Rëê-rëye Îè

Rëê-rëye Îè (/ˈrëɘ/ /ˈrëje/ [hay] [fungus]) is a temperate Large City located in the Tlauma County of the Union of Engineers.

The name Rëê-rëye Îè is derived from the Sylvin language, as Rëê-rëye Îè was founded by Snocthi, who was culturaly Iron Elvish.

Climate

Rëê-rëye Îè has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 23°C (73°F). Rëê-rëye Îè receives an average of 285 cm/y (112 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Rëê-rëye Îè covers an area of nearly 269 km² (107 mi²), and an average elevation of 1826 m (5990 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Rëê-rëye Îè was founded durring the late 15th century in fall of the year 1394, by Snocthi. The establishment of Rëê-rëye Îè was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Rëê-rëye Îè's construction back out of the project. Snocthi pushed on reguardles, and Rëê-rëye Îè was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Rëê-rëye Îè was built using the conventions of Iron Elvish durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of narrow flagstone streets which form octogonal 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 city has a set of well fortified walls, with gatehouses, watch towers, battlments, and even a moat, which are fashioned from stone and timber. Rëê-rëye Îè'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.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Rëê-rëye Îè, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same god, all preforming the same rituals to bless and anoint building,s streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holysymbols is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This city certainly loves its god.

Civic Infrastructure

Rëê-rëye Îè possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

Rëê-rëye Îè has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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 Rëê-rëye Îè. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Rëê-rëye Îè's parks.

Rëê-rëye Îè has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Rëê-rëye Îè.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

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

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

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

Rëê-rëye Îè has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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. Rëê-rëye Îè's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Rëê-rëye Îè's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Rëê-rëye Îè has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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 Rëê-rëye Îè's natural decorations nor waterways.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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.

Rëê-rëye Îè 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

Rëê-rëye Îè's town hall 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.

In Rëê-rëye Îè the water is caffeinated.

The Herd Animal, Stag near Rëê-rëye Îè are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Rëê-rëye Îè's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves sex to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 1 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Rëê-rëye Îè Census Data: Year 2000

23677 of Rëê-rëye Îè's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1290 work in Agriculture
• 5283 work as Craftsmen
• 1965 work as Merchants
• 3518 work as Service Workers
• 2472 work as General Laborers
• 975 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3536 work as Civil Servants
• 2019 work in Cottage Industries
• 1325 work as Artists
• 1294 work in Produce Industries

37139 of Rëê-rëye Îè's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2533 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Rëê-rëye Îè is surrounded by dangerous terrain: miasmatic swamps, perilous crevasses, radioactive badlands, a pocket of or some other harmful topography. Rëê-rëye Îè might prefer the defensive potential of the terrain here, or have found a precious resource worth the danger. The terrain might have formed at some time since the founding, with the citizens struggling to make terms with the new danger.

Rëê-rëye Îè's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century Mourning Mountain, an iconic vista located neare Rëê-rëye Îè, proved to be volcanic when the mountain erupted. The eruption was isolated to the area around Rëê-rëye Îè, which was swallowed in ash, lava flows, and pyroclastic gasses. Rëê-rëye Îè lost 189 people, 301 livestock, and 33 buildings in the disaster. The event is forever remembered as the Day of Mourning's Wrath.

History