Eg Urt Zapm

Eg Urt Zapm (/urt/ /zapm/ [nice] [haven]) is a subtropical Town located in Morfalcon Dutchy, Qånehgdab Kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Eg Urt Zapm is derived from the Dwarven language, as Eg Urt Zapm was founded by Lush Rewqrebqug, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Eg Urt Zapm has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 20°C (68°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 12°C (53°F). Eg Urt Zapm receives an average of 258 cm/y (101 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Eg Urt Zapm covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 1986 m (6515 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Eg Urt Zapm was founded durring the early 14th century in fall of the year 1315, by Lush Rewqrebqug. The establishment of Eg Urt Zapm was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Lush Rewqrebqug electing to pay people to resettle in Eg Urt Zapm.

Eg Urt Zapm was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Eg Urt Zapm 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.

Eg Urt Zapm is buildings are arranged arround a network of crampt gravel 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 sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. Unfortuantly, these would-be-castle fortifications are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Even the most brief look arround Eg Urt Zapm has a good chance of putting a church or shrine into the center of your view. The town is most certainly a god fearing community. It’s also definitely a god loving community. THe streetcornors are occupied by preachers, with the occasional intersection playing host to an actually friendly debate relating to the merits of various gods. Even the less popular as well as the less politically loved gods seem to have a space in Eg Urt Zapm, there’s even shrines to gods known to the region only through hearsay.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Eg Urt Zapm 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.

Eg Urt Zapm 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.

Eg Urt Zapm 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.

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

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

Eg Urt Zapm 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

The law within Eg Urt Zapm is highly corrupt, or does not apply to certain favored groups or castes. Strangers might be fleeced by local lawmen, evildoers can be absolved by a payment, and powerful gentry do as they please.

Eg Urt Zapm's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Eg Urt Zapm tiny harmless tornadoes plague the town.

The Snake, Venomous near Eg Urt Zapm are known to be quite timid.

Eg Urt Zapm's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Augury energies of tier 3 via proclamations.

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.

Eg Urt Zapm Census Data: Year 2000

336 of Eg Urt Zapm's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 22 work in Agriculture
• 76 work as Craftsmen
• 24 work as Merchants
• 55 work as Service Workers
• 32 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 53 work as Civil Servants
• 30 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

704 of Eg Urt Zapm's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 66 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century an unusualy harsh winter spawned a deadly blizard to Eg Urt Zapm. The ice, snow, and wind killed 254 people, 138 livestock, and destroyed 75. The event is remembered as Horror's Breath.

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