Fiffev Ew Med (/ˈfiffev/ /ew/ [empty; hollow; naked; nude] [stay]) is a temperate Large City located in the Yaditar Earldom of the Viceroyalty of Rosid.
The name Fiffev Ew Med is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Fiffev Ew Med was founded by Gryriorth Zaevnes, who was culturaly Wood Elven.
Climate
Fiffev Ew Med has a yearly average temperature of 5°C (41°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 23°C (73°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -12°C (11°F). Fiffev Ew Med receives an average of 158 cm/y (62 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Fiffev Ew Med covers an area of nearly 263 km2 (105 mi2), and an average elevation of 4366 m (14324 ft) above sea level.
Overview
Fiffev Ew Med was founded durring the early 15th century in winter of the year 1428, by Gryriorth Zaevnes. The establishment of Fiffev Ew Med was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Fiffev Ew Med's construction back out of the project. Gryriorth Zaevnes pushed on reguardles, and Fiffev Ew Med was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.
Fiffev Ew Med was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Fiffev Ew Med is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber and earth construction, with most buildigns first floors resembling mounds of earth, with subsequent floors appearing as elaborate log cabins, with each building forming a tiered pyramid of sorts fromed from the stack of rectangular, peek roofed cabins. Most wooden bracing, support, and trim is carved with decorative knotwork, and the larger structures even feature painted trim which emphasises the knotwork.
Fiffev Ew Med is buildings are arranged arround a network of spacious paverstone 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 city is the proud owner of a thick set of fortified walls fashioned from querried stone blocks. While not up to snuff for a fort or castle wall, the city's walls are naturaly much larger than those of forts or castles. Therefore, the construction such a wall is most expencive. Fiffev Ew Med's buget focused wall would serve its community well in battle in spite of looking unimpressive compared to castles and fortresses. The city's top tier civilian fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.
Even the most brief look arround Fiffev Ew Med has a good chance of putting a church or shrine into the center of your view. The city 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 Fiffev Ew Med, there’s even shrines to gods known to the region only through hearsay.
Civic Infrastructure
Fiffev Ew Med possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.
Fiffev Ew Med has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.
Fiffev Ew Med 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 Fiffev Ew Med. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Fiffev Ew Med's parks.
Fiffev Ew Med has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Fiffev Ew Med.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.
Fiffev Ew Med has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med has a monistary of an order of Civil Monks, who provide divine-related services to the general public and maintain Fiffev Ew Med's public wards, blessings, and other arcane systems.
Fiffev Ew Med has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.
Fiffev Ew Med 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. Fiffev Ew Med's grid is powered by mana accumulators.
Fiffev Ew Med's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.
Fiffev Ew Med has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med 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 Fiffev Ew Med's natural decorations nor waterways.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med 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.
Fiffev Ew Med 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
Fiffev Ew Med has a long tradition of martial expertise. This may be a crisply-organized history of skilled native levies, or it may be a natural belligerence in the people that leaves them familiar with bloodshed. While their neighbors and liege doubtless respect their talents, this very aptitude might make them more willing to turn to steel than prudence would advise.
Fiffev Ew Med's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.
In Fiffev Ew Med it is impossible to directly or indirectly lie.
The Death Butterfly Swarm near Fiffev Ew Med are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.
Fiffev Ew Med's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 2 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.
