Kad Ghelávo-trä

Kad Ghelávo-trä (/rjul/ /træ̝/ [crazy; insane] [human]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Vyedlupglá Region of the Goblin Tribes.

The name Kad Ghelávo-trä is derived from the Goblin language, as Kad Ghelávo-trä was founded by Dhighohz, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Kad Ghelávo-trä has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°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 3°C (37°F). Kad Ghelávo-trä receives an average of 295 cm/y (116 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Kad Ghelávo-trä covers an area of nearly 89 km² (35 mi²), and an average elevation of 3212 m (10538 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kad Ghelávo-trä was founded durring the late 15th century in winter of the year 1360, by Dhighohz. The establishment of Kad Ghelávo-trä suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Kad Ghelávo-trä which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Kad Ghelávo-trä was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

Kad Ghelávo-trä is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of premissive paverstone streets which form hexical paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The city posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Kad Ghelávo-trä weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. The budget focused millitary grade defenses have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Kad Ghelávo-trä, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same divine, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its divine. Asside form the revrent worship, you can see the citizens are preparing for something, and that something isn’t good. Weapons are worn openly. Defensive structures have been recently constructed to guard less used areas of the city. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Kad Ghelávo-trä has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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 Kad Ghelávo-trä. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Kad Ghelávo-trä's parks.

Kad Ghelávo-trä has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Kad Ghelávo-trä.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

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

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

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

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

Kad Ghelávo-trä has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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. Kad Ghelávo-trä's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Kad Ghelávo-trä's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Kad Ghelávo-trä has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Kad Ghelávo-trä has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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 Kad Ghelávo-trä's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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.

Kad Ghelávo-trä 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

Kad Ghelávo-trä's town hall 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 Kad Ghelávo-trä snow is warm to the touch and does not melt within city limits. Also it only happens during summer.

The Yothga near Kad Ghelávo-trä are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Kad Ghelávo-trä's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves long periods of drunkenness to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 2 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Kad Ghelávo-trä Census Data: Year 2000

7963 of Kad Ghelávo-trä's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 447 work in Agriculture
• 1780 work as Craftsmen
• 640 work as Merchants
• 1208 work as Service Workers
• 817 work as General Laborers
• 323 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1188 work as Civil Servants
• 688 work in Cottage Industries
• 436 work as Artists
• 436 work in Produce Industries

12109 of Kad Ghelávo-trä's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1056 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kad Ghelávo-trä has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

POI

History

Kad Ghelávo-trä's residents established a new industry 2 years ago, and it’s making them a great deal of profit. Old patterns of authority and wealth are being disrupted, and the old gentry are unlikely to be pleased about it. They may be trying to take over the industry, or they may have been the ones to enable it in the first place and are using it to crush the life out of any rival power bases. Outsiders might be playing a major role as well, and it could be they plot to siphon off the profits.

The the a castle of Wild Magic, an a castle imbued with notable amounts of Wild Magic energies was created near Kad Gæ̈po-ropt by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History