Hë-mêne Ye

Hë-mêne Ye (/hë/ /ˈmɘne/ [bronze] [dart]) is a subtropical Large City located in Tëmtdêmîmîpíê County, Cemar County, within the Dalandic Empire.

The name Hë-mêne Ye is derived from the Sylvin language, as Hë-mêne Ye was founded by Tshè, who was culturaly Iron Elvish.

Climate

Hë-mêne Ye has a yearly average temperature of 20°C (68°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 17°C (62°F). Hë-mêne Ye receives an average of 229 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Hë-mêne Ye covers an area of nearly 453 km² (181 mi²), and an average elevation of 1806 m (5925 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Hë-mêne Ye was founded durring the early 10th century, by Tshè. The establishment of Hë-mêne Ye was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Tshè electing to pay people to resettle in Hë-mêne Ye.

Hë-mêne Ye was built using the conventions of Iron Elvish durring the early 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Hë-mêne Ye is no diffrent. The city'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.

Hë-mêne Ye is buildings folow an organic layout of restrictive split-log ties streets whihch gives the city a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The city 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 city's exceptionaly well made 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.

A look around Hë-mêne Ye is like a look into a broken heart. There is no planning, no organization. Everyone here clearly goes about their own thing with little thought to anyone around them who isn’t selling something they need. It’s not malicious. Heads are hung. Eyes are empty. Something truly horrible happened here once upon a time and the city never healed.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Hë-mêne Ye has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Hë-mêne Ye 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 Hë-mêne Ye. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Hë-mêne Ye's parks.

Hë-mêne Ye has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Hë-mêne Ye.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

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

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

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

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

Hë-mêne Ye has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Hë-mêne Ye 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. Hë-mêne Ye's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye 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 Hë-mêne Ye's natural decorations nor waterways.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye 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.

Hë-mêne Ye 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

Hë-mêne Ye's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Hë-mêne Ye during thunderstorms, with each flash of lightning, everyone sees different monsters from the corner of their eyes.

The Howler near Hë-mêne Ye are known to be quite timid.

Hë-mêne Ye's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves sex to channel Wild Magic 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.

Hë-mêne Ye Census Data: Year 2000

40929 of Hë-mêne Ye's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 2337 work in Agriculture
• 9310 work as Craftsmen
• 3320 work as Merchants
• 6017 work as Service Workers
• 4249 work as General Laborers
• 1670 work as Skilled Laborers
• 6030 work as Civil Servants
• 3573 work in Cottage Industries
• 2342 work as Artists
• 2081 work in Produce Industries

62738 of Hë-mêne Ye's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 3206 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Hë-mêne Ye is surrounded by dangerous terrain: miasmatic swamps, perilous crevasses, radioactive badlands, a pocket of or some other harmful topography. Hë-mêne Ye might prefer the defensive potential of the terrain here, or have found a precious resource worth the danger. The terrain might have formed at some time since the founding, with the citizens struggling to make terms with the new danger.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami ended a drought plaguing Hë-mêne Ye. One of Hë-mêne Ye's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History