Kèr Kègājāfgom

Kèr Kègājāfgom (/ˈcɛgəˑ/ /ˈʤəˑfgom/ [ball; sphere] [awkward]) is a subtropical Town located in Iosupumuji Hold, Vevíhgbùg Provence, within the Tauranian United Provinces.

The name Kèr Kègājāfgom is derived from the Tauric language, as Kèr Kègājāfgom was founded by Nantera Foulkes, who was culturaly Tauric.

Climate

Kèr Kègājāfgom has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 23°C (73°F). Kèr Kègājāfgom receives an average of 153 cm/y (60 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Kèr Kègājāfgom covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4722 m (15492 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kèr Kègājāfgom was founded durring the early 12th century in summer of the year 1114, by Nantera Foulkes. The establishment of Kèr Kègājāfgom suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Kèr Kègājāfgom which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Kèr Kègājāfgom was built using the conventions of Tauric durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kèr Kègājāfgom 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.

Kèr Kègājāfgom is buildings folow an organic layout of crampt paverstone streets whihch gives the town a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The town lacks any defencive features, though certainly constructing even a simple fence or digging a ditch is at the forefront of the 's mind. At least, one would hope so.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Kèr Kègājāfgom, 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 god, all preforming the same rituals to bless and anoint building,s streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holysymbols is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This town certainly loves its god.

Civic Infrastructure

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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.

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

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

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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.

Kèr Kègājāfgom has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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.

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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.

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

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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 Town. Kèr Kègājāfgom's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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 Kèr Kègājāfgom's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kèr Kègājāfgom 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

Kèr Kègājāfgom's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Kèr Kègājāfgom rain occurs in reverse with water pooling up from the earth then falling into the skies to from clouds, this unsettles every visitor that sees it.

The Mud Elemental, Small near Kèr Kègājāfgom are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Kèr Kègājāfgom's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves orgies to channel Invocation energies of tier 1 via mimery.

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.

Kèr Kègājāfgom Census Data: Year 2000

399 of Kèr Kègājāfgom's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 88 work as Craftsmen
• 32 work as Merchants
• 64 work as Service Workers
• 39 work as General Laborers
• 13 work as Skilled Laborers
• 59 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

874 of Kèr Kègājāfgom's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 25 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kèr Kègājāfgom was unknowingly built atop something unstable, and now that substrate is crumbling. It may be swampy ground or a decaying coastline, or it could be an ancient buried city that’s now giving way. In the case of some antique habitation, the denizens that once lived there might be boiling upward as their home is collapsing, or new opportunities may be revealed even as the community’s present structure is ruined.

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

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Kèr Kègājāfgom was attacked by a renegade group of the army. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Kèr Kègājāfgom lost 237 people, 387 livestock, and 62 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 86, when members of Kèr Kègājāfgom's militia enacted an operation to escort a particular irregulars group to a safe location. The operation was complicated by the officers in charge fight among themselves, weakening the army as a whole. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in a crushing defeat for Kèr Kègājāfgom's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Kèr Kègājāfgom's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

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