Bûkûku Kichyâ

Bûkûku Kichyâ (/ʊ/ /ˈkicɑ/ [coral] [sorrow]) is a temperate Town located in Slzilenrud Parish, Àsu̹ Ûyu̹ Empire, within the Warrenese Shogunate.

The name Bûkûku Kichyâ is derived from the Wareneese language, as Bûkûku Kichyâ was founded by Belegiel Garêyêv, who was culturaly Wareneese.

Climate

Bûkûku Kichyâ has a yearly average temperature of 8°C (46°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold -10°C (14°F). Bûkûku Kichyâ receives an average of 230 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Bûkûku Kichyâ covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4512 m (14803 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Bûkûku Kichyâ was founded durring the early 16th century in winter of the year 1507, by Belegiel Garêyêv. The establishment of Bûkûku Kichyâ was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Belegiel Garêyêv struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Bûkûku Kichyâ as a prison colony.

Bûkûku Kichyâ was built using the conventions of Wareneese durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Bûkûku Kichyâ is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature waddle and daub construction with good timber frames and a stone foundation protected by thatched or shingled rooves. Most buildings with second floors are built in such a way as to overhang into the streets on the upper floors for more space, as building size seems to be the primary indicator of wealth within the community. Most buildings are not decorated with any integral features, but instead use ivy, flowers, and other natural elements in planters of on trellices to breathe life into the structure they grow upon.

Bûkûku Kichyâ is buildings are arranged arround a network of premissive baked earthen streets which form a grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The town posesses a fortified albit thin wall of querried stone. This wall posesses most of the features of a castle wall, though it is constructed from cheeper inferior stone. It would pose a minor chalange for an attacking army, though it's clear the wall's true purpose is to crush the hopes of bandits and marauders. Unfortuantly, these failry decent fortifications are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Bûkûku Kichyâ is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the town 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. There’s a patern to the panic. It’s not easy to see, and no one quite agrees on what it is, but the locals know and operate under this pattern. It shapes everything they do, and you feel as if you’ve almost worked it out only for some small detail to devastate your theory every time you try and comprehend it.

Civic Infrastructure

Bûkûku Kichyâ possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

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

Bûkûku Kichyâ 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.

Bûkûku Kichyâ 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.

Bûkûku Kichyâ 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.

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

Bûkûku Kichyâ possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

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

Bûkûku Kichyâ 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.

Bûkûku Kichyâ 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

Bûkûku Kichyâ's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Bûkûku Kichyâ leaves and flower petals never touch the ground.

The Caypup near Bûkûku Kichyâ are known to be quite timid.

Bûkûku Kichyâ's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves ritual combat to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 1 via throat 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.

Bûkûku Kichyâ Census Data: Year 2000

381 of Bûkûku Kichyâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 86 work as Craftsmen
• 29 work as Merchants
• 63 work as Service Workers
• 37 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 55 work as Civil Servants
• 34 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

782 of Bûkûku Kichyâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 87 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Bûkûku Kichyâ's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

POI

History

Bûkûku Kichyâ used to be more prosperous, but something happened relatively long ago that left it a shrunken shadow of its former self. If the settlement is prosperous, the locals often lament how much more they could have had. If the settlement is not prosperous, the locals blame their ill fortunes on that event. Reminders of this better time can be found in many places within Bûkûku Kichyâ.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of spared the town from the rampage of a legendary monster. One of Bûkûku Kichyâ's festivals remembers the hero.

History