Mut-drö Kez

Mut-drö Kez (/mut/ /dro˞/ [leverage] [raincoat]) is a temperate Large Town located in the Wǟlwu Moot of the Viceroyalty of Rosid.

The name Mut-drö Kez is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Mut-drö Kez was founded by Ya̋chīnḱ Gāshvoī 'Robbi Daisy' Séchī Bé̄kī Coú Chenvriu, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Mut-drö Kez has a yearly average temperature of 9°C (48°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 12°C (53°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 7°C (44°F). Mut-drö Kez receives an average of 271 cm/y (106 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Mut-drö Kez covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1890 m (6200 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Mut-drö Kez was founded durring the late 11th century, by Ya̋chīnḱ Gāshvoī 'Robbi Daisy' Séchī Bé̄kī Coú Chenvriu. The establishment of Mut-drö Kez was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Ya̋chīnḱ Gāshvoī 'Robbi Daisy' Séchī Bé̄kī Coú Chenvriu electing to pay people to resettle in Mut-drö Kez.

Mut-drö Kez was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Mut-drö Kez is no diffrent. The town'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.

Mut-drö Kez is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of broad 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 town is the proud owner of a thick set of fortified walls fashioned from querried stone blocks. While not up to snuff for a fort or castle wall, the town's walls are naturaly much larger than those of forts or castles. Therefore, the construction such a wall is most expencive. Mut-drö Kez's buget focused wall would serve its community well in battle in spite of looking unimpressive compared to castles and fortresses. The town's top tier civilian fortifications have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the town.

Mut-drö Kez 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. There’s a patern to the panic. It’s not easy to see, and no one quite agrees on what it is, but the locals know and operate under this pattern. It shapes everything they do, and you feel as if you’ve almost worked it out only for some small detail to devastate your theory every time you try and comprehend it.

Civic Infrastructure

Mut-drö Kez has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Mut-drö Kez 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 Mut-drö Kez. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Mut-drö Kez's parks.

Mut-drö Kez has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Mut-drö Kez.

Mut-drö Kez 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.

Mut-drö Kez 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.

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

Mut-drö Kez 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.

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

Mut-drö Kez 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 Mut-drö Kez's natural decorations nor waterways.

Mut-drö Kez 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.

Mut-drö Kez 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

Mut-drö Kez's bank 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 Mut-drö Kez grains of dust blow into perfectly neat rows.

The Gravebound near Mut-drö Kez are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Mut-drö Kez's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves line dance to channel Charm energies of tier 2 via moments of science.

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.

Mut-drö Kez Census Data: Year 2000

505 of Mut-drö Kez's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 30 work in Agriculture
• 113 work as Craftsmen
• 42 work as Merchants
• 80 work as Service Workers
• 51 work as General Laborers
• 18 work as Skilled Laborers
• 75 work as Civil Servants
• 46 work in Cottage Industries
• 24 work as Artists
• 26 work in Produce Industries

998 of Mut-drö Kez's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 95 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Mut-drö Kez produces something unique, a good or service that cannot be had anywhere else in the kingdom. This may be due to some unique resource found only there, or some carefully-guarded craft, or it may be a special service that can only be provided by the locals, who are somehow unique in their forms or abilities.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the No̠f-i̽n Gǟk Woodlands was struck by a drought when Mere Chouteau grew too small to continue feeding Waterway Northtara, which reduced the available water supply nationwide, but was especially harsh in the area arround Mut-drö Kez. As the neighboring regions had no water so spare, Mut-drö Kez lost 146 people, and 360 livestock in the disaster.. The drought lasted for 2 weeks, which are remembered as the Calamity Thirst.

History