Large Town: Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê
Example Iron Elven architecture.

State	Union of Engineers
Provence	Rëfiithe Zone
Region	Z̄omebeze Woodlands
Founded	680
Community Leader	City Manager Trtê Tresh Shèbm
Area	6 km² (2 mi²)
Average Yearly Temp	22°C (71°F)
Average Elevation	5850 m (19192 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation	199 cm/y (78 in/y)
Population	1590
Population Density	265 people per km² (795 people per mi²)
Town Aura	Abjuration
Naming
Native name	Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê
Pronunciation	/ˈrɪfɘ/ /ˈenɘ ˈfɪna/
Direct Translation	[weak; fragile] [landlord]
Translation	[Not Yet Translated]

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê (/ˈrɪfɘ/ /ˈenɘ ˈfɪna/ [weak; fragile] [landlord]) is a subtropical Large Town located in the Rëfiithe Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê was founded by Trtê Tresh, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 20°C (68°F). Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê receives an average of 199 cm/y (78 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 5850 m (19192 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê was founded in time immemorial, reportedly some time durring the late 8th century, by Trtê Tresh. The establishment of Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Trtê Tresh electing to pay people to resettle in Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 8th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê is buildings folow an organic layout of restrictive cobblestone 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. Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê'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 well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the town's defences.

A look around Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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 Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's parks.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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.

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

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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 Town. Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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 Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's natural decorations nor waterways.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê 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

The locals are in a state of despair and dull apathy. They've lost the things that used to give them pride and hope, with the best among them carrying on out of habitual duty and the worst giving ready hands to shameful deeds and ignoble acts. No one really believes the future can be better, and most seek only to satisfy immediate appetites.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's chapel 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..

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is long in Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê.

The Panda, Red near Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves ritual combat to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 3 via recitation of scripture.

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

Farmland: 6407 m²
Cattle and Similar Creatures: 397
Poultry: 4770
Swine: 318
Sheep: 15
Goats: 3
Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 159

Craftsmen

Arms and Toolmakers: 3
Blacksmiths: 3
Bookbinders: 2
Buckle-makers: 2
Cabinetmakers: 3
Candlemakers: 5
Carpenters: 5
Clothmakers: 4
Coach and Harness Makers: 1
Coopers: 4
Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 2
Copyists: 1
Cutlers: 1
Fabricworkers: 3
Farrier: 8
Furriers: 1
Glassworkers: 5
Gunsmiths: 3
Harness-Makers: 1
Hatters: 2
Hosiery Workers: 1
Jewelers: 1
Leatherwrights: 4
Locksmiths: 1
Matchstick makers: 2
Musical Instrument Makers: 2
Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 1
Paper Workers: 2
Plasterers: 2
Pursemakers: 2
Roofers: 1
Ropemakers: 1
Rugmakers: 1
Saddlers: 3
Scabbardmakers: 3
Scalemakers: 1
Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 1
Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 1
Shoemakers: 1
Soap and Tallow Workers: 5
Tailors: 9
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: 3
Chicken Butchers: 4
Entrepreneurs: 1
Fine Clothiers: 4
Fishmongers: 4
Potion Sellers: 2
Resellers: 7
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: 4
Housemaids: 9
House Stewards: 4
Inns: 1
Laundry maids: 2
Maidservants: 4
Nursery Maids: 2
Pastrycooks: 5
Restaurateur: 6
Tavern Keepers: 7

Specialized Laborer

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

Skilled Laborers

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

Civil Servants

Adventurers: 1
Bankers: 2
Civil Clerks: 3
Civic Iudex: 1
Consultants: 1
Exorcist: 3
Fixers: 1
Kami Clerk: 2
Landlords: 3
Lawyers: 1
Legend Keepers: 2
Militia Officers: 11
Monks, Monastic: 4
Monks, Civic: 5
Historian, Oral: 3
Historian, Textual: 1
Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 3
Priests: 7
Rangers: 2
Rat Catchers: 2
Scholars: 2
Spiritualist: 2
Storytellers: 5
Military Officers: 5

Cottage Industries

Brewers: 4
Comfort Services: 6
Enchanters: 1
Herbalists: 1
Jaminators: 5
Needleworkers: 5
Potters: 2
Preserve Makers: 4
Quilters: 2
Seamsters: 8
Spinners: 4
Tinker: 1
Weaver: 4

Artists

Actors: 1
Bards: 2
Dancers: 1
Drafters: 1
Engravers: 1
Glaziers: 1
Inlayers: 1
Musicians: 4
Playwrights: 1
Sculptors, Art: 1
Wood Carvers: 6
Writers: 5

Produce Industries

Butter Churners: 6
Canners: 5
Cheesmakers: 5
Millers: 3
Picklers: 2
Smokers: 2
Stockmakers: 1
Tobacconists: 2
Tallowmakers: 3

515 of Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

1012 of Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 63 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê was attacked by members of a peasant revolt. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê lost 252 people, 237 livestock, and 73 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 221, when members of Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's militia enacted an operation to destroy or capture a specific enemy general. The operation was complicated by a significant percentage of the militia choose to go abandon the operation and return home. The conflict ended with an assault and siege on the prison, which ended in a crushing defeat for Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Rîfê-enê Fîna Fêqê's bards, historians, and legend keepers.