Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok (/tmink/ /dok/ [small; little; short; low; miniature] [platform]) is a temperate Large City located in the Ftuzmïtárg Principality of the Olatkana.

The name Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok is derived from the Sylvin language, as Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok was founded by Angharad, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok has a yearly average temperature of 3°C (37°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a freezing -5°C (23°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 12°C (53°F). Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok receives an average of 243 cm/y (95 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the long winter months. Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok covers an area of nearly 121 km² (48 mi²), and an average elevation of 1312 m (4304 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok was founded durring the early 13th century in spring of the year 1201, by Angharad. The establishment of Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Angharad struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok as a prison colony.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok is buildings are speckled and packed arround crampt packed earth streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the city'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 city. The city is defended by arcane means. It's hard to spot at first, but there's a tell tell shimmer in the air arround Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok, and you can spot the ocasional warding glyph carved into a rock or tree all arround town. These mystical defences are ancient, unknowable, and unassailable by current means... Assuming everything is in working order. Otherwise, the wards are little more than a deathtrap. Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's Relic of the World That Was are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the city as needed.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok has the unmistakable air of a city on its last legs. Everything is a bit slipshod and ramshackle. Everyone is at work, or drinking. No one has anything in their eyes other than fear and despair. Whatever industry once fueled Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok ’s existence has dried up and the city is drifting down the stream of history as it dries up. The locals seem to have responded to their slow downfall by recreating Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok as one of the strictest places imaginable. Everyone’s actions are clearly directed by laws they keep in heart and mind at all times. Orderly byond order is a phrase which the city brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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 Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's parks.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

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

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

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

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

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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. Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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 Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's natural decorations nor waterways.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok 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

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's garrison 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 skipped in Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok.

The Human Juju Zombie near Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves line dance to channel Mysticism energies of tier 1 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.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok Census Data: Year 2000

10796 of Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 601 work in Agriculture
• 2437 work as Craftsmen
• 867 work as Merchants
• 1642 work as Service Workers
• 1131 work as General Laborers
• 446 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1568 work as Civil Servants
• 967 work in Cottage Industries
• 587 work as Artists
• 550 work in Produce Industries

15733 of Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1996 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

While private tutelage of worthy apprentices can be had even in most remote villages, Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok is home to a proper school dedicated to teaching magic. Such schools are usually small, with no more than a few dozen pupils, most of whom will fail for lack of talent or discipline. The instructors are rarely first-rate, usually serving only for the pay and status, but sometimes a genius sorcerer will find a reason to observe likely apprentices here. Given the unfortunate accident potential of the school, it’s probably isolated or well-fortified.

Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok's roads were poorly made when first laid. Rather than repairing them correctly, a series of new roads was laid atop the old, leading to the streets of modern Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok suffering from potholes, cracking, and even sinkholes. The locals often repair the road by putting down wooden decking.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century after an anomalously snowy winter, runoff from snow-melt caused Pond Urpad to overflow its banks and spill into Backwater Flemdover. The resulting flood was isolated to the area around Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok, which was swallowed by the waters for several days. Slæ̈rn Mijotä-dok lost 249 people, 269 livestock, and 82 buildings in the disaster. The disaster is remembered as the Heartache Drownings.

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