Small City: Vame Dîche Kâchyâ

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ
Example Rattu architecture.

State	Warren
Provence	Mijgake Empire
Sub Provence	Khruktiumi Kingdom
Region	Ûyoqû Bala Moorland
Founded	1644
Community Leader	Lord Pa
Area	14 km² (5 mi²)
Average Yearly Temp	22°C (71°F)
Average Elevation	15108 m (6617 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation	137 cm/y (53 in/y)
Population	3318
Population Density	237 people per km² (663 people per mi²)
Town Aura	Augury
Naming
Native name	Vame Dîche Kâchyâ
Pronunciation	/ˈeba/ /ˈdɪːʧe/
Direct Translation	[popular] [stuff]
Translation	[Not Yet Translated]

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ (/ˈeba/ /ˈdɪːʧe/ [popular] [stuff]) is a subtropical Small City located in Khruktiumi Kingdom, Mijgake Empire, within the Warren.

The name Vame Dîche Kâchyâ is derived from the Sylvin language, as Vame Dîche Kâchyâ was founded by Lelva, who was culturaly Rattu.

Climate

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 14°C (57°F). Vame Dîche Kâchyâ receives an average of 137 cm/y (53 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Vame Dîche Kâchyâ covers an area of nearly 14 km² (5 mi²), and an average elevation of 15108 m (6617 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ was founded durring the early 17th century in early summer of the year 1644, by Lelva. The establishment of Vame Dîche Kâchyâ suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ was built using the conventions of Rattu durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Vame Dîche Kâchyâ is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ is is constructed arround a series of restrictive flagstone mainstreets which form concentric circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to each other at varrious points. The city emploies a series of defencive earthworks and fences to provide minimal protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's somewhat suffishent 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.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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 Vame Dîche Kâchyâ ’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 Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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 Vame Dîche Kâchyâ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's parks.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Vame Dîche Kâchyâ.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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.

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

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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 Small City. Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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 Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ 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

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's chapel 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 Vame Dîche Kâchyâ there is a constant smell of overcooked presumably ethnic food.

The Butterfly/Moth near Vame Dîche Kâchyâ are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves reenactments to channel Elven High Magic 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.

Agriculture

Dairy Farmers: 6
Farmers: 9
Farm Laborer: 14
Hunters: 12
Milk Maids: 8
Ranchers: 4
Ranch Hands: 9
Shepherds: 8

Farmland: 13371 m²
Cattle and Similar Creatures: 829
Poultry: 9954
Swine: 663
Sheep: 33
Goats: 6
Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 331

Craftsmen

Arms and Toolmakers: 6
Blacksmiths: 7
Bookbinders: 4
Buckle-makers: 4
Cabinetmakers: 7
Candlemakers: 12
Carpenters: 11
Clothmakers: 8
Coach and Harness Makers: 3
Coopers: 8
Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 4
Copyists: 3
Cutlers: 2
Fabricworkers: 7
Farrier: 16
Furriers: 2
Glassworkers: 12
Gunsmiths: 6
Harness-Makers: 3
Hatters: 6
Hosiery Workers: 2
Jewelers: 3
Leatherwrights: 8
Locksmiths: 3
Matchstick makers: 5
Musical Instrument Makers: 4
Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 4
Paper Workers: 5
Plasterers: 4
Pursemakers: 5
Roofers: 3
Ropemakers: 3
Rugmakers: 3
Saddlers: 6
Scabbardmakers: 7
Scalemakers: 3
Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 2
Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 3
Shoemakers: 3
Soap and Tallow Workers: 10
Tailors: 18
Tanners: 4
Upholsterers: 4
Watchmakers: 4
Weavers: 10
Whitesmiths: 2

Merchants

Adventuring Goods Retellers: 2
Arcana Sellers: 2
Beer-Sellers: 4
Booksellers: 5
Butchers: 8
Chandlers: 8
Chicken Butchers: 8
Entrepreneurs: 3
Fine Clothiers: 8
Fishmongers: 7
Florists: 1
Potion Sellers: 5
Resellers: 13
Spice Merchants: 4
Wine-sellers: 6
Wheelwright: 5
Woodsellers: 3

Service workers

Bakers: 14
Barbers: 17
Coachmen: 4
Cooks: 17
Doctors: 6
Gamekeepers: 5
Grooms: 2
Hairdressers: 10
Healers: 9
Housekeepers: 9
Housemaids: 15
House Stewards: 10
Inns: 3
Laundry maids: 5
Maidservants: 11
Nursery Maids: 5
Pastrycooks: 11
Restaurateur: 12
Tavern Keepers: 13

Specialized Laborer

Ashworkers: 4
Bleachers: 3
Chemical Workers: 1
Coal Heavers: 6
In-Town Couriers: 7
Long Haul Couriers: 7
Dockyard Workers: 7
Gas Workers: 1
Hay Merchants: 2
Leech Collectors: 9
Millers: 7
Miners: 7
Oilmen and Polishers: 5
Postmen: 8
Pure Finder: 4
Skinners: 10
Sugar Refiners: 1
Tosher: 4
Warehousemen: 12
Watercarriers: 7
Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 10

Skilled Laborers

Accountants: 4
Alchemist: 5
Clerk: 6
Dentists: 3
Educators: 8
Engineers: 5
Gardeners: 3
Mages: 2
Plumbers: 3
Pharmacist: 4
Professors: 1
Scientists: 2
Wizards: 1

Civil Servants

Adventurers: 3
Bankers: 4
Civil Clerks: 7
Civic Iudex: 3
Consultants: 2
Exorcist: 7
Fixers: 3
Kami Clerk: 6
Landlords: 6
Lawyers: 4
Legend Keepers: 5
Militia Officers: 25
Monks, Monastic: 9
Monks, Civic: 11
Historian, Oral: 7
Historian, Textual: 3
Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 8
Priests: 12
Rangers: 4
Rat Catchers: 4
Scholars: 5
Spiritualist: 6
Slayers: 1
Storytellers: 13
Military Officers: 11

Cottage Industries

Brewers: 10
Comfort Services: 12
Enchanters: 3
Herbalists: 3
Jaminators: 11
Needleworkers: 11
Potters: 5
Preserve Makers: 9
Quilters: 4
Seamsters: 19
Spinners: 9
Tinker: 3
Weaver: 8

Artists

Actors: 3
Architects: 1
Bards: 5
Costumers: 2
Dancers: 3
Drafters: 2
Engravers: 2
Fine Furniture Carpenters: 1
Glaziers: 3
Inlayers: 3
Musicians: 11
Painters, Art: 1
Playwrights: 3
Sculptors, Art: 2
Wood Carvers: 13
Writers: 11

Produce Industries

Butter Churners: 10
Canners: 9
Cheesmakers: 11
Ice Merchants: 1
Millers: 6
Picklers: 5
Smokers: 4
Stockmakers: 3
Tobacconists: 5
Tallowmakers: 7

1165 of Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

1988 of Vame Dîche Kâchyâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 165 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

History

Vame Dîche Kâchyâ is still bloodied by a recent violent conflict. A crushing bandit raid, a lost siege, getting caught at the periphery of a major battle, or some other calamity has inflicted severe damage on the place. Some communities may suffer a longer-term version of this, their youths lost in a grinding, endless battle against some perpetual threat.

The the a bowl of Necromancy, an a bowl imbued with notable amounts of Necromancy energies was created near Vame Dîche Kâchyâ by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.