Sêk-këyê Bî

Sêk-këyê Bî (/vɘˈisɘ/ /ˈkëjɘ/ [chaos] [side]) is a subtropical Town located in the Nëpimtrêsë Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Sêk-këyê Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Sêk-këyê Bî was founded by Me Brtheg̈, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Sêk-këyê Bî has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 21°C (69°F). Sêk-këyê Bî receives an average of 248 cm/y (97 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Sêk-këyê Bî covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4398 m (14429 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Sêk-këyê Bî was founded durring the late 11th century, by Me Brtheg̈. The establishment of Sêk-këyê Bî suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Sêk-këyê Bî which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Sêk-këyê Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Sêk-këyê 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.

Sêk-këyê Bî is buildings are speckled and packed arround spacious flagstone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a town. The town rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. The town's millitarily questionable fortifications 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.

Even the most brief look arround Sêk-këyê Bî has a good chance of putting a church or shrine into the center of your view. The town is most certainly a god fearing community. It’s also definitely a god loving community. THe streetcornors are occupied by preachers, with the occasional intersection playing host to an actually friendly debate relating to the merits of various gods. Even the less popular as well as the less politically loved gods seem to have a space in Sêk-këyê Bî, there’s even shrines to gods known to the region only through hearsay.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Sêk-këyê 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.

Sêk-këyê 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.

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

Sêk-këyê Bî possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Sêk-këyê 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 Sêk-këyê Bî's natural decorations nor waterways.

Sêk-këyê 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.

Sêk-këyê 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

Sêk-këyê Bî's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its buildings being predominantly formed through the combination of basic geometric shapes. However, it shown in the detailing given to the structures such as its characteristic tall columns, intricate detail, symmetry, harmony, and balance in their designs to an astonishing degree of precision. Decorative elements for the buildings tended to be built into the structure itself, making great use of fluting, frescoes, inlays, and embossing.

In Sêk-këyê Bî vermin leave small tokens in payment for food taken.

The Jack-o'-Lantern near Sêk-këyê Bî are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Sêk-këyê Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves creating small tokens to channel Charm energies of tier 3 via divine sermons.

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.

Sêk-këyê Bî Census Data: Year 2000

411 of Sêk-këyê Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 89 work as Craftsmen
• 32 work as Merchants
• 65 work as Service Workers
• 42 work as General Laborers
• 15 work as Skilled Laborers
• 57 work as Civil Servants
• 41 work in Cottage Industries
• 22 work as Artists
• 23 work in Produce Industries

845 of Sêk-këyê Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 94 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Sêk-këyê Bî has a conflict with a neighboring community. This usually isn't part of a larger war, but is instead a personal animosity between them. It may be the community has suffered at their enemy's hands, or they may have been the ones applying the suffering. Constant low-level skirmishes and trouble making go on between the two.

Sêk-këyê Bî is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

The the a javalin of Elven High Magic, an a javalin imbued with notable amounts of Elven High Magic energies was created near Sei Nesho Birěkhka by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History