Vablêth-ësa Bî

Vablêth-ësa Bî (/ˈèp˔i/ /ˈësa/ [quiet; shy] [niche]) is a subtropical Town located in the Qíithtathê Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Vablêth-ësa Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Vablêth-ësa Bî was founded by Scarab Beetle Swarm Tsîrtèj, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Vablêth-ësa 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). Vablêth-ësa Bî receives an average of 245 cm/y (96 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Vablêth-ësa Bî covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 2616 m (8582 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Vablêth-ësa Bî was founded durring the late 16th century in fall of the year 1556, by Scarab Beetle Swarm Tsîrtèj. The establishment of Vablêth-ësa Bî was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Vablêth-ësa Bî's construction back out of the project. Scarab Beetle Swarm Tsîrtèj pushed on reguardles, and Vablêth-ësa Bî was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Vablêth-ësa Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Vablêth-ësa 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.

Vablêth-ësa Bî is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of narrow packed earth streets which form triangular paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The town sits comfortably behind a palisade wall complete with a timber gatehouse and battlments. Unfortuantly, these timber-based walls are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Vablêth-ësa Bî is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Vablêth-ësa 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.

Vablêth-ësa 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.

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

Vablêth-ësa Bî has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Vablêth-ësa 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.

Cultural Notes

Vablêth-ësa Bî's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Vablêth-ësa Bî there is always just enough rain to be annoying.

The Psyche Serpent near Vablêth-ësa Bî are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Vablêth-ësa Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves bloodletting to channel Abjuration energies of tier 1 via throat singing.

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.

Vablêth-ësa Bî Census Data: Year 2000

331 of Vablêth-ësa Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 74 work as Craftsmen
• 25 work as Merchants
• 55 work as Service Workers
• 31 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 49 work as Civil Servants
• 33 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

774 of Vablêth-ësa Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 22 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Vablêth-ësa Bî produces something unique, a good or service that cannot be had anywhere else in the kingdom. This may be due to some unique resource found only there, or some carefully-guarded craft, or it may be a special service that can only be provided by the locals, who are somehow unique in their forms or abilities.

The roads leading into Vablêth-ësa Bî possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of slew a monster which had been terrorizing the streets of Vablêth-ësa Bî. was immortalized in song for this deed.

History