Large Town: Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî
Example Iron Elven architecture.

State	Union of Engineers
Provence	Ineg̈èsho Zone
Region	Lajuca Lojapukaqu Woods
Founded	1122
Community Leader	City Manager Sheg̈ Êyêm
Area	7 km² (2 mi²)
Average Yearly Temp	27°C (80°F)
Average Elevation	2020 m (6627 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation	286 cm/y (112 in/y)
Population	1733
Population Density	247 people per km² (866 people per mi²)
Town Aura	Necromancy
Naming
Native name	Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî
Pronunciation	/zɘ/ /iˈhɪkɘ èˈjɘco/
Direct Translation	[green] [dentist]
Translation	[Not Yet Translated]

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî (/zɘ/ /iˈhɪkɘ èˈjɘco/ [green] [dentist]) is a subtropical Large Town located in the Ineg̈èsho Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî was founded by Zelëd Zlêbm, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî has a yearly average temperature of 27°C (80°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 25°C (77°F). Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî receives an average of 286 cm/y (112 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî covers an area of nearly 7 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 2020 m (6627 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî was founded durring the early 12th century in fall of the year 1122, by Zelëd Zlêbm. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî is buildings folow an organic layout of spacious canals streets whihch gives the town a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The town sits behind an impressive looking clay brick wall. The wall is notable for querried stone blocks being used to renforce the clay bricks in the expected manner and locations. While the wall was built to the exact specifications of modern fortifications, one has to wonder why the money invested into creating such a well fortified wall wasnt spent on a less impressive looking wall crated from sturdier materials. Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's walls would endure a brief bombardment, but only from light siege weapons. It seems more likly the town's walls were not designed with defence in mind but rather lending the town a certain air with visitors. The town's boondoggle-of-a-fortified wall are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the towns defences.

Right off the bat Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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 Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's parks.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

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

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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 Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's natural decorations nor waterways.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Cultural Notes

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî 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.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's town hall 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..

The Ice Elemental, Medium near Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves reenactments to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 3 via oath swearing.

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.

Agriculture

Dairy Farmers: 3
Farmers: 5
Farm Laborer: 8
Hunters: 5
Milk Maids: 4
Ranchers: 2
Ranch Hands: 4
Shepherds: 4

Farmland: 6966 m²
Cattle and Similar Creatures: 433
Poultry: 5199
Swine: 346
Sheep: 17
Goats: 3
Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 173

Craftsmen

Arms and Toolmakers: 3
Blacksmiths: 3
Bookbinders: 2
Buckle-makers: 2
Cabinetmakers: 4
Candlemakers: 5
Carpenters: 6
Clothmakers: 4
Coach and Harness Makers: 1
Coopers: 4
Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 2
Copyists: 1
Cutlers: 1
Fabricworkers: 3
Farrier: 13
Furriers: 1
Glassworkers: 6
Gunsmiths: 3
Harness-Makers: 1
Hatters: 3
Hosiery Workers: 1
Jewelers: 1
Leatherwrights: 4
Locksmiths: 1
Matchstick makers: 2
Musical Instrument Makers: 2
Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 2
Paper Workers: 2
Plasterers: 2
Pursemakers: 2
Roofers: 1
Ropemakers: 1
Rugmakers: 1
Saddlers: 3
Scabbardmakers: 4
Scalemakers: 1
Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 1
Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 1
Shoemakers: 1
Soap and Tallow Workers: 7
Tailors: 11
Tanners: 2
Upholsterers: 2
Watchmakers: 2
Weavers: 4
Whitesmiths: 1

Merchants

Adventuring Goods Retellers: 1
Arcana Sellers: 1
Beer-Sellers: 2
Booksellers: 2
Butchers: 4
Chandlers: 4
Chicken Butchers: 5
Entrepreneurs: 1
Fine Clothiers: 4
Fishmongers: 4
Florists: 1
Potion Sellers: 2
Resellers: 5
Spice Merchants: 2
Wine-sellers: 3
Wheelwright: 2
Woodsellers: 1

Service workers

Bakers: 10
Barbers: 7
Coachmen: 2
Cooks: 6
Doctors: 3
Gamekeepers: 2
Grooms: 1
Hairdressers: 5
Healers: 4
Housekeepers: 5
Housemaids: 10
House Stewards: 5
Inns: 1
Laundry maids: 3
Maidservants: 5
Nursery Maids: 3
Pastrycooks: 5
Restaurateur: 7
Tavern Keepers: 7

Specialized Laborer

Ashworkers: 2
Bleachers: 1
Coal Heavers: 3
In-Town Couriers: 3
Long Haul Couriers: 4
Dockyard Workers: 3
Hay Merchants: 1
Leech Collectors: 4
Millers: 3
Miners: 3
Oilmen and Polishers: 2
Postmen: 3
Pure Finder: 2
Skinners: 5
Sugar Refiners: 1
Tosher: 2
Warehousemen: 5
Watercarriers: 3
Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 5

Skilled Laborers

Accountants: 2
Alchemist: 2
Clerk: 3
Dentists: 1
Educators: 4
Engineers: 2
Gardeners: 1
Mages: 1
Plumbers: 1
Pharmacist: 2
Scientists: 1

Civil Servants

Adventurers: 1
Bankers: 2
Civil Clerks: 3
Civic Iudex: 1
Consultants: 1
Exorcist: 4
Fixers: 2
Kami Clerk: 3
Landlords: 3
Lawyers: 2
Legend Keepers: 2
Militia Officers: 11
Monks, Monastic: 5
Monks, Civic: 5
Historian, Oral: 4
Historian, Textual: 2
Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 3
Priests: 6
Rangers: 2
Rat Catchers: 2
Scholars: 2
Spiritualist: 3
Storytellers: 5
Military Officers: 6

Cottage Industries

Brewers: 4
Comfort Services: 6
Enchanters: 1
Herbalists: 1
Jaminators: 5
Needleworkers: 6
Potters: 2
Preserve Makers: 5
Quilters: 2
Seamsters: 9
Spinners: 4
Tinker: 1
Weaver: 4

Artists

Actors: 1
Bards: 2
Costumers: 1
Dancers: 1
Drafters: 1
Engravers: 1
Glaziers: 1
Inlayers: 1
Musicians: 4
Playwrights: 1
Sculptors, Art: 1
Wood Carvers: 5
Writers: 5

Produce Industries

Butter Churners: 5
Canners: 4
Cheesmakers: 5
Millers: 3
Picklers: 2
Smokers: 2
Stockmakers: 2
Tobacconists: 2
Tallowmakers: 4

556 of Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

1039 of Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 138 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî is known for its well built pedestrian paths, which include foot bridges to cross the main street at several high-traffic areas.

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî was attacked by soldiers from another nation, waging a greater campaign. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî lost 112 people, 380 livestock, and 42 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 89, when members of Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's militia enacted an operation to destroy or capture a specific enemy hero. The operation was complicated by the officer in charge of Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's forces was incompetent, and issue many foolish and-or unprofessional orders. The conflict ended with an assault and siege on the temple, which ended in a crushing defeat for Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Rio-ihîkê Èyêco Bî's bards, historians, and legend keepers.