Odíhg Kríhtoyày

Odíhg Kríhtoyày (Kríhto /jəj/ [lens] [light]) is a subtropical Town located in Highmerrow Dutchy, Vùjluwo Provence, within the Dalandic Empire.

The name Odíhg Kríhtoyày is derived from the Tauric language, as Odíhg Kríhtoyày was founded by Èbêm Qíhgā, who was culturaly Tauric.

Climate

Odíhg Kríhtoyày has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 19°C (66°F). Odíhg Kríhtoyày receives an average of 186 cm/y (73 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Odíhg Kríhtoyày covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 9858 m (-10607 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Odíhg Kríhtoyày was founded durring the early 15th century in fall of the year 1406, by Èbêm Qíhgā. The establishment of Odíhg Kríhtoyày was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Èbêm Qíhgā struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Odíhg Kríhtoyày as a prison colony.

Odíhg Kríhtoyày was built using the conventions of Tauric durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Odíhg Kríhtoyày is no diffrent. The town'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.

Odíhg Kríhtoyày is was constructed arround several narrow flagstone mainstreets which cross one another at certain axies, with smaller streets branching off of them to premit acess to the many buildings deeper into the road network. The overall fashion is remenessent of a circulatory system, or other organic construct, and is quite effishent in its design. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks and fences to provide minimal protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Astonishigly, the somewhat suffishent are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

Right off the bat Odíhg Kríhtoyày 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. It’s easy to see where their wealth comes from the more you look arround. Every aspect of the town has been developed with care and great thought. The people themselves act deliberately and with care in even the simplest of daily actions.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Odíhg Kríhtoyày 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.

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

Odíhg Kríhtoyày 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.

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

Odíhg Kríhtoyày possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

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

Odíhg Kríhtoyày 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

Odíhg Kríhtoyày's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Odíhg Kríhtoyày 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 Rat near Odíhg Kríhtoyày are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Odíhg Kríhtoyày's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Mysticism energies of tier 3 via recitation of poetic epics.

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.

Odíhg Kríhtoyày Census Data: Year 2000

336 of Odíhg Kríhtoyày's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 23 work in Agriculture
• 74 work as Craftsmen
• 25 work as Merchants
• 54 work as Service Workers
• 34 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 50 work as Civil Servants
• 31 work in Cottage Industries
• 16 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

672 of Odíhg Kríhtoyày's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 87 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Odíhg Kríhtoyày 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.

Odíhg Kríhtoyày is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

The the a coat of plates of Illusion, an a coat of plates imbued with potent amounts of Illusion energies was created in Odíhg Kríhikobji by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History