Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez (/itvaˈzla/ /nəˈti/ [plain] [chemical]) is a subtropical Large Town located in Lîhi Mîyu County, Sipugehive Kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez is derived from the Dwarven language, as Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez was founded by Laerguldes Hub̄qug, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez has a yearly average temperature of 17°C (62°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 9°C (48°F). Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez receives an average of 107 cm/y (42 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 9374 m (-12195 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez was founded durring the early 10th century, by Laerguldes Hub̄qug. The establishment of Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Laerguldes Hub̄qug struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez as a prison colony.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the early 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez is buildings are arranged arround a network of crampt cobblestone streets which form a grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks, spikes, and fences to provide some protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. The minimaly adiquite 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 Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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 Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez long.

Civic Infrastructure

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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 Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez's parks.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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.

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

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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 Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez's natural decorations nor waterways.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez 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

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for its striking sculptural forms and often dazzling ornamental detail that characterizes the buildings general shape. The radiant colors, rich patterns, and symmetrical silhouettes employed by this style were backed up by rich decorative features including gardens, courtyards, extruded arches, domes, pointed domes, vaulted ceilings, elaborate painted and inlaid designs, and decorative sculptures.

Due to the actions of local Kami, winter is long in Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez.

The Plant-Imbued Ape near Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves sex to channel Abjuration energies of tier 2 via divine sermons.

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.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez Census Data: Year 2000

491 of Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 29 work in Agriculture
• 116 work as Craftsmen
• 40 work as Merchants
• 79 work as Service Workers
• 49 work as General Laborers
• 18 work as Skilled Laborers
• 68 work as Civil Servants
• 44 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 27 work in Produce Industries

1007 of Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 30 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Many of Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez’s structures date back to the ancient past and a long-vanished culture. They have unique architectural traits, perhaps being made of some strange substance or with uncanny qualities. The locals find them too useful or too durable to destroy, but the buildings often have unpleasant little surprises in their under-explored corners, and there may be greater structures still buried by long ages beneath Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez’s streets.

Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez experienced an impossibly long, cold, and stormy winter unlike anything seen before. The worst of the disaster struck The storm coated everything in a thick layer of ice and freezing countless animals, plants, and people to death. Yähåf Nätÿ Ckez lost 205 people, and 326 livestock in the disaster.. The disaster is remembered as the Loss Screams, after the sounds of the winds.

History