Loshvèm's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 175 work in Agriculture
• 754 work as Craftsmen
• 262 work as Merchants
• 490 work as Service Workers
• 325 work as General Laborers
• 127 work as Skilled Laborers
• 521 work as Civil Servants
• 282 work in Cottage Industries
• 181 work as Artists
• 167 work in Produce Industries

5148 of Boke Loshvèm's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 172 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Boke Loshvèm is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

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History

The the a scythe of Transmutation, an a scythe imbued with notable amounts of Transmutation energies was created in Boke Loshvèm by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History