Fìkh Lěymus-ved

Fìkh Lěymus-ved (/ˈlɛjmus/ /ved/ [seaweed] [butt]) is a subtropical Town located in Lelumoz̄e Parish, Khǐnèzhog District, within the Federation of Alveria.

The name Fìkh Lěymus-ved is derived from the Constructi language, as Fìkh Lěymus-ved was founded by Cluhn Trêbmtco, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Fìkh Lěymus-ved has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 31°C (87°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Fìkh Lěymus-ved receives an average of 222 cm/y (87 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Fìkh Lěymus-ved covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 1552 m (5091 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Fìkh Lěymus-ved was founded durring the late 15th century in winter of the year 1370, by Cluhn Trêbmtco. The establishment of Fìkh Lěymus-ved was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Cluhn Trêbmtco struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Fìkh Lěymus-ved as a prison colony.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Fìkh Lěymus-ved is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved is buildings are arranged arround a single crampt paverstone mainstreet with many smaller streets branching off of it which gives the town a over all rectangular shape, albit one warped and twisted by the nature of the curves of the main road. The town rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. Unfortuantly, these millitarily questionable fortifications are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Right off the bat Fìkh Lěymus-ved 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. Somehow this town has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. This wealth has brought the town nothing but neurosis, if you can believe your eyes. Everyone acts as if you’re out to take a piece of them. Every door is locked and every window barred. Efforts are made to make you feel welcome, but only in the public areas of the town, particularly the market.

Civic Infrastructure

Fìkh Lěymus-ved has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Fìkh Lěymus-ved.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved 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.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved 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.

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

Fìkh Lěymus-ved 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.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved 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.

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

Fìkh Lěymus-ved possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved 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

Fìkh Lěymus-ved's mayor's house 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..

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is skipped in Fìkh Lěymus-ved.

The Anhana near Fìkh Lěymus-ved are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Illusion energies of tier 3 via 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.

Fìkh Lěymus-ved Census Data: Year 2000

307 of Fìkh Lěymus-ved's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 20 work in Agriculture
• 68 work as Craftsmen
• 22 work as Merchants
• 50 work as Service Workers
• 31 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 46 work as Civil Servants
• 27 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

697 of Fìkh Lěymus-ved's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 41 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Fìkh Lěymus-ved is reliant on an industry or product that has toxic or negative side-effects as part of its production. The good is extremely valuable, or the community is extremely desperate, and the side effects are endured as a necessary evil. It may be that their neighbors or lord are forcing them to produce the good so that they aren’t the ones suffering the cost.

The center of Fìkh Lěymus-ved's town square was built around an ancient standing stone.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century Loch Lagdo began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which brought great calamity to the entire nation, killing every person and animal in its path which could not escape the cloud. Oddly, the plants of the region flourished in the years after the disaster. The disaster brought an end to people, livestock, and buildings. The disaster is referred to as the Ill Tides Wind.

History