Hoūä Erv Nêōw

Hoūä Erv Nêōw (/haʊ̯̄æ/ /ɜ̋ːv/ [ant] [fat (bodily substance)]) is a subtropical Town located in the Īchnḱyǐyátzmb̪v Region of the Confederation of Goblin Tribes.

The name Hoūä Erv Nêōw is derived from the Goblin language, as Hoūä Erv Nêōw was founded by Zlegfê Fyëme Zlêyêtë, who was culturaly Goblin.

Climate

Hoūä Erv Nêōw has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 4°C (39°F). Hoūä Erv Nêōw receives an average of 300 cm/y (118 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Hoūä Erv Nêōw covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3906 m (12814 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Hoūä Erv Nêōw was founded durring the late 16th century in summer of the year 1486, by Zlegfê Fyëme Zlêyêtë. The establishment of Hoūä Erv Nêōw was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Zlegfê Fyëme Zlêyêtë struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Hoūä Erv Nêōw as a prison colony.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw was built using the conventions of Goblin durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Hoūä Erv Nêōw 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.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw is is constructed arround a semi-circular restrictive packed earth mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. 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. Unfortuantly, these exceptionaly well made fortifications are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the town like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This town is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

Hoūä Erv Nêōw possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

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

Hoūä Erv Nêōw 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.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw 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.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw 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.

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

Hoūä Erv Nêōw possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw 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

Two or more groups of citizens within Hoūä Erv Nêōw hate each other. Their neighbors or the local law have kept things from too-overt violence, but members of the groups will constantly interfere with their rivals and cause whatever misery they can get away with. This hate may spring from recent events, or it may be an inherited spite from old wrongs.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used has a sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation. The primary facade of its buildings often featured a series of set backs that create a stepped outline. Low-relief decorative panels can be found at entrances, around windows, along roof edges or as string courses. It was best known for its use of smooth finish building materials such as stucco, concrete block, glazed brick or mosaic tile. Decorative details can incorporate various artistic or exotic motifs to suit the building's function or the architect's whim. Chevrons, zigzags, and other geometrical motifs are common forms of ornament.

In Hoūä Erv Nêōw sometimes, near one of the seasonal solstices, the sun appears to split into three and it rains from a clear sky for several hours.

The Church Grim near Hoūä Erv Nêōw are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves gestures to channel Conjuration energies of tier 2 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.

Hoūä Erv Nêōw Census Data: Year 2000

391 of Hoūä Erv Nêōw's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 85 work as Craftsmen
• 30 work as Merchants
• 65 work as Service Workers
• 36 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 60 work as Civil Servants
• 37 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

782 of Hoūä Erv Nêōw's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 102 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Hoūä Erv Nêōw 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 a local hero by the name of slew a monster which had been terrorizing the streets of Hoūä Erv Nêōw. Hoūä Erv Nêōw's militia's elite squad is named after .

History