Kîtha-bazehë Ye

Kîtha-bazehë Ye (/ˈkɪθa/ /baˈzehë/ [casual] [servant; waiter]) is a temperate Large City located in the Mithle County of the Union of Engineers.

The name Kîtha-bazehë Ye is derived from the Sylvin language, as Kîtha-bazehë Ye was founded by Tshë, who was culturaly Iron Elvish.

Climate

Kîtha-bazehë Ye has a yearly average temperature of 29°C (84°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 33°C (91°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a warm 26°C (78°F). Kîtha-bazehë Ye receives an average of 173 cm/y (68 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Kîtha-bazehë Ye covers an area of nearly 271 km² (108 mi²), and an average elevation of 2824 m (9265 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kîtha-bazehë Ye was founded durring the early 14th century in spring of the year 1315, by Tshë. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Kîtha-bazehë Ye was built using the conventions of Iron Elvish durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kîtha-bazehë Ye is no diffrent. The city'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.

Kîtha-bazehë Ye is buildings folow an organic layout of broad packed earth streets whihch gives the city a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The city rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. The millitarily questionable 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 Kîtha-bazehë Ye 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. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. The influx of wealth has brought with it an influx of relaxation. Everywhere you look people are enjoying their prosperity in a slow, casual, and deliberate manner. There’s no rush for anything anywhere you look.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

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

Kîtha-bazehë Ye has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.

Kîtha-bazehë 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. Kîtha-bazehë Ye's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

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

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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 Kîtha-bazehë Ye's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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.

Kîtha-bazehë 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

Kîtha-bazehë Ye's bank 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 Kîtha-bazehë Ye every night at precisely midnight every structure in town is engulfed by sailors fire until the end of the witching hour.

The Mudbog near Kîtha-bazehë Ye are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Kîtha-bazehë Ye's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves reenactments to channel Conjuration energies of tier 3 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Kîtha-bazehë Ye Census Data: Year 2000

24272 of Kîtha-bazehë Ye's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1337 work in Agriculture
• 5423 work as Craftsmen
• 1964 work as Merchants
• 3738 work as Service Workers
• 2507 work as General Laborers
• 980 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3532 work as Civil Servants
• 2115 work in Cottage Industries
• 1337 work as Artists
• 1339 work in Produce Industries

34583 of Kîtha-bazehë Ye's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 5117 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kîtha-bazehë Ye has a conflict with a neighboring community. This usually isn't part of a larger war, but is instead a personal animosity between them. It may be the community has suffered at their enemy's hands, or they may have been the ones applying the suffering. Constant low-level skirmishes and trouble making go on between the two.

Kîtha-bazehë Ye is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of solved a major long term problem plaguing the town. A small order of knights was founded in 's honor, and bears his name to this day.

History