Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû (/ˈlæcɑ/ /ˈcæmʊ/ [cyan] [topic; theme; chorus]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Glikérád Principality of the Saborri.

The name Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû is derived from the Sylvin language, as Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû was founded by Shëm, who was culturaly Rattu.

Climate

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû has a yearly average temperature of 6°C (42°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold -12°C (11°F). Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû receives an average of 96 cm/y (37 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû covers an area of nearly 196 km² (78 mi²), and an average elevation of 5088 m (16692 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû was founded durring the early 12th century in fall of the year 1135, by Shëm. The establishment of Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Shëm struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû as a prison colony.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû was built using the conventions of Rattu durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû is buildings are arranged within a network of restrictive cobblestone streets which form a rectangular grid, where each block verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller block has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. The budget oriented has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

A look around Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû gives you a feeling of distrust and paranoia. Also greed. The locals seem to be very much into scholastic pursuits, based on the hushed, murmured conversations you hear at least. Everyone in Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû acts like they have discovered something wondrous, and are worried they will endure some horrible fate so another can take what they’ve discovered for themselves.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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 Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's parks.

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

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

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

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

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

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

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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 Large City. Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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 Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's natural decorations nor waterways.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû vermin leave small tokens in payment for food taken.

The Domovoi near Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Enchantment energies of tier 1 via mimery.

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.

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû Census Data: Year 2000

17528 of Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1006 work in Agriculture
• 4003 work as Craftsmen
• 1397 work as Merchants
• 2589 work as Service Workers
• 1769 work as General Laborers
• 729 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2541 work as Civil Servants
• 1567 work in Cottage Industries
• 978 work as Artists
• 949 work in Produce Industries

27820 of Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 925 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû 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.

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

POI

History

The the a banner of Transmutation, an a banner imbued with great amounts of Transmutation energies was created near Chyameya Læchyâ Chyæmû by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History