Mærîhi Heve

Mærîhi Heve (/ˈkɑda/ /ˈheve/ [bronze] [giant]) is a temperate Small Town located in Ûbû Hîhi Kingdom, I Qûhu̹ Empire, within the Warrenese Shogunate.

The name Mærîhi Heve is derived from the Wareneese language, as Mærîhi Heve was founded by Zeshêpî Èlkdo, who was culturaly Wareneese.

Climate

Mærîhi Heve has a yearly average temperature of 8°C (46°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold -10°C (14°F). Mærîhi Heve receives an average of 288 cm/y (113 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Mærîhi Heve covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 3544 m (11627 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Mærîhi Heve was founded durring the early 17th century in early fall of the year 1611, by Zeshêpî Èlkdo. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Mærîhi Heve was built using the conventions of Wareneese durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Mærîhi Heve 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.

Mærîhi Heve is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of spacious baked earthen streets which form triangular 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 posesses a fortified albit thin wall of querried stone. This wall posesses most of the features of a castle wall, though it is constructed from cheeper inferior stone. It would pose a minor chalange for an attacking army, though it's clear the wall's true purpose is to crush the hopes of bandits and marauders. The failry decent 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 Mærîhi Heve 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 town has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. Precisely how it has gained its wealth is a mystery. Mærîhi Heve is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Mærîhi Heve 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.

Mærîhi Heve 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.

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

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

Mærîhi Heve 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

Mærîhi Heve's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Mærîhi Heve there are no smells.

The Guardian Doll near Mærîhi Heve are known to be quite timid.

Mærîhi Heve's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Charm energies of tier 1 via proclamations.

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.

Mærîhi Heve Census Data: Year 2000

295 of Mærîhi Heve's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 66 work as Craftsmen
• 21 work as Merchants
• 46 work as Service Workers
• 29 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 45 work as Civil Servants
• 27 work in Cottage Industries
• 13 work as Artists
• 16 work in Produce Industries

666 of Mærîhi Heve's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 29 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Mærîhi Heve is cursed with recurrent spells of some troublesome disease. The affliction isn’t so fatal as to make living there impossible, but it adds suffering and expense to local lives. The plague might be the product of an ancient curse, the results of long lost toxic remains, or an unavoidable byproduct of whatever industry or purpose justifies the city. It’s probably not overly contagious, but visitors may be in some peril all the same.

Due to a magical anomaly, Mærîhi Heve is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

The the a notebook of Abjuration, an a notebook imbued with great amounts of Abjuration energies was created in Mærîhi Heve by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History