Räz Däne Lÿhv

Räz Däne Lÿhv (/rɪ̘bb/ /lɪ̘v/ [permanent] [update]) is a subtropical Large City located in Lehghewvlåy Hold, Gÿtgesheyd Kingdom, within the Undermountain.

The name Räz Däne Lÿhv is derived from the Sylvin language, as Räz Däne Lÿhv was founded by Yaw̄y Jórmbó̄b 'Jojo Marissa' Sē̌sh Rē̄ Cú̄oīr, who was culturaly Undermountain.

Climate

Räz Däne Lÿhv has a yearly average temperature of 24°C (75°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 20°C (68°F). Räz Däne Lÿhv receives an average of 94 cm/y (37 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Räz Däne Lÿhv covers an area of nearly 159 km² (63 mi²), and an average elevation of 7262 m (-19124 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Räz Däne Lÿhv was founded durring the late 14th century in summer of the year 1283, by Yaw̄y Jórmbó̄b 'Jojo Marissa' Sē̌sh Rē̄ Cú̄oīr. The establishment of Räz Däne Lÿhv was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Yaw̄y Jórmbó̄b 'Jojo Marissa' Sē̌sh Rē̄ Cú̄oīr struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Räz Däne Lÿhv as a prison colony.

Räz Däne Lÿhv was built using the conventions of Undermountain durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Räz Däne Lÿhv is no diffrent. The city'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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv is buildings are arranged arround a network of crampt paverstone streets which form a grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city has a set of well fortified walls, with gatehouses, watch towers, battlments, and even a moat, which are fashioned from stone and timber. Räz Däne Lÿhv's walls are, howeaver, fashioned from stone and timber. While unorthadox, the design looks to be functional to a reasonable degree. With luck, the untested design will remain untested for years to come. Unfortuantly, these unusual though effective defenses are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Räz Däne Lÿhv is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city 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. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This city is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

Räz Däne Lÿhv possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

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

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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 Räz Däne Lÿhv. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Räz Däne Lÿhv's parks.

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

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

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

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

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

Räz Däne Lÿhv has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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. Räz Däne Lÿhv's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Räz Däne Lÿhv has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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 Räz Däne Lÿhv's natural decorations nor waterways.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv 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

Religious leaders are influential in almost any community, but in Räz Däne Lÿhv they make up the final authorities. It may be an explicit theocracy, with rule by the clerics of a particular faith, or a temple might be so important and powerful that the official leaders are helpless to resist its will. The locals can be expected to be loyal adherents to the faith, or else the less pious majority is deeply intimidated by the religion’s believers.

Räz Däne Lÿhv's chapel 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.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is short in Räz Däne Lÿhv.

The Blood Hawk near Räz Däne Lÿhv are known to be quite timid.

Räz Däne Lÿhv's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves performance art to channel Abjuration 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.

Räz Däne Lÿhv Census Data: Year 2000

14152 of Räz Däne Lÿhv's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 793 work in Agriculture
• 3125 work as Craftsmen
• 1158 work as Merchants
• 2252 work as Service Workers
• 1460 work as General Laborers
• 578 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2008 work as Civil Servants
• 1258 work in Cottage Industries
• 758 work as Artists
• 762 work in Produce Industries

21192 of Räz Däne Lÿhv's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2256 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Räz Däne Lÿhv's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

POI

History

The the a battleaxe of Necromancy, an a battleaxe imbued with great amounts of Necromancy energies was created near Räz Däne Lÿhv by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History