Guma Ayâ

Guma Ayâ (/iˈsəhə/ /ˈajɑ/ [saint] [specimen]) is a subtropical Town located in Rm-43ojĭipakh Zone, Mî Kûrà Empire, within the Warrenese Shogunate.

The name Guma Ayâ is derived from the Wareneese language, as Guma Ayâ was founded by Gèb Bennett Glèdonm, who was culturaly Wareneese.

Climate

Guma Ayâ has a yearly average temperature of 14°C (57°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 2°C (35°F). Guma Ayâ receives an average of 198 cm/y (77 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Guma Ayâ covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3810 m (12500 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Guma Ayâ was founded durring the early 10th century, by Gèb Bennett Glèdonm. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Gèb Bennett Glèdonm.

Guma Ayâ was built using the conventions of Wareneese durring the early 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Guma Ayâ 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.

Guma Ayâ 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 town is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. The exceptionaly well made fortifications have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Right off the bat Guma Ayâ 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

Guma Ayâ 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 Guma Ayâ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Guma Ayâ's parks.

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

Guma Ayâ 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.

Guma Ayâ 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.

Guma Ayâ 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.

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

Guma Ayâ 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 Guma Ayâ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Guma Ayâ 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.

Guma Ayâ 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.

Cultural Notes

Religious leaders are influential in almost any community, but in Guma Ayâ they make up the final authorities. It may be an explicit theocracy, with rule by the clerics of a particular faith, or a temple might be so important and powerful that the official leaders are helpless to resist its will. The locals can be expected to be loyal adherents to the faith, or else the less pious majority is deeply intimidated by the religion’s believers.

Guma Ayâ's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by vertical proportions, pointed arches, external buttressing, and asymmetry in the general shape of its buildings. The decorative features of the style were key, consisting of large arched windows, pointed arches, vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses, and sculptures integrated into the structure itself. Occasionally, for very important buildings, an array of sculptures or one colossal sculpture might replace the entirety of the entrance to said building.

In Guma Ayâ there are no smells.

The Mud Elemental, Medium near Guma Ayâ are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Guma Ayâ's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves destroying a prepared ritual vessel to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 1 via divine sermons.

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.

Guma Ayâ Census Data: Year 2000

466 of Guma Ayâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 27 work in Agriculture
• 102 work as Craftsmen
• 37 work as Merchants
• 76 work as Service Workers
• 47 work as General Laborers
• 18 work as Skilled Laborers
• 68 work as Civil Servants
• 45 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 25 work in Produce Industries

915 of Guma Ayâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 103 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Guma Ayâ was attacked by soldiers from another nation, waging a greater campaign. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Guma Ayâ lost 299 people, 199 livestock, and 94 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 170, when members of Guma Ayâ's militia enacted an operation to destroy or capture a particular enemy powerful weapon. The operation was complicated by the army being put into a position where they could only choose between two terrible options. The conflict ended with needing to break through the enemy's lines, which ended in victory for Guma Ayâ's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Guma Ayâ's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History