Agriculture
Dairy Farmers: 112
Farmers: 173
Farm Laborer: 312
Hunters: 222
Milk Maids: 152
Ranchers: 81
Ranch Hands: 175
Shepherds: 152
Farmland: 252869 m2
Cattle and Similar Creatures: 15609
Poultry: 187311
Swine: 12487
Sheep: 624
Goats: 124
Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 6243
Craftsmen
Arms and Toolmakers: 127
Blacksmiths: 148
Bookbinders: 79
Buckle-makers: 82
Cabinetmakers: 127
Candlemakers: 183
Carpenters: 180
Clothmakers: 189
Coach and Harness Makers: 67
Coopers: 156
Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 91
Copyists: 61
Cutlers: 52
Fabricworkers: 156
Farrier: 356
Furriers: 40
Glassworkers: 208
Gunsmiths: 134
Harness-Makers: 60
Hatters: 128
Hosiery Workers: 44
Jewelers: 69
Leatherwrights: 156
Locksmiths: 63
Matchstick makers: 97
Musical Instrument Makers: 94
Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 80
Paper Workers: 89
Plasterers: 79
Pursemakers: 111
Roofers: 67
Ropemakers: 64
Rugmakers: 60
Saddlers: 115
Scabbardmakers: 131
Scalemakers: 68
Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 40
Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 60
Shoemakers: 61
Soap and Tallow Workers: 219
Tailors: 320
Tanners: 80
Upholsterers: 90
Watchmakers: 85
Weavers: 183
Whitesmiths: 52
Merchants
Adventuring Goods Retellers: 42
Arcana Sellers: 43
Beer-Sellers: 86
Booksellers: 100
Butchers: 160
Chandlers: 164
Chicken Butchers: 180
Entrepreneurs: 64
Fine Clothiers: 152
Fishmongers: 160
Florists: 37
Potion Sellers: 111
Resellers: 297
Spice Merchants: 80
Wine-sellers: 124
Wheelwright: 96
Woodsellers: 61
Service workers
Bakers: 328
Barbers: 277
Coachmen: 93
Cooks: 260
Doctors: 134
Gamekeepers: 102
Grooms: 55
Hairdressers: 201
Healers: 171
Housekeepers: 173
Housemaids: 312
House Stewards: 183
Inns: 59
Laundry maids: 111
Maidservants: 231
Nursery Maids: 111
Pastrycooks: 215
Restaurateur: 260
Tavern Keepers: 260
Specialized Laborer
Ashworkers: 88
Bleachers: 57
Chemical Workers: 36
Coal Heavers: 124
In-Town Couriers: 156
Long Haul Couriers: 156
Dockyard Workers: 124
Gas Workers: 30
Hay Merchants: 52
Leech Collectors: 150
Millers: 138
Miners: 148
Oilmen and Polishers: 99
Postmen: 141
Pure Finder: 82
Skinners: 195
Sugar Refiners: 35
Tosher: 96
Warehousemen: 249
Watercarriers: 134
Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 178
Skilled Laborers
Accountants: 78
Alchemist: 91
Clerk: 127
Dentists: 61
Educators: 175
Engineers: 84
Gardeners: 61
Mages: 46
Plumbers: 68
Pharmacist: 75
Professors: 26
Scientists: 48
Wizards: 27
Civil Servants
Adventurers: 61
Bankers: 83
Civil Clerks: 138
Civic Iudex: 70
Consultants: 40
Exorcist: 138
Fixers: 72
Kami Clerk: 121
Landlords: 126
Lawyers: 76
Legend Keepers: 107
Militia Officers: 567
Monks, Monastic: 178
Monks, Civic: 208
Historian, Oral: 132
Historian, Textual: 70
Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 145
Priests: 283
Rangers: 87
Rat Catchers: 99
Scholars: 102
Spiritualist: 113
Slayers: 35
Storytellers: 235
Military Officers: 195
Cottage Industries
Brewers: 208
Comfort Services: 231
Enchanters: 67
Herbalists: 73
Jaminators: 240
Needleworkers: 195
Potters: 102
Preserve Makers: 189
Quilters: 83
Seamsters: 283
Spinners: 178
Tinker: 69
Weaver: 156
Artists
Actors: 70
Architects: 24
Bards: 100
Costumers: 37
Dancers: 71
Drafters: 41
Engravers: 52
Fine Furniture Carpenters: 30
Glaziers: 64
Inlayers: 60
Musicians: 168
Painters, Art: 32
Playwrights: 69
Sculptors, Art: 54
Wood Carvers: 215
Writers: 222
Produce Industries
Butter Churners: 215
Canners: 173
Cheesmakers: 231
Ice Merchants: 27
Millers: 117
Picklers: 105
Smokers: 84
Stockmakers: 68
Tobacconists: 99
Tallowmakers: 138
23517 of Fiffev Ew Med's population work within a Foundational Occupation.
1267 work in Agriculture
5201 work as Craftsmen
1957 work as Merchants
3536 work as Service Workers
2468 work as General Laborers
967 work as Skilled Laborers
3481 work as Civil Servants
2074 work in Cottage Industries
1309 work as Artists
1257 work in Produce Industries
34550 of Fiffev Ew Med's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 4370 (7%) are noncontributers.
Points of Interest
Fiffev Ew Med makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.
POI
History
The the a grail of Charm, an a grail imbued with notable amounts of Charm energies was created in Fephwÿ Gewt Cewkez by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.