Xer-hixt Rudnoplu

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu (/xer/ /hixt/ [will] [community]) is a temperate Town located in the Áärvconks Principality of the City-state of Shayeli.

The name Xer-hixt Rudnoplu is derived from the Gnollish language, as Xer-hixt Rudnoplu was founded by Uirneth vyim Mɑnkʤine, who was culturaly Gnollish.

Climate

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu has a yearly average temperature of 2°C (35°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 22°C (71°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool -18°C (0°F). Xer-hixt Rudnoplu receives an average of 168 cm/y (66 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Xer-hixt Rudnoplu covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 2470 m (8103 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu was founded durring the early 12th century in summer of the year 1149, by Uirneth vyim Mɑnkʤine. The establishment of Xer-hixt Rudnoplu suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Xer-hixt Rudnoplu which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu was built using the conventions of Gnollish durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Xer-hixt Rudnoplu 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.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of narrow flagstone 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 resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The robustly designed timber walls has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

A look around Xer-hixt Rudnoplu has something terribly wrong with it. It’s impossible to put one’s finger on, but something is horribly wrong. Maybe it’s the way fog blankets the ground, but only in the connors of places. Maybe it’s the vermin scuttling between shadows in the corner of your eyes. Perhaps it’s the overcast sky which seemed to creep out of nowhere, or the distant howling of wolves. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring just long enough for it to be uncomfortable. 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. Regardless, you do not feel it would be wise to remain in Xer-hixt Rudnoplu long.

Civic Infrastructure

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Xer-hixt Rudnoplu.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu 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.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu 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.

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

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu 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

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Xer-hixt Rudnoplu the utterance of expletives is impossible within city limits. This has changed as the limits have changed, but has not kept up with slang, or swearing in foreign languages.

The Silver Bells near Xer-hixt Rudnoplu are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves gestures to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 1 via moments of science.

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.

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu Census Data: Year 2000

329 of Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 23 work in Agriculture
• 75 work as Craftsmen
• 25 work as Merchants
• 52 work as Service Workers
• 31 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 48 work as Civil Servants
• 31 work in Cottage Industries
• 15 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

639 of Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 84 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Xer-hixt Rudnoplu 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.

Due to a magical anomaly, Xer-hixt Rudnoplu is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Xer-hixt Rudnoplu was attacked by soldiers from another nation, with orders to raid Xer-hixt Rudnoplu. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Xer-hixt Rudnoplu lost 217 people, 146 livestock, and 68 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 67, when members of Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's militia enacted an operation to secure a particular research site to utilize it for a specific task. The operation was complicated by a trusted officer who turned traitor and defects. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in a stalemate for Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Xer-hixt Rudnoplu's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

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