Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri (/ˈvlekɛk/ /ˈntastrɛd/ [raw] [cake]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Wǟlwu Moot of the Rosid.

The name Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri is derived from the Goblin language, as Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri was founded by Ch́i̊k, who was culturaly Wood Elf.

Climate

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri has a yearly average temperature of 10°C (50°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -8°C (18°F). Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri receives an average of 179 cm/y (70 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri covers an area of nearly 58 km² (23 mi²), and an average elevation of 2634 m (8641 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri was founded durring the early 12th century in fall of the year 1111, by Ch́i̊k. The establishment of Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri was built using the conventions of Wood Elf durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of narrow baked earthen streets which form octogonal 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 city is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. The city's exceptionaly well made fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This city is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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 Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's parks.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

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

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

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

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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. Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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 Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's natural decorations nor waterways.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri 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

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri'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..

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is recurring in Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri.

The Thoqqua near Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves gestures to channel Charm energies of tier 3 via oratory performances.

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.

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri Census Data: Year 2000

5096 of Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 295 work in Agriculture
• 1145 work as Craftsmen
• 409 work as Merchants
• 776 work as Service Workers
• 518 work as General Laborers
• 206 work as Skilled Laborers
• 755 work as Civil Servants
• 449 work in Cottage Industries
• 276 work as Artists
• 267 work in Produce Industries

8197 of Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 411 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with wealth for a year and a day. One of Vlekëk Ntastrëd Gri's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History