Yöz Ön Kez

Yöz Ön Kez (/jo˞z/ /o˞n/ [vibrant] [angle]) is a subtropical Town located in the Frömku District of the Federation of Alveria.

The name Yöz Ön Kez is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Yöz Ön Kez was founded by Èbêm Gunvrish, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Yöz Ön Kez has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 11°C (51°F). Yöz Ön Kez receives an average of 297 cm/y (116 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Yöz Ön Kez covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3484 m (11430 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Yöz Ön Kez was founded durring the early 13th century in fall of the year 1217, by Èbêm Gunvrish. The establishment of Yöz Ön Kez 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.

Yöz Ön Kez was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Yöz Ön Kez 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.

Yöz Ön Kez is is constructed arround a semi-circular premissive packed earth mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. 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 town's minimaly adiquite have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the town.

A look around Yöz Ön Kez gives you an uneasy feeling. 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 jsut 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.

Civic Infrastructure

Yöz Ön Kez has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Yöz Ön Kez.

Yöz Ön Kez 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.

Yöz Ön Kez has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Yöz Ön Kez 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.

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

Yöz Ön Kez possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Yöz Ön Kez has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Yöz Ön Kez 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

Yöz Ön Kez's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used has a sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation. The primary facade of its buildings often featured a series of set backs that create a stepped outline. Low-relief decorative panels can be found at entrances, around windows, along roof edges or as string courses. It was best known for its use of smooth finish building materials such as stucco, concrete block, glazed brick or mosaic tile. Decorative details can incorporate various artistic or exotic motifs to suit the building's function or the architect's whim. Chevrons, zigzags, and other geometrical motifs are common forms of ornament.

In Yöz Ön Kez hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Lizard near Yöz Ön Kez are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Yöz Ön Kez's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves ritual combat to channel Abjuration 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.

Yöz Ön Kez Census Data: Year 2000

381 of Yöz Ön Kez's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 84 work as Craftsmen
• 30 work as Merchants
• 62 work as Service Workers
• 35 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 55 work as Civil Servants
• 35 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

839 of Yöz Ön Kez's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 50 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Yöz Ön Kez 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.

Yöz Ön Kez's roads were poorly made when first laid. Rather than repairing them correctly, a series of new roads was laid atop the old, leading to the streets of modern Yöz Ön Kez suffering from potholes, cracking, and even sinkholes. The locals often repair the road by putting down wooden decking.

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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 Yöz Ön Kez. Yöz Ön Kez created a local delicacy in 's honor which is served at festivals.

History