Athê-dême Bî

Athê-dême Bî (/ˈaθɘ/ /ˈdɘme/ [adult] [metro]) is a temperate Town located in the Jajëhifitë Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Athê-dême Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Athê-dême Bî was founded by Trege Êyepî, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Athê-dême Bî has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 18°C (64°F). Athê-dême Bî receives an average of 256 cm/y (100 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Athê-dême Bî covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 2550 m (8366 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Athê-dême Bî was founded durring the late 10th century, by Trege Êyepî. The establishment of Athê-dême Bî suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Athê-dême Bî which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Athê-dême Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Athê-dême Bî is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Athê-dême Bî is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of restrictive cobblestone streets which form hexical 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 posesses a fortified albit thin wall of querried stone. This wall posesses most of the features of a castle wall, though it is constructed from cheeper inferior stone. It would pose a minor chalange for an attacking army, though it's clear the wall's true purpose is to crush the hopes of bandits and marauders. The town's failry decent fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the town's defences.

A look around Athê-dême Bî 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 just long enough for it to be uncomfortable. This all rests atop the unmistakable impression the town is 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 Athê-dême Bî brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

Athê-dême Bî 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 Athê-dême Bî. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Athê-dême Bî's parks.

Athê-dême Bî has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Athê-dême Bî.

Athê-dême Bî 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.

Athê-dême Bî 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.

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

Athê-dême Bî 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 Town. Athê-dême Bî's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Athê-dême Bî 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.

Athê-dême Bî 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 Athê-dême Bî's natural decorations nor waterways.

Athê-dême Bî 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.

Athê-dême Bî 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

Athê-dême Bî's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Athê-dême Bî all of the cats speak in a dead language.

The Howler near Athê-dême Bî are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Athê-dême Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves ritual combat to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 3 via singing.

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.

Athê-dême Bî Census Data: Year 2000

446 of Athê-dême Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 99 work as Craftsmen
• 34 work as Merchants
• 73 work as Service Workers
• 45 work as General Laborers
• 16 work as Skilled Laborers
• 65 work as Civil Servants
• 44 work in Cottage Industries
• 22 work as Artists
• 22 work in Produce Industries

866 of Athê-dême Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 98 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Some important ruler or leading figure resides in the community. This may be the seat of a regional lord, or it could be the traditional residence of a high priest, great magus, merchant house, or other wielder of influence. The community itself may or may not be under their direct control, but the wishes of the august figure must be acknowledged by the locals.

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History

The the a coin of Elven High Magic, an a coin imbued with great amounts of Elven High Magic energies was created near Athê-dême Bî by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History