Brir Zögie̜ Vrët

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët (/brir/ /ˈzo˞gje̜/ [selfish] [parent]) is a subtropical Town located in the Qujusukoga Moot of the Viceroyalty of Rosid.

The name Brir Zögie̜ Vrët is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Brir Zögie̜ Vrët was founded by Bhorlis Vimeni, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët has a yearly average temperature of 14°C (57°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 23°C (73°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 5°C (41°F). Brir Zögie̜ Vrët receives an average of 87 cm/y (34 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Brir Zögie̜ Vrët covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 5984 m (19632 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët was founded durring the early 12th century in fall of the year 1114, by Bhorlis Vimeni. The establishment of Brir Zögie̜ Vrët 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.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Brir Zögie̜ Vrët is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of narrow baked earthen 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 town is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. Brir Zögie̜ Vrët's exceptionaly well made fortifications 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 look around Brir Zögie̜ Vrët makes it abundantly clear the town suffered something horrible some time ago. It's as if the town itself is depressed. Smiles are few, cheer is nowhere to be had. Everyone quietly goes about their daily business not looking anyone in the eye.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët 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.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët 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.

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

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët 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 Town. Brir Zögie̜ Vrët's grid is powered by an arcane means.

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

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët 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

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, dramatic use of columns, and a preference for blank walls. This design ethos extended to re-imagining earlier styles of structure to create them anew, with a similar overall look and feel to one another..

In Brir Zögie̜ Vrët hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Urdefhan near Brir Zögie̜ Vrët are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves destroying a prepared ritual vessel to channel Necromancy energies of tier 1 via throat singing.

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.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët Census Data: Year 2000

383 of Brir Zögie̜ Vrët's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 89 work as Craftsmen
• 28 work as Merchants
• 65 work as Service Workers
• 35 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 53 work as Civil Servants
• 37 work in Cottage Industries
• 19 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

786 of Brir Zögie̜ Vrët's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 87 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët has a conflict with a neighboring community. This usually isn't part of a larger war, but is instead a personal animosity between them. It may be the community has suffered at their enemy's hands, or they may have been the ones applying the suffering. Constant low-level skirmishes and trouble making go on between the two.

Brir Zögie̜ Vrët has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

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History

The the a bow of Summoning, an a bow imbued with great amounts of Summoning energies was created near Bōk-hō Vrët by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History