Ēji Jágahi-uvinks

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks (/ˈgri̽jo̠l/ /uˈviŋs/ [winery] [amount; quantity]) is a subtropical Large City located in Ghenuwæ̈kujmäp Hold, Adhilu Island, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Ēji Jágahi-uvinks is derived from the Gnollish language, as Ēji Jágahi-uvinks was founded by Horxohz vyim Roxlendfilf, who was culturaly Gnollish.

Climate

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has a yearly average temperature of 17°C (62°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 10°C (50°F). Ēji Jágahi-uvinks receives an average of 271 cm/y (106 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ēji Jágahi-uvinks covers an area of nearly 408 km² (163 mi²), and an average elevation of 1576 m (5170 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks was founded durring the early 14th century in spring of the year 1343, by Horxohz vyim Roxlendfilf. The establishment of Ēji Jágahi-uvinks was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Horxohz vyim Roxlendfilf struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Ēji Jágahi-uvinks as a prison colony.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks was built using the conventions of Gnollish durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks is buildings are arranged within a network of crampt packed earth 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 is defended by arcane means. It's hard to spot at first, but there's a tell tell shimmer in the air arround Ēji Jágahi-uvinks, and you can spot the ocasional warding glyph carved into a rock or tree all arround town. These mystical defences are ancient, unknowable, and unassailable by current means... Assuming everything is in working order. Otherwise, the wards are little more than a deathtrap. Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's Relic of the World That Was 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.

Right off the bat Ēji Jágahi-uvinks hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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 Ēji Jágahi-uvinks. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's parks.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Ēji Jágahi-uvinks.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

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

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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. Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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 Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks 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

The locals are in a state of despair and dull apathy. They've lost the things that used to give them pride and hope, with the best among them carrying on out of habitual duty and the worst giving ready hands to shameful deeds and ignoble acts. No one really believes the future can be better, and most seek only to satisfy immediate appetites.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's bank 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 Ēji Jágahi-uvinks every night at precisely midnight every structure in town is engulfed by sailors fire until the end of the witching hour.

The Worg near Ēji Jágahi-uvinks are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves performance art to channel Abjuration energies of tier 3 via oratory performances.

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.

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks Census Data: Year 2000

36634 of Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 2019 work in Agriculture
• 8093 work as Craftsmen
• 3032 work as Merchants
• 5589 work as Service Workers
• 3753 work as General Laborers
• 1478 work as Skilled Laborers
• 5357 work as Civil Servants
• 3239 work in Cottage Industries
• 2083 work as Artists
• 1991 work in Produce Industries

52968 of Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 6744 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ēji Jágahi-uvinks makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Ēji Jágahi-uvinks was attacked by savage hagss living nearby. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Ēji Jágahi-uvinks lost 290 people, 269 livestock, and 90 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 48, when members of Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's militia enacted an operation to deliver a message to a 's family member, then secure them. The operation was complicated by one of the key objectives in the operation requiring sticking to a very strict and short time table. The conflict ended with needing to break through the enemy's lines, which ended in defeat for Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Ēji Jágahi-uvinks's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History