Rá̋b Dery Kēä

Rá̋b Dery Kēä (/ɹɛ̋b/ /dɜ̌ːiː/ [sophisticated] [shame; stigma]) is a subtropical Town located in the Jǎlēyeēy Region of the Confederation of Goblin Tribes.

The name Rá̋b Dery Kēä is derived from the Goblin language, as Rá̋b Dery Kēä was founded by Joida̋s Yākīy 'Nadia Belle' Méoúch Sēnḱ Vú̄̋ch Bé̄kīb Mp̪féch, who was culturaly Goblin.

Climate

Rá̋b Dery Kēä has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Rá̋b Dery Kēä receives an average of 283 cm/y (111 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Rá̋b Dery Kēä covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1214 m (3982 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Rá̋b Dery Kēä was founded durring the early 9th century, by Joida̋s Yākīy 'Nadia Belle' Méoúch Sēnḱ Vú̄̋ch Bé̄kīb Mp̪féch. The establishment of Rá̋b Dery Kēä suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Rá̋b Dery Kēä which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Rá̋b Dery Kēä was built using the conventions of Goblin durring the early 9th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Rá̋b Dery Kēä 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.

Rá̋b Dery Kēä is buildings are built arround a single restrictive paverstone mainstreet which forms a counterclockwise spiral to give the town a over all circular shape. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks and fences to provide minimal protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Rá̋b Dery Kēä's somewhat suffishent are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the town as needed.

A look around Rá̋b Dery Kēä is like a look into a broken heart. There is no planning, no organization. Everyone here clearly goes about their own thing with little thought to anyone around them who isn’t selling something they need. It’s not malicious. Heads are hung. Eyes are empty. Something truly horrible happened here once upon a time and the town never healed.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Rá̋b Dery Kēä 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.

Rá̋b Dery Kēä 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.

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

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

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

Rá̋b Dery Kēä 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

Rá̋b Dery Kēä has a long tradition of martial expertise. This may be a crisply-organized history of skilled native levies, or it may be a natural belligerence in the people that leaves them familiar with bloodshed. While their neighbors and liege doubtless respect their talents, this very aptitude might make them more willing to turn to steel than prudence would advise.

Rá̋b Dery Kēä's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

Due to the actions of local Kami, winter is skipped in Rá̋b Dery Kēä.

The Bat Swarm, Underworld near Rá̋b Dery Kēä are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Rá̋b Dery Kēä'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 Invocation energies of tier 1 via chanting.

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.

Rá̋b Dery Kēä Census Data: Year 2000

358 of Rá̋b Dery Kēä's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 80 work as Craftsmen
• 26 work as Merchants
• 61 work as Service Workers
• 33 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 54 work as Civil Servants
• 33 work in Cottage Industries
• 16 work as Artists
• 18 work in Produce Industries

791 of Rá̋b Dery Kēä's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 35 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

The roads leading into Rá̋b Dery Kēä possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a most peculiar disaster struck Rá̋b Dery Kēä, causing great chunks of ice to fall from the sky. Rá̋b Dery Kēä lost 109 people, 105 livestock, and 79 buildings in the disaster.. The ice rain is generally remembered as the Ill Tides Rain.

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