Ræ Agà Mudâ

Ræ Agà Mudâ (/ræ/ /ˈagə/ [teal] [vinegar]) is a temperate Large City located in Kadàchæ Bus̺u̹ Kingdom, Sopetjer County, within the Warrenese Shogunate.

The name Ræ Agà Mudâ is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Ræ Agà Mudâ was founded by H́i̊th, who was culturaly Warrenese.

Climate

Ræ Agà Mudâ has a yearly average temperature of 9°C (48°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -9°C (16°F). Ræ Agà Mudâ receives an average of 319 cm/y (125 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Ræ Agà Mudâ covers an area of nearly 267 km² (106 mi²), and an average elevation of 4580 m (15026 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ræ Agà Mudâ was founded durring the early 16th century in spring of the year 1546, by H́i̊th. The establishment of Ræ Agà Mudâ was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed H́i̊th struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Ræ Agà Mudâ as a prison colony.

Ræ Agà Mudâ was built using the conventions of Warrenese durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ræ Agà Mudâ is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Ræ Agà Mudâ is is constructed arround a series of restrictive baked earthen mainstreets which form concentric circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to each other at varrious points. The city is the proud owner of a proper castle-style stone wall complete with all of the trimmings. It has towers, a moat, gatehouses, drawbridges, and even merticulationsshortsizeleadershipname.. The perhapse unnessisarily well built defences has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

Right off the bat Ræ Agà Mudâ 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. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. The influx of wealth has brought with it an influx of relaxation. Everywhere you look people are enjoying their prosperity in a slow, casual, and deliberate manner. There’s no rush for anything anywhere you look.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Ræ Agà Mudâ has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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 Ræ Agà Mudâ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Ræ Agà Mudâ's parks.

Ræ Agà Mudâ has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Ræ Agà Mudâ.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

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

Ræ Agà Mudâ has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

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

Ræ Agà Mudâ has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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. Ræ Agà Mudâ's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Ræ Agà Mudâ's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Ræ Agà Mudâ has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Ræ Agà Mudâ has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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 Ræ Agà Mudâ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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.

Ræ Agà Mudâ 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

Ræ Agà Mudâ's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is based upon new and innovative technologies of construction and the idea that form should follow function. It was an embrace of minimalism and a rejection of ornament. The style became characterized by an emphasis on volume, asymmetrical compositions, and minimal ornamentation..

In Ræ Agà Mudâ hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Skinstitch near Ræ Agà Mudâ are known to be quite timid.

Ræ Agà Mudâ's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves creating small tokens to channel Augury energies of tier 2 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.

Ræ Agà Mudâ Census Data: Year 2000

24073 of Ræ Agà Mudâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1241 work in Agriculture
• 5267 work as Craftsmen
• 1918 work as Merchants
• 3694 work as Service Workers
• 2418 work as General Laborers
• 985 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3786 work as Civil Servants
• 2123 work in Cottage Industries
• 1362 work as Artists
• 1279 work in Produce Industries

34153 of Ræ Agà Mudâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 5063 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ræ Agà Mudâ was unknowingly built atop something unstable, and now that substrate is crumbling. It may be swampy ground or a decaying coastline, or it could be an ancient buried city that’s now giving way. In the case of some antique habitation, the denizens that once lived there might be boiling upward as their home is collapsing, or new opportunities may be revealed even as the community’s present structure is ruined.

Ræ Agà Mudâ's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century an unusualy harsh winter spawned a deadly blizard to Ræ Agà Mudâ. The ice, snow, and wind killed 231 people, 395 livestock, and destroyed 29. The event is remembered as Heartache's Breath.

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